Flagship Podcast
Agile Is Dead. The Best Engineering Teams Are Now 3 People. | Zaid Al Hamami, Boost Security
Zaid Al Hamami built Immunio in the early 2010s, sold it to Trend Micro, and is now back at it with Boost Security. He joins Nectar to talk about what changes when you build a cybersecurity company twice, fifteen years apart. The conversation traces Zaid's path from coding as a kid in Jordan to running product at Canonical, founding Immunio and navigating the RASP category consolidation, and the market insight behind Boost: securing software at the speed that AI now writes it. What gets covered: Why "if you build it, they will come" nearly cost Immunio its shot What Mythos actually changes for cybersecurity, and where it's overhyped The economics of running frontier models on every pull request (hint: tens of millions) Developer endpoints as the new CISO blindspot CI/CD pipelines as the next supply chain attack surface Why agile is dead and the best engineering teams are now three people How one major airline restructured 600 developers into 200 three-person pods Founder scar tissue from a first exit, and what ports over to the second company Plus the story of Zaid and Nectar being WeWork neighbors years before Amiral ended up investing in Boost.
