Newcomer Podcast
Newcomer Podcast
Podcast Description
A podcast about Silicon Valley, hosted by newsletter writer and independent journalist Eric Newcomer. Listen in for interviews with the dealmakers and builders who matter. Subscribe to newcomer.co for summaries of the episodes plus tech industry news, scoops, and analysis. www.newcomer.co
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The podcast focuses on technology and venture capital, with themes including AI advancements, Silicon Valley's political dynamics, and startup funding trends. Episodes dive into specific issues such as the implications of AI policy under different administrations, the performance of venture capital after market shifts, and the ramifications of major company investments like ServiceTitan's IPO and Google's quantum breakthroughs.
Hi, I’m Eric Newcomer. With this podcast, I dive straight into the heart of the tech industry, interviewing top investors and founders. I’m bringing my sensibility as someone who understands the inside story of Silicon Valley but who is happy to poke and prod as to why the tech world operates like it does.
If you want first-person and insider information delivered to your newsletter, subscribe to my podcast at newcomer.co on Substack.
The CEO of a $4 billion compliance company on how her biggest competitor was faking it, and what that means for AI startup culture.
Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO of Vanta, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about the scandal that shook the compliance world. Her $4 billion competitor Delve was caught pre-filling compliance reports without doing the actual security work — and customers had no idea. Christina explains how Vanta figured it out, why fake compliance is a better product experience than real compliance, and what happened to Delve's customers after the story broke.
The conversation also covers the AI hype cycle and whether it is crypto 2.0, why AI is both the biggest threat and biggest tailwind for security companies, the broken VC equity social contract, and what it really takes to build a $4 billion company without losing sight of the fundamentals.
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