Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Jason Martin, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Permiso, a cloud identity detection and response platform that aims to find evil in the cloud, whether it's inadvertent misconfigurations or malicious activity by adversaries. The company has raised $10 million in funding to date.

Key topics discussed in this episode:

• Jason's 25+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including his roles on the offensive and defensive side, as a CISO, and most recently as the global head of product and engineering at FireEye Mandiant.
• The admiration for Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, and his principles of respecting competition, learning from them, and doing what they do better.
• The influence of the book "Thank You for Being Late" by Thomas Friedman, a non-techie's view of the major technology tailwinds that society is facing and their potential impact on day-to-day life, politics, and society.
• Permiso's mission to find evil in the cloud across SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS environments, detecting precursors, identifying breaches, and helping customers respond and remediate the impact.
• The disappointment with the cybersecurity industry's lack of progress in solving fundamental problems, despite the influx of capital and talent, due to the shortage of skilled people, the rapid pace of technological change, and the confusion created by vendors claiming to do everything.