I'm building Vanta. By changing economic incentives, I think we can make companies more secure.
A few years ago, I gave a talk at YC Startup School about finding a startup idea in a big market. Prior to Vanta, I helped build Dropbox Paper, and I built tools to make programming easier, which LLMs obviated. I've made loads of things that taught me to build on and for the internet.
I started my career at USV, which I enjoyed—until I realized that, as the internet seeps into everything, the future belongs to people who make things. At the time, quitting my job to learn to program felt huge, and I wrote about learning to make, building products, and joining startups. In retrospect, it wasn't a big deal.
My internet began in the 90s on Beanie Baby forums and eBay. I grew up in the Midwest, reading about and dreaming of Palo Alto garages, and still bleed scarlet and gray. I like books (reviews), microeconomics, running up hills, oil paintings (especially Renaissance, Dutch, Haitian, Magritte L'Empire des lumières), the NBA, 80s and 90s gymnastics, and contemporary East African politics.
I occasionally angel invest in areas I have worked in before:
[email protected], christinacaci on Twitter, christinac on Github, ccacioppo on LinkedIn (consistency is overrated.)