Nate Lee: Building a GenAI Security App for Fun (and No Profit) | Season 2, Ep 10
Source: YouTube · SANS Cloud Security · published Dec 19, 2023 · 50:07
Nate Lee, CISO at Tradeshift, shares his journey from getting an Apple 2E at age five in a non-tech Minneapolis family to becoming a cybersecurity leader in Silicon Valley 0:04.
Key Takeaways:
• Nate currently serves as CISO at Tradeshift, providing context for his personal and professional origins 0:08.
• Growing up in Minneapolis, his father was a bus driver and his mother frequently started businesses—far from a tech-focused household 0:26.
• His tech passion ignited early at age five when his parents bought him an Apple 2E computer 0:42.
• Nate would secretly stay up late "hacking away" and stuffing clothes under his door to hide the light, a self-driven passion that ultimately led him to Silicon Valley 0:48.
This early, self-taught foundation in technology propelled Nate from his Midwestern roots into a leading cybersecurity role.
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hello and welcome to the Sans Cloud Ace podcast I'm very excited to have on the show today Nate Lee who is the ciso at Trad shift Nate thanks so much for joining us hey thanks Frank glad to be here all right well hey as we like to do let's go ahead and start uh the show here with a little bit of personal history so Nate can you tell us a little bit about your family where you grew up things like that sure sure so I'm originally from from Minneapolis uh so Midwest um grew up there my well my dad was a a bus driver and my mom kind of had started uh lots of her own businesses So a non-te family let's say but um uh my parents had got me an Apple 2E when I was five uh and uh I spent many nights stuffing kind of close under the crack of my door so they wouldn't see that I was kind of hacking awa…