Vanta's Path to Product-Market Fit — Solve the Customer’s Problem, Then Write Code | First Round Review
Vanta founder and CEO Christina Cacioppo sits down with First Round Partner Todd Jackson for an inside look at all the unconventional moves in the company’s first few years — from creating a new category to signing the first 600 customers without a proper website, waiting to raise a Series A until they had $10M in ARR.
Not many people would leave a role at a prestigious venture capital firm to teach themselves how to code and “make a bunch of things no one’s ever heard of.” But not many people are like Christina Cacioppo . “If you tell someone you’re going back to school, they get it; if you tell them you quit your job to code, they’ll think you’re insane,” she wrote in a blog post two years after resigning from the investment team at Union Square Ventures. Now, she’s the co-founder and CEO of Vanta , a security and compliance automation platform valued at $1.6 billion and recently named to the Cloud 100 lis
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