Material Security CEO: How To Find Your Ideal Customer
AI + a16z6 Loka 2025

Material Security CEO: How To Find Your Ideal Customer

What if the hardest part of building a company isn’t the product, but knowing exactly who it’s for?

In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado sits down with Abhishek Agrawal, Cofounder and CEO of Material Security, to discuss how an ideal customer profile is discovered, how to manage any kind of customer, and how frothy markets can distort real signal.

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