Company + Product

Back in February of this year, we closed our Series A round of financing. We haven't announced it until now - we've been too focused on building our product, our team and making our customers successful. Now that enough people are asking we wanted to communicate more broadly about the investment, our backers and how we're putting those funds to…

Every great technology company starts with a great product. When you first start the hard work of turning your vision into living, breathing code, you have critical decisions to make about your foundation. It is critical to “build your house on a rock." In years past the decisions were desktop or web app? Oracle or SQL Server? Unix or NT? Now the…

I've interviewed over 300 folks in the last 2 years while building the Okta team. Most have been product development folks. One topic that often comes up is Agile development. As in "do you guys do Agile?", or "at company xyz we exclusively practiced Agile". Few terms in interview land are more overloaded than "Agile". Whenever a candidate has …