We don't want to build that. Hopefully we don't have to use it. But we'd so much rather take that time and effort and build something actually useful. Anyway, we're not going to build this off switch.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
neutralfactfact_claimon Vanta
The answer is because it's way easier to get a non-AI tool through procurement.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
We think of Vanta as a security company. Started with compliance. The best version of compliance is proving the security you have. You've got to have a good security. We think we can and are moving into a bunch of security domains,
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
I am at a fuse right now where we value that skill set more than like the vertical skill set of you're good at sales, you're good at customer success, and would take a worse salesperson on sales skill who knows the Vanta pieces more.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
bullishprediction✓ corroboratedpredictionon Vanta
I think, at the fullness of time, a 80% growth business with 80% margins will actually be better than over the same time period, run it out long enough, a 160% growth business with 30% margins.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
mixedinterpretationassessmenton Vanta
The last 12 months, SaaS apocalypse. You're like, OK, great job building a system of record. You're now screwed. You're now worthless. Parts of that are true and parts of that are not true.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
We call it our trust graph. It's really just like a security data lake and that is bigger, broader than any other provider, including some of the security providers, because we touch areas they don't. And I think in retrospect, that data foundation has let us build new things faster.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
The other thing we really invested in when it got competitive that was very good was integrations, pulling in data from other tools. So now you can connect Vanta to one of 400 tools.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
Execution, software, the blessing and the curse, and this is more true now, even than it was five years ago. You're really only as good as the last thing you shipped.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta
bullishfact✓ corroboratedfact_claimon Vanta
Today, we're about 16,000 customers global with about five products.
— Christina Cacioppo - Building an Enduring Software Company in the Age of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.496] — vanta