In this live Founder Formula conversation recorded at Trace3’s Evolve conference, your hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty sit down with Yoav Regev, Co‑Founder and CEO of Sentra. Regev traces his path from nearly 25 years in Israeli military intelligence (including leadership within Unit 8200) to founding Sentra, where his team helps enterprises move faster by understanding, governing, and securing their most important asset: data. He highlights “scale” as Sentra’s core differentiator in a wor...

This special episode of The Founder Formula goes behind the scenes with Garima Kapoor, Co‑Founder of MinIO, and was recorded live at Trace3’s Evolve Conference! Your co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty reflect with Garima on her founder’s journey, growing an open‑source‑first product into enterprise impact, and what it takes to serve the AI era’s demand for on‑prem, exascale object storage. This session is packed with lessons leaders can apply immediately. Inside the episode, you’ll h...

The rise of machines has led to a tsunami of machine identities. This Founder set out to manage those identities and protect their secrets. In this episode, of The Founder Formula, our co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty interview Oded Hareven, the Co-Founder and CEO of Akeyless. The three of them discuss the significance of the Akeyless name, the commitment it takes to found a company, fundraising strategies, and balancing risk vs. success. Listen to this and all of The Founder Fo...

In this episode of The Founder Formula, learn all about Lauren Fitzpatrick Shank’s journey to entrepreneurism. Lauren is the Founder and CEO of KeepWOL, a game-centric talent development platform. Listen in to this episode of The Founder Formula to hear directly from a Founder whose mission is to help leaders deeply understand their employees. Plus, you’ll hear about building a brand that solves a problem, the art of saying no, and developing a good business culture through understandi...

This Founder has years of experience helping billion-dollar companies realize their full potential, including the data security company he founded, Rubrik. In Bipul Sinha’s world, data is the most critical asset. Co-hosts Todd Gallina and Tony Olzak sit down with Bipul and discuss the importance of selling strategy, and then share some valuable insights into the world of data security, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. Listen to this and all of The Founder Formula episodes through your ...

This Founder has some surprising additional talents outside of founding a company that’s raised $20 million in VC funding to hunt for networked devices. After helping several start-up brands market their solutions, Chris Kirsch joined the founding team of runZero and is currently the company’s CEO. In addition to a fun round of “fact or fiction,” The Founder Formula co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty talked with Chris about, the evolution of a winning name for a company, developing a...

Security teams sometimes need to tackle big transformations as they keep up with today’s threat landscape. This two-time Founder set out to make that transformation less intimidating. In this episode, our co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty interview Guy Podjarny, the Founder and President of Snyk. The three of them discuss how Guy was able to overcome a catastrophic failure, the importance of winning over a user, and rethinking the way security teams defeat threats. Listen to this and all...

Identity and data are intrinsically linked. In fact, our guest in this episode tells us 10 years from now the only things that will mater in cloud computing and cybersecurity will be people and data. The rest is just details. In this episode, co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty of Trace3 interview Mohit Tiwari Co-Founder & CEO at Symmetry Systems. Mohit tells us all about his transition from teaching in academia to becoming a tech founder, unpacks what a good culture fit really is, and...

This Founder challenges others looking to start a business to ask themselves - Why do you want to start a company? Ermetic Co-Founder Arick Goomanovsky is a two-time founder who appreciates the ever-evolving journey of founding a company. In this episode, co-hosts Todd Gallina and Sandy Salty sit down with Arick to discuss the inner workings of launching Ermetic, a cloud security startup which has raised a total of $97.3M in funding over 4 rounds. Listen in with this Founder and learn more a...

This entrepreneur knows that to build a successful company, the clients’ experiences, motivations, issues, and mindset comes first. Vikram Kapoor, Co-founder and CTO of Lacework, talks about the origins of his customer-centric mentality in his journey of building a Series D funded technology startup. Vikram tells co-hosts Sandy Salty and Todd Gallina about the most important factors in scaling Lacework - the shared principals and keeping a pulse on competition. Hear about the ins and outs of...