Archive - Rak's Facts

Identity Crisis: The Biggest Prize in Security

My first job out of college was at Atlassian, where I led a product team focused on identity security & visibility. I met dozens of CIOs, IT admins, and…

Dec 18, 2023 •

March 2023

The Race to $100B: The Palo Alto Networks Story

I had a lot of fun writing this one. Palo Alto Networks is a company I’ve admired for a long time; it’s the world’s biggest standalone security company…

Mar 16, 2023 •

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February 2023

Security's Fifth Estate: Predictions for 2023

Application security, automation, and AI-driven anti-phishing could spawn the next big security platform.

Feb 3, 2023 •

Five Predictions for AI in 2023

Tl;dr: unstructured streaming ETL, new hardware architectures, middleware to power LLM-based app developers, workflow execution, and generative content

Feb 1, 2023 •

January 2023

Raising a Series A for your DevTools Startup

Five metrics early-stage investors will focus on during your pitch.

Jan 22, 2023 •

October 2022

The Next Heroku

...Might be Fly.io. Ditching free plans has made many consider alternatives to Heroku. We dive deep into which companies are best positioned to benefit.

Oct 6, 2022 •

September 2022

Five metrics Series A investors look for in dev tools startups

Raising a Series A has gotten a lot harder. Here's how to tell your story and raise a stellar round of funding.

Sep 22, 2022 •

June 2022

The middle class of open source software

Assessing the viability of building a business selling to open source project maintainers

Jun 21, 2022 •

January 2022

ServiceThen, ServiceNow, ServiceTomorrow

Automation is modularizing point products across functions and domains, becoming the vehicle for deploying decisioning ML in the enterprise and…

Jan 18, 2022 •

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Squeezing Citrix

Application portability is critical amidst the backdrop of ransomware attacks, and a wide swath of startups is enabling greater portability …

Jan 5, 2022 •

January 2021

The Great Splunkbundling

Logging infrastructure & the SIEM stack weren't built for 2020. Splunk dominates this category, but will get disrupted by best-of-breed tooling.

Jan 20, 2021 •

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