Episode 384 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Thomas “TK” Kinsella, Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer of Tines.

The success of Tines is not based on luck. The company’s co-founders experienced a major problem that wasn’t being being solved by existing platforms and after talking to peers who were also dealing with the same problem, they decided to do something about it.

But, it wasn’t just an idea that got them to where they are today. This team was uniquely qualified to build the next generation solution based on TK’s and his Co-Founder & CEO, Eoin Hinchy’s many years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, plus a history of working together for something like 15+ years at Deloitte, eBay, and DocuSign.

Tines empowers teams to build, run, and monitor their most mission-critical and sophisticated workflows. The company recently announced a $125M round of funding at a $1.125B valuation and is co-headquartered in Dublin and Boston.

In this episode of our podcast, we cover lots of great topics like:

* A discussion about the cybersecurity industry and the platform shift to AI.

* TK’s background story growing up in Dublin and some mutual geeking out on rugby.

* Starting his career in cybersecurity at Deloitte where he met Eoin, plus lots of details about what they worked on at eBay and DocuSign.

* Getting Tines started from the early days and all the details about the platform today.

* Why they hired a top designer as one of the first employees in the company and the importance of making products that are easy to use.

* Details on the latest round of funding and what’s next.

* And so much more.

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