Erick Turricelli
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Erick Turricelli
@erick_turro
Co-Founder @gomrycom ⟨·⟩ President @siliconvalleyf


I sat down with Daniele Perito to talk about his new company @depthfirstlabs. He was previously on the founding team of Cash App and cofounder of Faire. We talked about the future of software security in the age of AI and what becomes possible for both attackers and defenders, what he learned from Cash App and Faire, and what's the same and different across these companies. Hope you enjoy. (0:00) Intro (0:40) The founding insight at Faire (4:34) Operational rigor of marketplace businesses (10:39) Starting a company in 2026 vs 2017 (12:01) The inception story of Cash App (16:22) depthfirst’s mission (18:08) AI security landscape (26:10) Security is a fantasy world (31:15) Building superhuman attackers for defense (38:27) Roles of humans and AI in security (39:14) Platform vs pipeline businesses



Some people want to ban billionaires. I love billionaires. They’re the last irrational actors left in capitalism. People don’t appreciate how difficult it would be to fund projects in longevity, space, fusion, etc without family offices and HNWs that can take crazy risks and have permission to be illiquid for decades. New venture funds themselves also rely on HNW checks to anchor before they develop a track record and institutions can come in. Venture funds underwrite legible risks, HNWs can invest on faith. I’d be happy if we had more of them, provided they use their wealth to invest. It’s certainly more valuable to society than funneling wealth to a bevy of variously-corrupted charitable foundations.

There’s something amusing about how Italy’s #1 tech startup has no VC funding (but raises debt) and acquires former VC-funded darling companies which are struggling Evernote Vimeo Meetup WeTransfer Hopin (the StreamYard part) Now AOL












A peek of what's cooking at depthfirst: our platform *autonomously* found a CVE!! CVE-2025-59305 is a critical vuln in Langfuse , an LLM platform with 16k github stars. The vuln risks db corruption and DOS. Thread 🧵on X (1/7); Full writeup here: depthfirst.com/post/how-an-au…













