Inc. Founders Project With Alexa Von Tobel

Chainguard founder and CEO Dan Lorenc is building the security layer the entire software industry should run on. After nearly a decade at Google working on open source infrastructure, Dan co-founded Chainguard in 2021 to solve a problem hiding in plain sight. 90 to 95 percent of the code powering the world's software is open source, free, and largely unsecured. Now leading a $3.5B+ company with more than 600 customers, Dan shares his unfiltered take on where software security, AI, and the future of engineering are all headed. What You'll Learn: How Chainguard is securing the open source software the world runs on Why the AI coding boom is making software security harder, not easier What the future of software engineering actually looks like Why CISOs can't afford to say no to AI, even when it scares them Whether we've already hit AGI in the software space How to think about your own digital security right now Chapters: 00:00 Introduction01:30 Growing Up a Builder04:22 The Origin of