Rak Garg
Rak Garg focuses on supporting founders building at the frontier of cyber-security, space, defense, industrial capacity, and other areas of national importance.
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I was born in a small suburb of New Delhi
My father began his career there as a support engineer at DEC, which created the world’s first firewall. His fascination with the burgeoning internet security business carried my family to Sunnyvale when it was still the land of cherry orchards. I was fortunate to grow up tinkering. In 6th grade, I got into game engine modding and, much to the dismay of my school-teacher mother, spent more time on first-person shooters than on homework. In high school, my nights and weekends were devoted to experimenting with Kali, lurking in IRC, and reading back-issues of Phrack. Computers made sense to me in a way that most things didn’t. I studied anything but security at UCLA: computer vision, electronics, and teleology as a basis for public policy. I returned to the Valley to build and eventually lead security products at Atlassian, a BCV company. In some ways, BCV guided my career before I even knew it. Product management ingrained in me that a special team can move mountains. I think the same applies to venture.
Helping the unlikely become inevitable
I like working with founders that come from unlikely backgrounds. People who didn’t start a company because it was the ‘cool’ thing to do. People who are relentlessly motivated to totally change their industry because they can’t imagine any other way of being. I competed in a lot of martial arts as a kid. I was terrible at it: rigid, unathletic, and slow. Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday for 8 years, I went to class and learned a new way I could lose a sparring match. I wish I could say I had a master plan to eventually win; I just couldn’t imagine quitting. The founders I love working with most have chips on their shoulders and an irrational belief in themselves. Because I do too. If you’re building something inevitable, drop me a line at rgarg@baincapital.com
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Helping AI-native teams ship better products by unifying feedback, design, and engineering.