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Sequoia Capital · 28 episodes with transcripts

A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most significant companies of our time. Crucible moments are pivotal decisions that determine your trajectory.

Spoken has transcripts of 28 Crucible Moments episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from December 4, 2025.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1705282398/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora - The Grudge That Transformed Cybersecurity

December 4, 2025

Nir Zuk (0:01)

Everybody thought we were crazy. Nobody would use the cloud for cybersecurity. Nobody would send cybersecurity related data to be inspected in the cloud and so on. And when I hear something like that, I say, of course, I'm going to do it, because it's the right thing. And if everybody believes it shouldn't be done…

Roelof Botha (0:24)

Welcome to Crucible Moments, a podcast about the decisions and inflection points that defined some of the most consequential companies of our time. I'm your host, Roelof Botha. In the 1990s, as businesses rushed online, a new cybersecurity industry emerged to protect the networks powering the internet boom. Among…

Nir Zuk (2:00)

I'm Nir Zuk, founder and shift technology officer at Palo Alto Networks. I was born in Israel in 1971, and as a teenager in the mid-80s, one of my hobbies was to develop viruses, some of the early computer viruses in the world, which landed me a job with Israeli Intelligence as part of my military service. And there…

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