This week we chat with Eric Li, a 3rd year computer engineering student who was a Software Engineering Intern at Lacework. Tune in to learn about cloud security, his YCombinator experience, leaving school and then returning, and other insights on startups!
Find Eirc Li at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericli1234
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08:00 - What Lacework does
10:02 - Clients of Lacework
13:24 - Interest in security
15:58 - Writing code for a security company
19:36 - About own startup
26:28 - YCombinator experience
40:14 - Shutting down own startup
46:01 - Do you want to keep building startups?
49:31 - Thoughts on opportunity cost
53:25 - Conviction in your ideas
56:27 - Advice for listeners
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