Author

Casey Ellis

Hacker, founder, advisor, and pioneer of crowdsourced security. Founder of Bugcrowd, co-founder of disclose.io, principal of Tall Poppy Group. Board member at SRLDF.

leadership

Becoming CEO

The goal of a founder is to do everything. The goal of a CEO is to do nothing.

By Casey Ellis · 30 Sep 2015
Building

On Cogs and Levers (strength in diversity)

A dear friend of mine was a linesman with a national telco for 17 years. He drove all around Australia pulling copper. He’s got some great stories, has fond memories of h

By Casey Ellis · 16 Mar 2015
Building

8,000 Miles + 1 Wife + 2 Kids + 1 Startup = ???

I remember when I first landed in Silicon Valley in April of 2013. Bugcrowd was 3 months old, and we’d seen enough early traction with mainstream customers for us and o

By Casey Ellis · 15 Mar 2015
Thinking

Humility (n)

I know am strong, and also know where I’m weak makes me even stronger.

By Casey Ellis · 19 Feb 2015
Building

Sales and Marketing — the good, the bad, and the Ugly

The good: * Introducing someone to something that genuinely serves a need that they have (marketing) and having them accept it on terms that are agreeable to both of y

By Casey Ellis · 18 Feb 2015
vulnerability-disclosure

disclose.io — Driving safety, simplicity, and standardization in vulnerability disclosure.

disclose.io is a collaborative and vendor-agnostic project to standardize best practices around safe harbour for good-faith security research. The project expands on th

By Casey Ellis · 22 Jul 2014
Building

Some Thoughts from pushstart’s Mentor Connect

Kim Heras and the Pushstart crew put on another Mentor Live event last night. Think speed dating for start-ups and mentors. I was privileged to get to participate as a

By Casey Ellis · 15 Dec 2012
Hot Takes

iPhone 5 First Impressions

My wife and I were among the hordes who queued up for an iPhone 5 this morning. First impressions on iPhone 5: * Fast. Like really, really fast. Super fluid and resp

By Casey Ellis · 20 Oct 2012
Building

Your Idea Sucks

tl;dr: I love your idea. I want to hear about your idea. Please, do not interpret this post as me stifling your idea. But an idea without a commitment to execution is

By Casey Ellis · 24 Sep 2012
Hot Takes

iPhone 5 First Impressions

My wife and I were among the hordes who queued up for an iPhone 5 this morning. First impressions on iPhone 5: * Fast. Like really, really fast. Super fluid and resp

By Casey Ellis · 20 Sep 2012
Security

Bugcrowd — the Premier Crowdsourced Cybersecurity platform.

Bugcrowd is the premiere crowdsourced security platform. More enterprise organizations trust Bugcrowd’s Crowdcontrol platform to manage their bug bounty, vulnerability di

By Casey Ellis · 31 Aug 2012