Real Life Superpowers
Gur Shatz: "In a company's life, there are ups and downs, right?"
In a conversation with Noa Eshed and Ronen Menipaz on the podcast Real Life Superpowers, Cato Networks co-founder Gur Shatz discusses how the company came to be and how experience in a field plays an advantage
In this month’s Real Life Superpowers podcast, Ronen and Noa speak with Gur Shatz.
Gur is an accomplished entrepreneur, having founded Incapsula, a cloud-based web application security and acceleration company that was later acquired by Imperva.
In 2015, he co-founded Cato Networks with Shlomo Kramer, a leading all-in-one enterprise networking and security solution delivered from the cloud.
Gur and Shlomo's vision for Cato Networks has been a resounding success. In just five years, they have raised an impressive $532M at a $2.5B valuation, and as of 2022, have surpassed $100M ARR. This makes Cato the fastest-growing networking and security startup, outperforming even industry giants like LinkedIn. In fact, Cato's growth rate is faster than many consumer-oriented brands, such as Wix, Zapier, Canva, and Shopify.
Topics covered:
- How Cato Networks came to be and how experience in a field plays an advantage
- How the team went about acquiring market acceptance
- Selling to customers before you have a solution that’s 100% functional
- The need to convey confidence while experiencing constant paranoia and concern
- How past success can also be an impediment to future success
- The fear of growing into a large non-agile organization
- What happens when leaders lose touch with what’s actually going on in “the trenches”
- Gur’s leadership formula for time management
- The importance of blocking time eternal learning
And much more!
Enjoy your listen!
Noa Eshed: recognized as a thought leader by the Daily Telegraph. Her book "The Smart Marketer's Guide to Google Adwords” was an Amazon no.1 bestseller. Her digital marketing agency Bold Digital Architects has acclaimed several industry awards. She previously co-founded and distributed Israel’s only national magazine for students, and is a certified lawyer (Hebrew U grad) and journalist.
Ronen Menipaz: an Israeli investor, entrepreneur, tech advisor, and founder of numerous business ventures in the entertainment, adtech, and fintech space. During his 25 years of entrepreneurial experience, Ronen has been involved with over 100 startups in Israel, 30 of which he founded or co-founded. Two of those startups went public, while five were sold and four more are currently privately profitable companies.
