Christina Cacioppo, Founder & CEO, Vanta

About this episode

Christina Cacioppo shares her journey as the founder and CEO of Vanta, emphasizing the importance of discipline and customer engagement in building a successful business.

In this episode of The Social Radars we talk to Christina Cacioppo of Vanta. Christina is a case study in agency. She actually did all the things founders know they ought to do but don't have the discipline to. She taught herself to code. She solved an unsexy but real problem. She focused on talking to customers instead of investors. She even put put off raising a Series A (despite inbound interest) till Vanta had $10M in ARR.

People in this episode

Host: Jessica Livingston

Guest: Christina Cacioppo

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• founder stories
• customer focus
• business growth
• agency

Keywords

• Vanta
• Christina Cacioppo
• entrepreneurship
• business discipline
• customer engagement
• Series A
• ARR

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vanta

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