Building Overwatch: AI Agents for Threat Intelligence at Attacker Speed
Every founder looks for the moment when the work finally clicks. For Arjun Bisen, Co-Founder and CEO of Overwatch Data, that moment came from a simple realization: the tools meant to protect organizations weren't keeping pace with the people trying to harm them. After years working across diplomacy, Google, and Stripe, Arjun saw firsthand how manual and fragmented threat intelligence work still was. That gap became Overwatch, a platform using AI agents to monitor cyber and fraud threats at the speed attackers actually operate. In this episode of the Cult Products Podcast, Arjun talks through the founding story, what it really takes to sell honestly into enterprise security, how Y Combinator unlocked early credibility, and the parts of building a company that nobody fully prepares you for.
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