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Day 3 · Interview 04 of 1410:19 AM · Moscone West

Zeke Chavez

Founder, Indora Labs

An authorization layer that controls what AI and agents can do inside companies.

The full conversation

6:20 · every question and answer, tightened. Tap a line to jump to it.

The short version

2:33 · Zeke's answers, condensed.

Clips

5 short clips, captioned, in vertical and widescreen. Free to download and repost.

You'll get punched in the face

“You need a lot of tenacity and grit. I mean, you're going to get your butt kicked all the time. And, you know, I've been the CEO in most almost all of my companies, actually all my companies. And so you basically have to…”

0:30
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Skip the VC glam. Solve a real problem.

“I think these days there's a lot of founders that get very obsessed with, you know, VCs and, you know, the glam and of it all. But the most important thing at the end of the day is, are you solving a real problem for you…”

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Be useful before you ever meet

“In this day and age, you know, doing cold outbound doesn't work like it used to because everyone has tools to go and automate that. And so the next thing is, is how can I add so much value to someone before I've even met…”

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You can't protect what you can't see

“Right now a lot of organizations are rolling out these tools but there's I think it's about 5 .5 billion gigabytes of unclassified unlabeled data living inside these environments so a lot of these organizations don't eve…”

0:35
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Founder-market fit: why you?

“Lean into your strengths you already know a lot about this given your background and that's why there's a saying founder market fit really matters why you right and there's something that is inside of you not only like y…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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