Speakers in the public record
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belief 7evaluation 6preference 4commitment 2
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19 published records
“I deeply, deeply believe that we're doing something super special in Wiz, and I think the company is in such an interesting place of hyperscaling, but still keeping that authentic, and I think, flat and enabling culture.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We'd love great people who are learners, which I think is what this podcast is all about.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I can share, that I think for us, us being the founding team, the employees, the customers, the board, staying on an independent path, we all really believe that Wiz can become one of the biggest security companies in the world.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“In some ways, I do think it has to do with, I think the way my mom raised me, my mom really believed that if you're good at something, so that's not where you should invest your energy.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“If you think about trying to go to an interview for a company, and you start thinking, "Oh no, I won't get accepted, they won't take me," perfect.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think The Wire is the best show ever created. I will take that fight with anybody.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" I think naturally, as human beings, you have a bias to look for affirmation, versus a bias for what you don't want to hear.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“At some point, of every product, people start looking really heavily at brand, whether we think that way, or we don't.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think, for example, in our domain, it's very, almost custom, to talk in a lot of initials, and a lot of things in security are, "Use initials for them.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Now you bring in sales, and the heat moves to sales, because they're like, "Okay, we have this thing, now go sell it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I really, by understanding the go to market perspective, and the user perspective, and the seller perspective, I suddenly understood how things that can look simple on the inside of that side, are very complex, when you cross over to the go to market side. And I think learning the difference is so, so important for product people to understand, that they have to deliver those crystal clear messages about the product.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We were at this stage where, yes, if there was a POV, a proof of value happening, we would win it, versus competition. But many times, we would come to a customer, and they would be like, "Oh, I wish we heard of Wiz, we just signed with a competitor," which it breaks your heart, because I know they would have chosen me, had they heard about me in time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I also think that one of the things we did very, almost uniquely, it was, was that, because things started rolling so fast for us, once we found the right path, we ended up selling before we had a seller's team.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“They're not incentivized to really dig, deep dive into the problems, right? So I think that opened up a discussion for us, and we kind of understood that we were listening in the wrong way, maybe, that we were looking for positive reinforcements, but not really listening intently to signs of deep enthusiasm, and that ended up pivoting us around to cloud security.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I have to say, I think the feeling, after we made that switch, what ended up happening is that after that big conversation that we know, I don't understand, we ended up having, and this never happens, I don't think it's ever happened since.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“If I think I'm going to fail with anything, I'm like, "Okay, whatever, I'll try," and I think over time, yeah, it releases you a bit.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“If you decide to build a feature in a product, then A, you're taking engineering time, which is the most valuable resource in every company, in my opinion, and B, in some ways, you can never take it back.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Six weeks after you joined, there was a pivot. So the fact that that was true, and you went from this, "This isn't working," to boom, $100 million dollars AR, I want to spend some time here, because I think there's a lot people can learn here.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Sometimes, it's hard to get the courage to say, "Actually, I don't understand." But I think by now, in my career, it's my favorite question.”
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- Lenny's Podcast