I'm building Vanta. By changing economic incentives, we aim to 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. Back in 2021, I talked about scaling Vanta to $10mm ARR before a Series A.
Prior to Vanta, I helped build Dropbox Paper and built tools to make programming easier (which LLMs later 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 code and build 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.)