The Decibel Podcast: Founders Helping Founders
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The Decibel Podcast: Founders Helping Founders is a business podcast hosted by Jon Sakoda. It has 26 episodes, with the latest published August 2025.
The Decibel Podcast brings together founders from diverse backgrounds to share their personal journeys, words of wisdom, and lessons learned from the earliest years of their now successful startups. Creating something out of nothing is always a hard and messy process, and we demystify the most thrilling and challenging phase of every startup’s life: the very beginning.Hosted by Jon Sakoda, Founding Partner of Decibel, we go deep on how every founder survives the moments of crisis that kill others, overcomes personal challenges and adversity, and ultimately finds their way through the twists and turns on the winding road of a startup’s journey. Along the way, we debunk conventional wisdom about the VC and tech industry for first time founders. This podcast is produced by Decibel, an independent venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco to push the conventional boundaries of early stage investing. Decibel combines the speed, agility, and independent risk-taking traditional
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Casey Ellis, Founder of BugCrowd: When Known Vulnerabilities are Life or Death
Yaron Singer, Founder and CEO of Robust Intelligence: The Inconvenient Truth of AI
Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-Founder and Former CTO of Crowdstrike: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Chris Wysopal, Founder and CTO of Veracode: How Hackers Became the Celebrities of Cybersecurity
Kevin Mandia, Founder and CEO of Mandiant: Creating the Navy Seals of Cybersecurity Software
Shay Banon, Founder and CTO of Elastic: Never Stop Searching in a Startup
HD Moore, Founder and CEO of Metasploit/ RunZero: Shining the Light in Dark Places
Bipul Sinha, Founder and CEO of Rubrik: The Danger of Psychological Safety
Guy Podjarney, Founder of Snyk: Building Conviction on a Contrarian Bet
Nir Polak, Founder of Exabeam: Combating the Pressure of Great Success
Jesse Rothstein, Founder of ExtraHop Networks: Pulling Off The High Speed Pivot
Ed Bellis, Founder of Kenna Security: One Person Can Change Everything
Slavik Markovich, Founder of Demisto: Don't Fall in Love with Your Idea
Oliver Friedrichs, Founder of Phantom Cyber: The Masterclass in M&A
Haroon Meer, Founder of Thinkst Canary: VC Money Won’t Solve All Your Problems
Amy Chang, Founder of Accompany: Lean Into the Fear
Andrew Peterson, Co-Founder of Signal Sciences: Learn to Punch Above Your Weight
Ricardo Oliveira, Co-Founder of ThousandEyes: How to see Rejection as Redirection
Matthew Prince, Co-Founder of Cloudflare: The Power of an Uncharted Path
Michelle Zatlyn, Co-founder of Cloudflare: Pursuing the Greatest Mistake of Your Life
Marty Roesch, Founder of Sourcefire: Don’t Be The Smartest Guy In The Room
Jon Oberheide, Founder of Duo Security: Why Hackers Make Great Founders
Omar Tawakol, Founder of Voicea: Don't be Distracted by Unicorns
Mohit Lad, Co-founder of ThousandEyes: How Being a Founder Was Plan C
Dug Song, Founder of Duo Security: Either You Win or You Learn
Introducing The Decibel Podcast: Founders Helping Founders
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