Automating the $80 Billion SOC 2 Market with Shrav Mehta (Secureframe)

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Shrav Mehta is the Founder and CEO of Secureframe, which empowers businesses to build trust with customers by automating information security and compliance. Shrav started the company in 2019 after being an early employee at Scale, Pilot, Lob, and Hired, and has since raised from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Backend Capital, Soma Capital, and Banana Capital.

Shrav takes us inside how Secureframe’s automating the compliance market, lessons learned on recruiting and scaling teams, and his contrarian take on finding product market fit.

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Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (2:10) Automating the $80 billion compliance market (15:49) Learning to program building Android apps (22:50) Joining Lob, Hired, and Scale early (27:25) Joining Pilot to learn marketing and growth (33:31) Shrav’s secret discount furniture supplier (35:04) Finishing three years of college in one year (39:06) Getting 30-40 customers before starting Secureframe (44:24) Non-intuitive fundraising advice from pre-product to IPO (50:08) Why the IPO isn't the ultimate goal (54:40) How Shrav approaches hiring (58:04) Tactics for effective reference checks (1:01:01) Why warm intros are so helpful (1:02:32) How to send good cold emails (1:05:31) Why you should not use LinkedIn “open to work” (1:06:54) Lessons learned scaling teams (1:13:45) Why finding PMF is a 24/7 job and never ends

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Referenced:

Secureframe: https://secureframe.com/

Lob: https://www.lob.com/

Hired: https://hired.com/

Scale: https://scale.com/

Zapier’s Secrets to PMF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMjuYt9jEc

What it took to raise a Series A in 2023: https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/seed-to-series-a-funding-2023-jones-kruze — — — — Where to find Shrav:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shravvmehtaa/

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/shravmehta/

Where to find Turner:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/turnernovak/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovak/

Newsletter: https://www.thespl.it/

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