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Idan Tendler, SVP of Application Security at Palo Alto Networks, on Nailing Go-To-Market and Learning From Mistakes

2023/3/23
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Idan Tendler分享了他两次创业的经验和教训，第一次创业Fortscale由于缺乏产品市场匹配、过度关注技术、以及将公司定位为被收购对象而最终以相对失败告终。第二次创业BridgeCrew，他吸取了之前的教训，将一半的时间和精力投入到市场营销和销售策略中，并通过开源项目Checkov成功地获得了数百万开发者用户，最终被Palo Alto Networks收购。他认为成功的关键在于产品市场匹配、有效的市场营销策略以及建立一个健康的业务，而非仅仅为了被收购。他还分享了他对收购的看法，强调文化契合度和团队融合的重要性。 此外，Idan还介绍了他的非营利性项目Place.il，该项目旨在帮助以色列科技公司雇佣来自弱势群体的员工，以缩小以色列科技行业人才分布不均的差距。他认为，这个项目能够为以色列社会带来积极的改变。 Glenn Solomon和Oren Younger作为访谈主持人，引导Idan Tendler分享了他的创业经历、经验教训以及对Place.il项目的看法，并就相关问题进行了深入探讨。他们对Idan Tendler的创业精神和社会责任感表示赞赏。

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This chapter explores the importance of go-to-market strategy, using Idan's experiences with Fortscale and Bridgecrew. It highlights the mistakes made in Fortscale's go-to-market approach and the successful strategy employed by Bridgecrew, emphasizing the need for product-market fit and understanding customer needs.
  • 50% of time and energy dedicated to go-to-market in Bridgecrew
  • Fortscale's mistakes: lack of product-market fit, focus on technology over sales, aiming for acquisition rather than building a sustainable business

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Idan Tendler is the Senior Vice President of Application Security at Palo Alto Networks, as well as the chairman and co-founder of Place-IL, a nonprofit tech initiative. Idan discusses his previous cybersecurity analytics startup, Fortscale (later acquired by RSA Security), and some key lessons he learned from his experience building the company. Before Fortscale, Idan founded Bridgecrew, a company that helps developers better secure their cloud environment. With the goal of to making developers love security—a seemingly impossible task—Bridgecrew built an open-source product called Checkov, which allowed the company to get millions of developers to use their product. Today, Idan is also busy building Place-IL, a non-profit initiative that helps connect immigrants to Israel with job opportunities in the country's tech industry.