Modern software is 80% open-source code. Nobody was checking whether that code had vulnerabilities. That is why I started Snyk.
Security tools built for security teams do not work. Developers ship 100 times more code than security teams can review. You have to make developers the security team.
Our free tier is not charity. It is strategy. Two million developers using Snyk for free means two million developers who will demand Snyk when their company buys enterprise security.
Every line of code is a potential vulnerability. Every dependency is a trust decision. Snyk exists because most developers make those trust decisions without any data.
We raised at $8.5 billion because the market was euphoric. Now we have to earn that valuation. I would rather have the pressure than not have the capital.
The best security tool is one developers actually want to use. If it slows them down, they will find a way around it. If it helps them, they will evangelize it.