Uncapped #39 | Daniele Perito from depthfirst

Uncapped #39 | Daniele Perito from depthfirst

From Uncapped with Jack Altman by Alt Capital

January 14, 2026 · 45 min

About this episode

Daniele Perito discusses AI-native security and his experiences founding depthfirst and Faire.

Daniele Perito is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of depthfirst, an AI-native security platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find real vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow. Daniele is also Co-founder and Board Member of Faire, where he previously served as Chief Data Officer and helped build the company’s data, risk, and analytics foundations from the early days to a multi-billion dollar valuation. Before co-founding Faire, Daniele worked at Square and was on the founding team of Cash App, where he focused on security, fraud, and risk systems supporting products used by millions of merchants and consumers. We covered: Inception stories from Faire and Cash App The ultimate truth seeking machine Building superhuman attackers with AI Who wins over time: attackers vs defenders Why security feels like its own world --- Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:40) The founding Faire insight (4:34) Operational rigor of marketplace businesses (10:39) Starting a company now vs in 2017 (12:01) The inception story of Cash App (16:22) depthfirst’s mission (18:08) AI security landscape (26:10) Security is a…

People in this episode

Host: Jack Altman

Guest: Daniele Perito

Topics covered

  • AI security
  • founding stories
  • marketplace businesses
  • security challenges
  • technology in business

Keywords

  • AI security
  • depthfirst
  • Faire
  • Cash App
  • security vulnerabilities
  • business logic
  • fraud systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: depthfirst, Faire, Square, Cash App

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