S10 Bonus: Shai Horovitz, Jit.io
Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Shai Horovitz grew up on a farm in Israel, 1.5 hours north of Tel Aviv. He was drafted into the army, in a unit that focused on technology - and in 2013, he moved to the states and joined a startup. And - he loved it, eventually leading the team in building the business in Japan. Outside of tech, he loves to travel with his family and 3 kids. He is also a self proclaimed foodie, and enjoys sports - spending 11 years in Boston rooting on the Celtics.
The team at Shai's current venture was attempting to shift left the solving of security issues in production. Now, they are entering into a new era - in building the agentic cybersecurity team of the future. Two years ago, he joined to lead the charge.
This is the creation story of Jit.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rohan Kare Mandy. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Phil Hawthorne, and we're the hosts of the Home Assistant podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | We're guessing you're into technology. |
| 0:06.5 | Home Assistant is the number one open source contributor project on GitHub, with a focus on privacy and local control. |
| 0:12.5 | Join us every other week as we'll break down the latest features of Home Assistant |
| 0:16.0 | and talk to everyday users who are automating their lives with Home Assistant. |
| 0:19.5 | From feeling like you're living in Star Trek with lights turning on in rooms when you walk in, |
| 0:24.9 | to automating, flushing the toilet. |
| 0:27.0 | Home Assistant can integrate with virtually anything, |
| 0:29.4 | and we've interviewed everyday people like yourselves, |
| 0:32.1 | and that have done some pretty crazy automations. |
| 0:34.5 | Listen to the Home Assistant Podcast wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, |
| 0:37.3 | or find us on |
| 0:38.3 | YouTube or visit home assistant.fm. |
| 0:44.6 | So we put a lot of focus on understanding on one hand how software is built. |
| 0:49.8 | Where are the individual contributor developers spending their time? |
| 0:53.4 | What systems do they like? What causes |
| 0:55.8 | friction and causes them to disengage from the processes that are needed? Getting into that mode |
| 1:01.3 | of discovery of continuously talking to customers and thinking, all right, what can we do different |
| 1:06.4 | where we can break the mold of the security task that's coming out of left field and |
| 1:11.7 | working with a stick. |
| 1:13.4 | How can we make it into a carrot? |
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