Valley Legend Reversed: Staying in School & Building a Business with Soul (Marcin Kleczynski)

Security Voices

The Silicon Valley legend is the college dropout who made billions… but what if instead they stayed in the dorm room? This is the intriguing story of Marcin Kleczynski and MalwareBytes, told in a candid ~1-hour interview where he explains how his company was built in vivid detail. Marcin takes us through his formative moments as a Polish immigrant in Illinois helping his family’s cleaning business to his choice to remain in school at his mother’s insistence while MalwareBytes was making millions. Dave and Marcin discuss key product questions such as how much is too much product functionality to give away, how to work with the channel, whether or not you can effectively serve both consumer and enterprise markets and the future of endpoint protection. He also explains why it still makes sense to build a great office when the world feels like it’s shifting quickly to a remote workforce. We also find out why you should never send deep dish pizza to people in California...