Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on cybersecurity in the age of AI | E1806
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Today’s show:
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora joins Jason to discuss his time as head of Google Europe (2:26), strategies learned from Larry Page (15:23), precision AI’s role in cybersecurity (43:14), and much more!
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(0:00) Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora joins Jason
(2:26) Becoming head of Google Europe and meeting Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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(11:46) Maintaining Google’s culture in Europe and the hiring process
(15:23) Applying strategies learned from Larry Page to Palo Alto Networks
(17:59) Sub-categories of EQ manifested in the workplace
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(23:41) What led Nikesh to be CEO of one of the top Cybersecurity firms
(30:24) Cybersecurity against artificial intelligence
(35:31) The SEC’s mandate on breach reporting
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(39:51) The SEC’s mandate on breach reporting continued
(45:54) Gains from AI and what it means for organizations
(43:14) Precision AI’s role in security
(53:14) The future of AI technology and the battle of the chatbots
(57:41) Nikesh’s time at SoftBank working directly with Masayoshi Son
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| 0:00.0 | I came to California and Eric and I went for a walk around the Mountain View Campus and |
| 0:05.3 | we spent an hour walking around and he said he have 10 more interviews after this and he says |
| 0:09.2 | well we really like you but you know this is a job which requires you to sell advertising |
| 0:14.0 | in Europe and you've never sold advertising before. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm like so should that does that mean I should just pack my suitcase and go back |
| 0:21.3 | take my bag and go back to London because it's not my job for me and he's like yeah |
| 0:26.2 | are you very very sort of thoughtful is listen the business model of Google is going to evolve |
| 0:30.4 | multiple times in the future so I'm not sure we need to go find ourselves the best ad sales executive |
| 0:37.4 | you need to find ourselves a good executive who can roll with the punches and adapt. |
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| 1:37.4 | star summer we're getting all the amazing entrepreneur CEOs investors in the industry because |
| 1:44.9 | the summer they got a little bit of time I might be able to get them on the schedule and then you |
| 1:48.2 | get the benefit today no different I'm super excited to have Nikesh Aurora on the program to CEO |
| 1:55.4 | Palo Alto Networks but before that you know him because he was the president of soft bank and was |
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