Rishi Bhargava is Co-Founder at Descope, a developer-first authentication and user management platform. In a career spanning over 20 years, Rishi has run product, strategy, go-to-market, and engineering for category-creating cybersecurity startups and large enterprises. Before Descope, Rishi served as VP of Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks which he joined via the acquisition of Demisto. Rishi was a co-founder at Demisto where the company pioneered the “security orchestration” category before being acquired. Prior to Demisto, Rishi was VP and GM of the Datacenter Group at Intel Security and launched multiple products at McAfee (acquired by Intel).
Tackling the build vs buy conundrum
There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to the “Build vs Buy'' decision, but there are ways to make it clearer, and easier.