From Checklists to a Billion-Dollar Company — VANTA | by Neha Suresh | Medium

Vanta (YC — W18) wasn’t born in a day, a month, or even a quarter. The founder, Christina Cacioppo, had tried building a whole bunch of things before zeroing in on compliance and security. She spent around six months building and experimenting with diverse ideas ranging from book tracking software to an SMS-based subscription service for skincare products, with many ideas in between that were scrapped. Finding the real gap Christina admitted she wasn’t someone who could come up with a huge idea by sitting in a dark room for a couple of days. Excited about building a software product, she started speaking to executives in software firms, learning their routines, struggles, and challenges, all the while trying to find a repeating problem. The real idea for Vanta was born when she found out that the Product Security lead at Dropbox spent a ton of time explaining how the product had been made secure to his higher-ups, so they could help in selling the product. The breakthrough happened whe

Vanta (YC — W18) wasn’t born in a day, a month, or even a quarter. The founder, Christina Cacioppo, had tried building a whole bunch of things before zeroing in on compliance and security. She spent around six months building and experimenting with diverse ideas ranging from book tracking software to an SMS-based subscription service for skincare products, with many ideas in between that were scrapped. Finding the real gap Christina admitted she wasn’t someone who could come up with a huge idea by sitting in a dark room for a couple of days. Excited about building a software product, she start