Rishi is the co-founder of Descope, an authentication platform that makes it easy for developers to add passwordless logins and secure user journeys to their consumer and business applications.

He is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded Demisto, a security operations startup that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $560M. He and the core Demisto team have teamed up again to build Descope, which recently announced a $53M seed led by Lightspeed and GGV Capital.

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👋🏼 How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

Helping application builders to make their applications secure and eliminate passwords.

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🧐 What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

I like getting my hands dirty with code, writing docs, or meeting customers. You will find me in the trenches all the time.

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🏆 What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

Demisto has been a highlight of my career. With Demisto, we created a winning product, created a new category, built an efficient and high-performing go-to-market engine, and had fun doing this with a fantastic team!

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💼 What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry? 

‍Spend time understanding your user deeply. The better you understand your user persona, the better your product and go-to-market will be.

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🗣 What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours? 

Home automation and gadgets.

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🎥 What's your favorite movie/TV show? 

Seinfeld.‍

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🍨 What's your go-to ice cream flavor?‍

Butterscotch.

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