Episode
32
Amir Ben-Efraim, Co-founder of Menlo Security - A Mission to 100% Eliminate Malware
Released August 2, 2021
"The combination of technology and business is what makes an entrepreneur." - Amir Ben-Efraim
Menlo was founded, in part, because five cybersecurity experts were fed up. Security products should stop bad things from happening 鈥 but they didn鈥檛.
Founding his second company on the premise of 鈥淗ey, we can do better鈥 has taken this entrepreneur all the way to validation in Gartner鈥檚 Magic Quadrant within a decade. Discover lessons learned from the acquisition of Amir's first company and the wild success of his second one.
Other topics discussed:
鈥 Menlo Security鈥檚 origin story
鈥 The balance of business and technology in entrepreneurship
鈥 What Amir learned from founding Altor
鈥 Validation from Gartner and tracking the competition