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Damien Lewke is the Founder & CEO of Nebulock, an AI-native
cybersecurity company building autonomous technology to find
threats before they become major attacks. Previously, he worked
across CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Arctic Wolf and Northrop
Grumman, four leading names across cybersecurity and defence, and
studied AI at MIT. Nebulock has since run 300M+ AI-powered
investigations and surfaced 4,000+ security incidents missed by
existing tools.
In this conversation with Vidit, Damien traces the unconventional
journey that led him there, from pursuing professional football
in Germany and selling shoes in Los Angeles to discovering
cybersecurity through an internship, working in Asia Pacific, and
eventually quitting his job without a perfect plan to start
Nebulock as a solo founder.
They unpack why cybersecurity is harder today than 12 years ago,
how AI could automate hacking at scale, and why even the world’s
best security tools still miss attacks. Damien also shares why he
interviewed 90 customers in 90 days before writing a line of
code, the 30-page manifesto that helped launch Nebulock, what he
learned inside some of cybersecurity’s defining companies, and
why he still runs 1,000 miles every year.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Meet Damien Lewke
03:50 Xero
04:50 Growing up between America and
Germany
14:20 Chasing professional football
21:00 Discovering cybersecurity
24:00 Cybersecurity: 2014 vs today
29:00 The DNC hack CrowdStrike
38:30 Australia, Palo Alto + MIT
47:00 Why he became a solo founder
53:00 Why AI changes cybersecurity
57:00 Building Nebulock
1:00:00 Can the giants copy it?
1:05:00 90 customers before writing code
1:12:00 Hiring exceptional people
1:20:00 AI vs AI: the future of cyber
1:24:00 Running 1,000 miles + rapid fire
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