29 min
Nate Kharrl, CEO and Co-Founder of Spec: $30 Million Raised to Build the Future of Fraud Defense Category Visionaries
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- Entrepreneurship
In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Nate Kharrl, CEO and Co-Founder of Spec, a fraud defense technology platform that's raised $30 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
Nate’s background as a journalism dropout, lifelong hacker and teenage fraudster on eBay
A woman CEO Nate admires, and an infamous book he read many times
The difference between a cybersecurity break and fraud
How the pandemic propelled Nate to create Spec in order to defend online businesses from low-level cybercrime
Getting his first customer, and why it’s true that “you don’t know what you’ve built until your customers tell you”
Favorite book:
The 48 Laws of Power
In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Nate Kharrl, CEO and Co-Founder of Spec, a fraud defense technology platform that's raised $30 Million in funding.
Topics Discussed:
Nate’s background as a journalism dropout, lifelong hacker and teenage fraudster on eBay
A woman CEO Nate admires, and an infamous book he read many times
The difference between a cybersecurity break and fraud
How the pandemic propelled Nate to create Spec in order to defend online businesses from low-level cybercrime
Getting his first customer, and why it’s true that “you don’t know what you’ve built until your customers tell you”
Favorite book:
The 48 Laws of Power
29 min