For early-stage startups handling sensitive data, a security breach can be fatal. The speaker argues security must be part of the product experience, not just technical debt, because the cost to customer trust is too high when you're still finding product-market fit.
Like one of the things I think about for the company, right? Because we're early and we're trying to find PMF, but if I had a security issue this early, that'd probably kill the company, right? Like we do not want that. Yeah, I totally agree on the, hey, it's always trade-offs between feature functionality and security, but hearing some of the stuff here today and learning from you, which I'm very thankful for, definitely raises the hair on my head and neck around, okay, I got to be like really focused on this. And especially if you're in a space where your customers really trust you with data, right? Then that is the product experience as well, is that they're not waking up in the middle of the night worried about like breaches or whatever. That's product, not just technical debt.
