S9 E33: Rick Caccia, WitnessAI

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Rick Caccia was born and raised in Silicon Valley - and just stayed. He is married with 2 teenage daughters, one about to go to college. Between him and his wife, they have worked in 13 different startups - so you could say they have a startup family through and through. Outside of tech, he is a cyclist in a bike club, and enjoys spending time with his family. After speaking with a number of security officers at companies, Rick realized the enterprise situation with AI - most companies are stuck, trying to figure out how to enable their employees to use new tooling, while still maintaining the level of security and control they have over data. Rick was asked to join a founding team to solve this problem. This is the creation story of WitnessAI. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We started this company thinking about the security of AI use in a way that most security startups also do, and we got it wrong.
0:11.0	So we had to revisit and trade some things off.
0:14.0	So we looked at this and said, oh, this is going to be like any other new type of security issue.
0:19.0	You're going to have new types of attacks.
0:23.3	AI-oriented attacks are going to be the big deal.
0:26.9	Let's figure out how to talk about those and prevent them.
0:30.3	And then we went out and we talked to maybe a dozen CISOs. And the interesting thing was none of them cared.
0:33.1	Nobody cared.
0:34.7	They thought that was years away.
0:36.7	And instead, they cared about much less sexy things.
0:40.3	My name is Rick Kachia.
0:41.8	I'm the CEO of Witness AI.
0:43.3	This is Code Story.
0:47.3	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.3	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
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