David Rosenthal, Acquired / Kindergarten Ventures | Why They Invested in Vanta, an Automated Compliance Company

Today is a special episode of UP with our first returning guest David Rosenthal from the Acquired Podcast (Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal)! This is a cross-episode for their Pod's LP Feed. We highly recommend subscribing to the feed. It's has more in depth industry knowledge and has a great community (Join their Slack too). Oh and it's free! David also started a venture fund called Kindergarten Ventures with his friend (from kindergarten) Nat Manning (Kettle). Thomas and David discuss their investment in Vanta, an automated compliance company which "helps companies scale security practices and automate compliance for the industry’s most sought after standards - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA." Topics Include: -David and Thomas' investing thought processes -Software eating the world -Why Vanta? -What is Vanta? -Why you still need the Auditors and why that was smart for Vanta to pursue -Christina Cacioppo, CEO & Founder, at Vanta "Christina Cacioppo is the CEO and co-founder of Vanta, a leading security and compliance platform backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator. Previously, she led product management for Dropbox Paper. She is based in San Francisco and enjoys running and reading in her spare time." -Kindergarten Fund -Terms of the Vanta deal -Vanta deal dynamics -Goals and Future hopes for Vanta -Rule of 40 Company (Recurring revenue growth + cash flow margin) a SaaS company's growth rate when added to its free cash flow rate should equal 40 percent or higher -Liquidation Preference (Benefits and Downside?) Sponsors: Tegus Research  My Marketplace Builder Links: Thomas McGannon LinkedIn Follow us on social media: Like and subscribe and all that stuff...stay in touch as we will have exciting updates and content soon... @uppodpod Twitter @uppodpod Instagram UP YouTube Channel up-pod.com (Now with ListenNotes for transcripts of each episode) Email us: show@up-pod.com,