Snyk, which stands for “So Now You Know” and is pronounced like sneak, is the inventor and now leader of the growing developer security space. Back in 2015, Snyk founder Guy Podjarny recognized that the future of cybersecurity depended on one thing: developer adoption.
What a great quarter! Yes, it’s a lot of writing. Yes, I do all of the writing. But I’ve come to appreciate the tremendous privilege it is to hear the stories of all you talented operators, founders, ecosystem builders & companies trying to make a dent in this vibrant Boston startup ecosystem and the world beyond. I feel a deep responsibility to do you all justice and I’m working at it every day!
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Kayla Dowd has been in and around insurance all her life. As Hi Marley’s first Customer Success Manager, she is on the front lines of representing “simple, lovable communication” for this rapidly growing insurtech startup. Which actually undersells it. Her family has been in the insurance business for 125 years. If her family business did one of those “cumulative team experience” slides it might have a fourth digit on it. Are careers predestined? Do we find our way to an inevitable destination based on our talents, backgrounds, or family dinner table conversation? You have to wonder!
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oncoverycare is the first virtual survivorship clinic with a mission to help survivors lead happier, healthier lives. If we’re going to talk about oncoverycare, first we need to talk about its co-founder, Hil Moss.
Carla Price is a Revenue Enablement leader who’s carved a path into startups, leveraging her education, to give her colleagues the tools they need to succeed. Through her career she’s been influenced through the help of family, friends, and colleagues. Especially her dad, a former social worker who’s battling Alzheimers. Carla has learned a lot from her father about what it means to find fulfillment in her work. He has been a lifelong teacher for her and others teaching countless students how to demonstrate leadership, communicate, and build relationships.
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Markit Social is “software for creators and event marketing”. Founded in 2021 out of the Tufts Venture Accelerator and a recent graduate of the Techstars Boston accelerator program, Jonathan Chang and his team are on a mission to reinvent events for creators and Gen Z attendees.
Steve Papa was a driving force behind the Endeca experience in the way that he built, challenged, thought and resourced the talented folks that worked for him as the Founder & CEO. These are the bonus learnings John, Steve, Andrew, Vinay & Julie learned from him and one thing he learned from each of them:
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Startups are hard. Aside from some outliers, it’s hard to do unreasonable things and it’s a lot of work. All the Endeca employees were forged through this difficult but rewarding experience. If you sign up for the work, you need to be committed to it. It’s not a normal job. In the current era “there’s a lot of people who try to argue there should be more entrepreneurs. But it’s like being a professional athlete without training” says Steve Papa.
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The context of Endeca at the time, as we’ve highlighted, was the tug of war between being a platform company vs. a vertical application company. In order to raise capital in 2001 to get the company off the ground, they had to pitch a platform and didn’t necessarily have the persuasive arguments for why they should be a vertical application company instead.
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Good people that work well together is a fundamental necessity in startups. Finding ways for them to grow to keep them together long enough to find success is even more important! One way to do that is to ask unreasonable things of them. The Special Operations group was another place where Endeca could bring in talented folks they didn’t necessarily have a place for yet and keep them busy before reorganizations or strategic repositionings as the company grew.
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