E1011: Check Point CEO & Co-founder Gil Shwed shares insights on being the “Godfather of Cybersecurity”, growing Check Point into Israel’s most impactful tech company, pricing & developing products for an emerging market, best practices on protecting data from hackers & the next generation of cybers

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

0:48 Jason intros Gil and asks about his lengthy background in cybersecurity
3:02 What experiences inspired Check Point?
8:31 Gil explains how he raised money for Check Point in the early 1990's
14:04 How did Gil build and price his first product in a developing market?
16:46 Dealing with the first batch of cyber attacks at Check Point
19:10 What was the profile of a typical hacker in the early Internet? When did the criminality start and how does crypto tie in?
25:20 Potential of Chinese hardware hacking & hackers stealing wired money from venture firms
30:16 What are the risks associated with high-level governmental cyber security breaches
31:42 Should companies be required to build backdoors into their messaging apps?
34:24 Are Tor networks totally safe?
38:19 Gil is the "Godfather of Cybersecurity"
38:55 How protective are two-factor authentication & biometrics?
41:26 What are the most dangerous types of hacks?
44:08 Why are Microsoft products more susceptible to hacks than Apple?
46:03 Will deep-fakes lead to more threats?
50:05 Best cyber-protection advice?
55:28 Are the electrical grids a huge liability?
57:55 What is their recruiting playbook?

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0:47.0	Hey everybody, welcome to this weekend startups. I'm your host Jason Callicanis and today we have the longest running NASDAQ CEO on the
0:55.8	program you're thinking oh you got bazaos finally Jeff baysos is on the program no
0:59.3	he's the second longest running public CEO today I have the CEO and co-founder of Checkpoint. The security
1:06.1	company, that's worth around $20 billion based in Israel, and his name is Gil Shaved. I got it right, Gil.
1:13.2	Yeah. Very nice. Welcome to the program.
1:15.2	Thank you. You've been at this for a long time.
1:17.4	And when you started, people just were putting up websites and you decided to build essentially the first firewall.
1:24.2	Do you get credit for the first file world?
1:25.8	I think we do.
1:26.8	First we started a little bit about a year before people did websites.
1:30.4	So we actually started in 93 and the web started in 1994.
1:35.0	And when we started it was actually when the internet opened up, moving from being a purely academic network,
1:40.0	when only universities can connect to being an open one when every
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