Nikesh Arora
CEO of Palo Alto Networks, known for articulating the 'profit pools' framework for cybersecurity TAM analysis.
“We had the CEO of Nikesh of Palo Alto Networks who said, hey, Mythos was the real deal and that they used it to seal up some vulnerabilities inside their shop.”
Source→“I have 5,000 people who talk to customers. My failure mode is when 5,000 people do different things... So now you can get 5,000 people to act almost consistently in their interactions with people on the other side.”
Source→“In 6 weeks we found vulnerabilities which would have normally taken us 5 to 7 years to find.”
Source→“There's a very rare kind of personality profile of someone that's willing to take risk and take ownership of something that wasn't theirs in the first place and they make it theirs. And it's an extraordinarily unique trait. Far more unique actually than being a scalable founder.”
Source→“Back to Nikesh's framework on profit pools, I think the Starlink profit pool is the telco global profit pool of broadband and wireless.”
Source→“Legora (AI for lawyers) raised $50M in a Series D extension at a $5.6B post-money valuation, bringing its total raise to $600M. New backers include Atlassian, Barclays, Nikesh Arora.”
“Nikesh Arora joining GC's board as lead independent director”
“Nikesh is incredibly brilliant. He's an entrepreneurial soul running a Fortune 500 company. He's also a great investor mind... Every one of those conversations is extremely provocative.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.