Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joined John Coogan and Jordi Hays on TBPN to discuss Socket's $60 million Series C led by Thrive Capital, the company's 500%+ ARR growth over the past 12 months, and why software supply chain security has moved to the top of the priority list at nearly every company.

The 10-minute conversation covers three forces converging right now: AI generating more third-party code than ever before, frontier models surfacing massive volumes of vulnerabilities across operating systems and open source libraries, and attackers increasingly targeting open source components as a way into thousands of organizations at once.

Feross also walks through what's coming for open source maintainers as AI-driven vulnerability discovery enables a future with far more disclosures than the ecosystem has ever had to absorb. When maintainers can't keep pace with patch review, vulnerable code sits exposed with no upgrade path for downstream users. Socket Certified Patches close that gap so teams don't have to wait on upstream fixes. He also covers the recent cluster of supply chain attacks that hit in a single day.

Watch the full conversation below.