How did The Chainsmokers get interested in digital privacy, incident response, software supply chain security, and anti-spyware tools?
How did The Chainsmokers get interested in digital privacy, incident response, software supply chain security, and anti-spyware tools? And how did Pall, a celebrity DJ who performs all over the world , end up partying at Black Hat? He broke it down for us. Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. WIRED: I'm super curious, where does the security and privacy specialization come from? Alex Pall: I gotta give credit to Saveena [Mandadi, a Mantis investor and director of operations] who's definitely the leader of that space for us. She's done a terrific job building out our thesis around the space. But going back a little bit further, you look at our portfolio, and it probably seems a bit out of character for how you would imagine two musicians to be investing their time and money. And that was very much intentional. When you're an artist with a platform like ours, you're getting sought out for two things: distribution and marketing—consumer-...