🎧Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo Live at Newcomer's Breaking The Bank Summit: Turning Compliance Into a Competitive Advantage and Learnings From $0 to $100M ARR — This Week in Fintech

In today's episode, Ryan Zauk is joined by Christina Cacioppo, Co-Founder & CEO of Vanta.

Ryan and Christina recorded this episode live at Newcomer's Breaking the Bank Summit in San Francisco. The Summit was an invite-only, one-day summit for fintech founders, builders, and investors to explore the future of finance and technology.

Breaking the Bank was a phenomenal event, with speakers including Jackie Reses, Zach Perret, Eric Glyman, Matt Harris, Josh Reeves, William Hockey, Annie Lamont, and many more.

And if you're looking for more fintech events, check out Stablecon in NYC coming May 29th.

Now back to the episode...

Vanta has been a "center of the valley" company for years now, becoming one of the fastest companies to hit $100M ARR.

Christina is at the heart of this great success story and was a phenomenal guest. She shared a lot of insight (and laughs) talking through lessons scaling from $0 to $100M ARR as well as how Vanta helps companies turn compliance into a competitive advantage.

In this episode, Christina and Ryan discuss:

0:58 - What sparked her journey to technology and startups
4:03 - What exactly Vanta does, how it serves startups, and how they can quote a 526% ROI over 3 years for clients
10:13 - Why auditors, consultants, and lawyers can be friends instead of foe for Vanta
11:33 - Vanta's differentiation in a hot market
14:12 - Why shipping quickly is critical to staying relevant in software and the AI wave
16:43 - Vanta's in-house AI use and what her engineers love (and really don't love)
18:06 - Her top advice for founders facing hypergrowth and her views on Silicon Valley hyperscale lore
21:30 - The forever 'human' aspect of selling (and buying) software
22:38 - Hiring their first "Founder in Residence" and why it may be the new hottest job in the AI era
24:42 - Where differentiation will still exist in the AI era
26:45 - Raising from Sequoia and her advice to founders on how to vet your VCs (and why it's so critical to diligence them back) + the one thing founders really want from VCs at the early stage. It's simple, but not easy!
30:44 - A fun rapid fire round including the origin of the Vanta llama, favorites of her Ohio roots, their craziest marketing stunt attempt, her favorite books, a startup she's most excited about, and much more.

Enjoy the show.

Vanta is the leading trust management platform backed by Sequoia, Craft, YC and Crowdstrike Ventures. Over 10,000 companies, including Atlassian,

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