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Today's guest is Marcus Ryu, Co-Founder/Former CEO of Guidewire Software and General Partner at Battery Ventures, one of the longest-standing technology-focused venture and growth equity firms in the world with over $13 billion in AUM across its fund history.

Guidewire, which Marcus co-founded in 2001 and led as CEO for over two decades, became the defining platform for property and casualty insurance software — going public on the NYSE in 2012 and scaling to a multi-billion dollar enterprise serving hundreds of insurers globally. Today, Guidewire trades at a market cap north of $10 billion and remains the gold standard for core systems modernization in the insurance industry.

Since transitioning to Battery Ventures, Marcus has brought his operator lens to bear as an investor, focusing on enterprise software and the intersection of technology and complex, regulated industries.

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LISTENER DISCRETION: The views and opinions Mark shares on this podcast are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Brighton Park Capital. Nothing discussed today should be taken as investment advice or an offer or solicitation with respect to any securities. Any topics discussed today are for illustrative purposes only

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Today's guest is Mark Dzialga, Founder and Managing Partner of Brighton Park Capital, a Greenwich-based growth equity firm that has scaled to nearly $4 billion in AUM since its founding in 2019. Brighton Park invests in entrepreneur-led, growth-stage software, healthcare, and tech-enabled services companies, with a portfolio that includes Darktrace, Coralogix, HITRUST, Canary Technologies, Orca AI, and Orbital Witness.

Before founding BPC, Mark spent over 20 years at General Atlantic, where he chaired the Investment Committee from 2007 through 2017 and helped expand GA's footprint across Europe, Latin America, India, and Asia. He played a pivotal role in the growth and dominance of General Atlantic. Earlier in his career, Mark was co-head of the Technology M&A Group at Goldman Sachs.

In today's conversation, we'll dive into why Mark left one of the most respected growth investing platforms in the world to build his own, how he's navigating the so-called "SaaS apocalypse" and the AI revolution, what revenue durability really means today, the question of will AI make new jobs, how to adapt and embrace AI in white collared jobs, how Brighton Park wins deals in a crowded growth equity landscape, and his advice for the next generation of investors trying to break into the industry.

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Today's guest is Matt Moore, Co-Founder and CTO of Chainguard — the software supply chain security company on a mission to make the open-source ecosystem safe for enterprises everywhere.

Matt's background spans some of the most consequential corners of the cloud-native world. Before co-founding Chainguard, he was a core contributor to the open-source ecosystem and played a pivotal role at Google, where he helped shape the Kubernetes and supply chain security landscape that underpins much of modern software infrastructure today.

In today's conversation, we'll dive into Matt's journey from open-source engineering to founding a company, how Chainguard is tackling one of the most critical — and often overlooked — challenges in enterprise software, the philosophy behind building security into the foundation rather than bolting it on, what it takes to turn deep technical expertise into a venture-backed company, and his vision for the future of software supply chain security in an AI-first world.

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