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Den Jones

Aug 20, 2026

4:05
But now you work with companies that have like less than a thousand, more like hundreds, right? What made you want to make that move? And what's the biggest difference? I don't want to know all the differences, but what's the big difference?
4:19
It's really, I mean, it was a twist of fate.
4:22
So I went from Adobe, 40,000 people running enterprise security to Cisco during COVID running enterprise security there, 110,000 people.
4:32
Doing all the big problems, you know, the zero trustee stuff and supply chain or whatever, all those things.
4:38
And then all of a sudden I went from having a team of 300 people, 60 million a year budget to joining a startup running security and IT in their customer zero program.
4:48
They were a zero trust security vendor.
4:50
And I had a team of one, I think, with an outsourced bunch of people and a budget of about $5.99. And the biggest... realization when I was in that role, we got acquired and as far being acquired, then I started to realize that there's a lot of small companies that One bad thing can bring them down and there's a lot of FBI stats on this one.
10:03
So, yeah, I think that's fair.
1:42
crux of that? What's the difference in the way that you guys are doing
1:46
it? Yeah.
1:46
So, well, there's a couple of things.
1:48
One is we originally started to build a marketplace called 909 Select.
1:54
And a year ago, we built a thing for students trying to connect students with part employers for part time work.
2:01
And the interesting thing is part of building that out is we were applying zero trust principles.
2:07
So it's funny, you and I, you know, we've talked about zero trust for eons now.

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