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

23:23 - Memories and lessons learned from their time at X

24:53 - Enter Project Chorus: Meet Steven and Suresh

26:11 - Solving the supply chain’s biggest blind spot

29:41 - From idea to execution: How Chorus took flight

31:07 - What Chorus offers today

34:26 - A deep dive into the tech

36:46 - The evolution of Chorus

40:27 - How Chorus achieves “System-Wide” visibility

44:17 - Why every item in the supply chain matters

46:07 - Behind the scenes: Funniest project moments

47:28 - How Chorus could fundamentally change the world

48:55 - Final thoughts

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Hosted by Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots, The Moonshot Podcast goes behind the scenes with creators and inventors trying to find radical solutions and breakthrough technologies to the world’s biggest problems. These are the untold stories of innovation from 16 years of Alphabet’s moonshot factory.

The Moonshot Podcast is a Pique Action production for X, The Moonshot Factory, produced in association with Blanchard House.

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