> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://cje.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Bugcrowd 2013 to 2025 — People and Places - URL: https://cje.io/2026/02/09/bugcrowd-2013-to-2015-people-and-places/ - Published: 2026-02-09T19:02:54.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-18T07:49:19.000Z - Description: A photo retrospective of Bugcrowd from 2013 to 2025 — the people, offices, and moments that built the security crowdsourcing category from a Sydney garage out. - Author: Casey Ellis - Tags: Building, Personal ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/01-founders-portrait-1.jpg) Serge and I, pre-SF ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/02-most-likely-to-succeed-2013-1.jpg) Launch SV 2013 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/03-early-team-pub-selfie-1.jpg) The Aussie OG... and one of the only pics with all three co-founders - Serge, Chris, and I ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/04-casey-presenting-early-1.jpg) Pitching 500 Startups Demo Day. I found out later that my fly was undone, which is a mistake I'm fairly sure I only made once ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/E74A981F-8ABF-4C65-98C5-32F5861C4B71_1_102.jpeg) Raethke, Charles Beeler (RIP), and I, c. 2014\. If you ever wonder where the bird flip thing came from, here it is ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/05-sf-office-flags-panorama-1.jpg) Front St and the flag wall, one for every nationality represented in the team. Biggest of hat-tips to Bec for making that happen ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/06-conference-room-planning-1.jpg) CKO 2016 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/09-escape-room-team-tasers-1.jpg) ...and naturally the hacking team crushed the escape room ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/12-bug-bash-hackers-1.jpg) Facebook Bug Bash in Miami, c. 2018 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/13-grumpys-bar-presentation-1.jpg) Guerrilla marketing at the "overflow office" ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/14-hackers-focused-laptops-1.jpg) swagneto, digitalwoot, and jhaddix at the Atlassian Bug Bash, c. 2017 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/2023-10-02--7-.jpg) "We accidentally a t-shirt company" ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/15-international-hacker-team-1.jpg) Grace Hopper Has A Posse (This one is in Argentina) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/17-soldier-mentoring-hacker-1.jpg) Mini-busescanfly is mini, but mighty ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/19-levelup-hallway-red-1.jpg) Inside Mayhem at the Mint, c. 2018\. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/20-levelup-entrance-columns-1-1.jpg) The team did the most amazing job on these events... We'd have a line wrapping around the block ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/21-building-projection-elephant-1.jpg) More Mint ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/23-dj-booth-party-1.jpg) Fuzzy playing the Mint. The thing that worked about these parties is they were designed to be something for everyone - Loud, quiet, busy, sparse #ittakesacrowd ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/24-rsa-party-crowd-1.jpg) That said, "loud" made for the best pics. int80 (dualcore) playing Roadhouse, c. 2017 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/25-distil-bugcrowd-concert-1.jpg) "That time Coolio played a Bugcrowd event" ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/26-theater-venue-logo-1.jpg) Not sure where this was, but it was one of the first times we plastered the logo ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/30-monkeys-meme-panel-1.jpg) g33kspeed and I trying to recover from Hugh Thompson's Monkey Risk Management introduction ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/31-casey-panel-purple-1.jpg) Talking policy and hacker rights at Cyberscoop in DC (It was probably the second time Marten Mickos and I had shared a stage, and this pic tells the story pretty well) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/33-panel-discussion-office-1.jpg) The BOD doing Office Hours with the team, c. 2019 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/34-women-in-security-panel-1.jpg) WISP meetup in Front St, c. 2016 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/35-cycling-team-start-1.jpg) Canary Challenge, c. 2016\. Still got the bike and the jersey ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/36-exec-scooter-office-1.jpg) Art Coviello chaired our Board for a while. He also liked the office scooters ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/37-nyse-team-entrance-1.jpg) NYSE after our $102M Series E, 2024 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/38-nyse-trading-floor-1.jpg) ngl, this was pretty wild ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/40-team-dinner-pub-1.jpg) So many legends in this photo, early 2017 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/41-team-lunch-brick-wall-1.jpg) Secops/ASG, featuring "Edis the Octopus", shpend, troy, trauner, and jhaddix ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/42-casey-with-hacker-hoodies-1.jpg) No prizes for guessing what happened here. Naffy and I in Canberra, c.2018 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/44-highfive-kid-bike-1.jpg) Building bikes for kids, company CKO, c.2018 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/45-casey-with-colleague-1.jpg) Tim and I giving the Bugcrowd salute. Selfies with birds could be it's own (very long) blog post ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/46-team-selfie-party-1.jpg) Gasser, mishmosh, sam chau, Craigie, Katie and I at a Mint event ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/47-team-photo-rooftop-1.jpg) Bug Bash squad shot ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/48-polaroid-wall-memories-1.jpg) The polaroid wall in the Sydney Office ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/49-scooter-sf-street-1.jpg) The beginning of our IoT hacking phase ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/50-signed-boarding-pass-1.jpg) You know something is working when you get a four-S on your boarding pass... **by hand* ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ec/8a/ec8abb38-39b9-4422-95b9-695b2a5e652e/content/images/2026/02/39-bugcrowd-values-notebook-2.jpg) Founding key principles, Manager Training in San Francisco, c. 2016