One Basement Away from a Startup
What drives someone to leave a dream job at the heart of Silicon Valley to start again from a basement?
For Michael Coates, former CISO of Twitter and Mozilla, that leap wasn't about risk – it was about conviction. In this episode, Michael shares how stepping away from corporate success led him to build from the ground up: first a cybersecurity company born out of late-night sessions in his co-founder's basement, and later Seven Hill Ventures, a fund empowering the next generation of cybersecurity founders.
From Chicago to San Francisco, from code to capital, Michael reflects on how proximity…
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