September 22 at Hacker Dojo: The Wiz Story and Product Pitches

Sidhdharth Sivasubramanian, co-founder and CEO of MeetStream AI, opened the evening with a Founder Spotlight on the challenges and experience behind his journey.

One practical lesson was to avoid spending too much time on a prospect who has no real need, no budget, or no authority to make a decision. He also described building more than 45 AI agents to support marketing—an example of applying automation inside the company rather than discussing it only as a product idea.

Daniel Slayton and Andy led the next session on the Wiz story, including challenges and lessons from the company journey.

The conversation also covered partnership opportunities and demand for security and cloud partner services, giving founders another way to think about entering enterprise ecosystems beyond selling a standalone product.

Bogdan Barchuk, founder and principal engineer behind Insomnia, presented the security platform he leads. Insomnia combines vulnerability scanning, SAST and SCA analysis, offensive-security tooling, reporting, and developer-workflow integrations.

The presentation made the product tangible for the room: a working security platform, its coverage, and the engineering scope behind bringing multiple security workflows together.

Sharan followed with a product built for the automotive industry. He used the live session to introduce the concept and walk the audience through what he had built.

The current event record does not yet include the product name or a public company link, so this recap leaves those details open rather than guessing.

Michael delivered the last pitch of the evening, extending the program from the featured sessions into another founder-led contribution.

His product and company details have not yet been verified. The photograph documents the closing pitch while the recap avoids attaching an unsupported name or claim to it.