Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #20
Community Power, Rise of the AI Engineer and the Oasis at Black Hat
Welcome to Community-Led. Each week we connect founders to dozens of early adopters and technology executives in fast growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. This newsletter surfaces the most interesting insights and conversations across the thousands of members of the Decibel community. Let’s dive in!
Innovation continues to magnify and exponentially enable the power of communities and, as an early adopter, you are positioned to take immediate advantage of this power. By leveraging your company’s scale, and that of your peers, you can unleash security, development and design opportunities (and more)!
By bringing together two communities Penpot (the first open-source design & prototyping tool for Product teams) enables full collaboration between designers and developers.
In security, there are several examples of community leverage including Push Security (discover saas sprawl and enable employees to help) and Sublime Security (crowdsourced detection and response rules to block phishing attacks).
And there are daily (!) examples of the power of the Latent Space community (co-hosted by my partner, Alessio). Over the weekend @Alessio and @Swyx held an “emergency” Latent Space live to discuss the new @OpenAI Code Interpreter and over 2,000 members of the community attended!
The Watercooler: What we’re hearing in the Community
Decibel Community Events
The Decibel Oasis is back at Black Hat! Join us for a CISO lunch and/or Security Founder Oasis cocktail party - co-hosted by Jon Oberheide (founder of Duo), Caleb Sima (CISO of Robinhood & Databricks), and Jon Sakoda (founder of Decibel). Reach out to me for invites and event logistics as we would love to see you in Vegas. 🎉
First Look - Sublime Security
“We believe that when everyone’s in on the fight, we’re more likely to win. And we plan on winning.” Josh Kamdjou, Founder & CEO of Sublime Security
Our early adopter CISOs and threat detection engineers who got first looks have been blown away by the power of this open platform! Sublime Security is the first open and community-powered email security platform that lets anyone write, run, and share rules to detect and block email threats.
Just as the InfoSec community already uses DSLs for detection and response in all other areas of security: YARA for binaries, Snort/Suricata for packets, osquery/EDR for endpoint, Sigma/EQL for logs - now there’s Sublime for email! Try it for free. 🚀
Decibel Friends and Family Update
🎉 Congratulations…
Myke Lyons takes the helm as CISO at Snyk
Howie Xu transitions to SVP, Engineering and AI/ML at Palo Alto Networks
Sagar Mehta appointed as CTO at OpenTable
Biswa Panda joins as CDO at AppOmni
Grace Francisco now CMO at Pangea
Dan Weinberg moves to VP Americas Sales at Airtable
See you next time.
Thanks for reading. This is a community that you’re always welcome to add to. If you have any feedback or know a story that’s perfect for this newsletter, please reach out. Email me at Stacey@Decibel.vc.
Stacey