How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a distinct cost management giant

How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a distinct cost management giant

It’s natural to think an expense report management service would play it by the book. But one take a look at Expensify suffices to inform you that this is a business that never ever even looked for the book. It’s natural to believe a business in the expenditure report management business would keep it easy and play it by the book. From its popular “workcations,” to its management structure and its decision-making policies, Expensify has it in its DNA to shun so-called best practices for its own ideas– a philosophy rooted in its founder and early group’s P2P hacker background and do-it-yourself attitude. Creator and CEO David Barrett made it clear his company was different in our first call itself: “We employ in an incredibly different method. We’re an extremely small business. One look at Expensify is enough to tell you that this is a business that never even looked for the book….

Spectral raises $6.2 M for its DevSecOps service

Spectral raises $6.2 M for its DevSecOps service

Tel Aviv-based Spectral is bringing its brand-new DevSecOps code scanner out of stealth today and announcing a $6.2 million funding round. The start-up’s programming language-agnostic service aims to automated code security development groups to help them detect potential security problems in their logs and codebases, for example. Those issues might be hardcoded API secrets and […] The start-up’s shows language-agnostic service aims to automated code security advancement teams to help them spot prospective security issues in their logs and codebases. The four-person founding team has a deep background in building AI, tracking and security tools. Other creators worked on structure monitoring tools at Elastic and HP and on security at Akamai. …