Inside the Network

About Inside the Network

Welcome to the inside track of cybersecurity entrepreneurship. We bring you the best founders, operators, and investors building the future of cybersecurity.

Publisher

Inside the Network Pod

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 May 2024

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

9 of 27 episodes have a transcript.

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   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Sachin Nayyar: Building two cyber giants - Securonix and Saviynt - at once and doing it his own way

   Host [Host Name] interviews Sachin Nayyar, founder of Securonix and Saviynt, about building two cybersecurity giants simultaneously and his unconventional approach to entrepreneurship and company growth.

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   31 Jul 2026

   Kyle Hanslovan: Building Huntress into a $3B+ unicorn by securing the 99%

   Our guest in this episode is Kyle Hanslovan, Co-Founder and CEO of Huntress. When Kyle started Huntress in 2015, most investors believed protecting small and mid-sized businesses wasn't a venture-scale opportunity. The contracts were too small, customer churn would be too high, and the market simply wasn't attractive enough. Kyle heard “no” more than 60 times from VCs before raising his first institutional round. Ten years later, Huntress has just crossed $250M ARR (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/a-quarter-billion-in-arr-is-a-responsibility-share-7488620797545054208-3evV/), protects more than 270,000 businesses, and has become one of the defining cybersecurity companies serving the 99% of organizations that don’t have dedicated security teams. Even more remarkably, Huntress achieved this growth without abandoning its original mission or moving upmarket. On Inside the Network, Kyle shares the unconventional story behind building one of cybersecurity's fastest-growing companies. We discuss why he ignored investor advice, why customer revenue mattered more than venture funding, how Huntress built a partner-first go-to-market strategy that became a lasting competitive advantage, and why serving the SMB market turned out to be a much bigger opportunity than most people realized. We also dive deep into AI and what it means to build an AI-centric cybersecurity company. Kyle explains why Huntress didn't start as an AI-native business, how years of automation and data science laid the groundwork for adopting modern AI, where large language models are genuinely changing security operations, and why he believes technical founders with deep research DNA will have a significant advantage in the AI era. Finally, Kyle shares candid lessons about leadership, founder psychology, and the personal cost of building venture-scale companies. He reflects on growing up “pretty darn broke,” what drove him to become an entrepreneur, why founders often underestimate the sacrifices required to build enduring businesses, and how he has learned to balance relentless ambition with building a company around a mission larger than himself.

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   3 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Rob Lee: Building Dragos into a multi-billion-dollar mission-driven cybersecurity company

   Rob Lee, co-founder and CEO of Dragos, shares insights on building a mission-driven cybersecurity company focused on critical infrastructure protection in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

Sachin Nayyar: Building two cyber giants - Securonix and Saviynt - at once and doing it his own way

Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So I don't think that's a badge of honor. I think I've learned the hard way. And now I'm committed to helping others solve that problem. And that's why I created a holistic health company to help myself. And I'm much better off. I'm... mentally and physically in my best shape and to help others as well. So for sure, I think we all need to take a moment and reassess. And there are small techniques that you can do, you know, Meditation is a heavy word. I would say light, mindfulness, you know, and changes in your schedule. I follow intermittent fasting, but please don't do it. I'm not a doctor. Don't do it because I'm telling you, you know, anti-inflammatory stuff. […]

Who has been a guest on Inside the Network

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• Sachin Nayyar
• Rob Lee
• Mike Fey
• Mark McClain
• Sumit Dhawan

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

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Quality

81

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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