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Matt Moore and the Art of Fixing the Defaults
A brisket photo became a startup text. Years of building container tools had prepared Matt Moore for a larger argument: the safest software should be the easiest software to use.
Dan Lorenc and the Problem with a Trusted Download
Dan Lorenc became uneasy when strangers ran the first Minikube release without asking who built it. A decade later, the Chainguard co-founder is still trying to make that question impossible to ignore.
The Founder Who Couldn’t Sit Still
Kim Lewandowski helped turn the hidden plumbing of open source into a product people could trust. After building Chainguard, she is starting again - this time with developers in the new AI world on her mind.
Ville Aikas and the Cost of Making Software Easy
He helped give developers a faster way to run software. Years later, an assumption about what they would run became the problem he chose to tackle.
Liz Egan Builds Companies by Making Marketing Feel Like Something
She learned marketing on the job, helped take Yext public, and still insists the discipline cannot live by dashboards alone. At Chainguard, Liz Egan is putting a company builder’s instinct behind the quiet machinery of secure open source.
Arsham Memarzadeh
Arsham Memarzadeh is a General Partner at Meritech Capital in Palo Alto, where he leads enterprise software and infrastructure growth investments. He arrived in early 2025 after six years at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he helped lead the growth practice and backed Wiz, Chainguard, Verkada, ClickUp, Axonius, Personio, Enable, Payhawk, and Spiff.