Panel: So You Want to Be a Founder?
BSides NYC 2024 · Day 1 · Entrepreneur Panel
The "So You Want to Be a Founder?" panel at BSides NYC offered a candid, no-holds-barred look into the exhilarating yet often brutal world of startup entrepreneurship, particularly within the cybersecurity domain. Moderated by Brian McHenry, co-founder of BSidesNYC and a veteran of corporate development at F5, the discussion featured an impressive lineup of founders and startup leaders: Justin Shattuck (CSO, Resilience; founder, Loryka), Wesley Hales (founder, LeakSignal; ex-Shape Security/F5), Jonathan DiVincenzo (JD) (founder, Impart Security; ex-Signal Sciences/Fastly), and Lee Weiner (CEO, TrojAI; ex-Rapid7). This diverse group brought a wealth of experience, sharing invaluable lessons learned from both resounding successes and significant failures.
AI review
Competent panel with credible speakers who have real exits and founder scars behind them — this isn't LinkedIn fluff, it's people who've actually done it. But the content stays firmly in the territory of 'things you'd hear at any startup meetup': passion matters, reject rejection, hire slow fire fast, validate your ICP. Nothing here will surprise anyone who's read Paul Graham or spent a year in the ecosystem.