The Digital Trail

This episode of The Moonshot Podcast explores two ambitious moonshots focused on bringing "visibility" to the world's most complex and opaque digital and physical systems.

First, Astro is joined by Mike Wiacek, Stephen Gillett, and Shapor Naghibzadeh from Chronicle to discuss how they built a digital immune system for cybersecurity, using Google-scale data analysis to detect anomalous activity and combat a global economic threat.

Next, Astro speaks with Steven Chen and Suresh Vishnubhatla from Chorus, a moonshot focused on indexing the physical world to address monumental supply chain waste and inefficiency.

0:00 - Intro

01:25 - The "A-ha" moment that started Chronicle

03:35 - Rethinking the future of cybersecurity

05:17 - Building a "Digital Immune System"

11:35 - The terrifying scale of cyberattacks 10 years ago

13:08 - Understanding the 3 tiers of cybercriminals

15:46 - How Chronicle differed from other cybersecurity tools

19:27 - The “Coming Out” party: taking the tech public

21:12 - Returning to Google