Privacy Please S7, E267 - Your SOC 2 Won't Save You: Here's What Will with Girish Redekar, co-founder & CEO Sprinto
Feb 27, 2026
44:49
Cameron and Gabe sit down with Girish Redekar, co-founder and CEO of Sprinto, to pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood areas of security: compliance.
Girish built his first startup, RecruiterBox, to 3,500 customers before selling it, and it was the painful, expensive, duct-taped compliance process he experienced firsthand that sparked the idea for Sprinto. Today, Sprinto helps companies move beyond point-in-time audits into something far more valuable: continuous, autonomous trust.
In this episode, we dig into:
- Why passing a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit doesn't mean you're actually secure
- The three stages of compliance maturity — and how to climb them
- What "compliance debt" is and why it's quietly eating your business
- How smart CISOs use their security posture as a revenue driver, not a back-office cost center
- The "$100/month" challenge: what actually moves the needle for startups
- How AI is reshaping compliance programs — for better or worse
- Why Girish spent over a year talking to customers before writing a single line of code
Plus: the "sell more jeans" framework every CISO should know, Rich Hickey, The Mom Test, and the toilet paper question.
🔗 Find Sprinto at sprinto.com