Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland and we are here today with board partner Steven Sinovsky.

Steven, welcome.

Hi there.

And the CTO and co-founder of our latest investment, Tainium, Orion Hindawi.

Welcome.

Thank you.

All the way from Berkeley, California.

That's right.

We like to represent the East Bay every now and again. So I want to

really dig in. You guys have built this incredible enterprise technology. And so I want you to

describe it for us. But let's maybe start by describing the big problem that you and your co-founder

is your father, but that you and your team at Tanyum had been

addressing for years, really. Yeah, so, I mean, we essentially founded Tainium with the co-founders

that we originally founded Big Fix with. And so Big Fix was founded in 1997, a technology that

essentially allowed people that had really large-scale environments to assess the

state of those environments. So look at the endpoints, see what was running on them, you know,

which users were logged in and where they were and a variety of other characteristics. And

what we kept on seeing at Big Fix was that, you know, around 2004, 2005 customers were really

struggling to get those systems to work fast enough.

So if you look at the problems that they were trying to address, it was kind of the nascent area of

APT and much faster attacks, and they were seeing a lot of outages that were happening.

They were starting and ending in the span of minutes instead of the span of hours or days.

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