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15 facts from 4 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2009
Todd McKinnon said that in 2009 he expected a cloud version of everything in the technology stack, which shaped his decision to start Okta.
“I remember in 2009, I was looking at the world and and saying, Hey, you know, there's gonna be a cloud version of everything in the stack.”
2010
Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A of identity company Okta in early 2010.
“a great decision that they make in early 2010 is they lead the Series A of Okta, the identity company”
2025
Todd McKinnon said he spent last year meeting Okta's hundred largest customers in person.
“Last year, I was in process of meeting, uh, meeting all our hundred largest customers in person.”
2025
Todd McKinnon said Okta's fall conference still featured the old pitch followed by agents, after which he decided to flip the focus to agents.
“We had our big conference in the fall, and, you know, it was like the last vestiges of the the old pitch, followed by the agents.”
2026
Nilay Patel said Okta has a market capitalization of about $14 billion.
“all that is a big business. Okta has 14 billion dollar market cap.”
2026
Okta's CEO was asked about the 'SaaSpocalypse' on a recent earnings call.
“Okta had earnings, you're on the call. They asked you about the SaaSpocalypse, which I I wanna talk about in detail”
2026
Todd McKinnon said Okta has about $3 billion in revenue, grew over 10% last year and has 20,000 customers.
“3 billion in revenue, um, growing over 10% last year, established brand, 20,000 customers”
2026
Okta organizes its research and development by two platforms: the Okta Platform and the Auth0 platform.
“On the R and D side, it's it's by platform. We have two platforms. There's Okta Platform and Auth zero Platform, and the R and D is by platform.”
2026
Okta announced a blueprint for the agentic enterprise with three pillars: onboarding agents as identities, standardizing connection points and a kill switch.
“Okta's announced a a blueprint for agentic enterprise. It's it's basically got 3 big pillars, right?”
2026
Todd McKinnon said Okta's kill switch revokes everything the agent can access rather than blocking access to the agent itself.
“the access to to everything the agent can access, not access to the agent.”
2026
Todd McKinnon said about 40% of Okta's business is authenticating customers logging into websites and mobile apps.
“40% of our business is, uh, authenticating and validating customers logging into, you know, customer websites and mobile apps.”
Undated
Todd McKinnon worked at Salesforce, where he managed a decent-sized team, before he started Okta.
“when I started Okta, you know, I'd worked at Salesforce and I had a, you know, decent-sized team there and felt like I was very decisive.”
Undated
McLuckie gives the example of configuring the AWS MCP server in read-only mode by exchanging an Okta token for a scoped AWS token, to prevent an agent from deleting an RDS instance.
“I want to use the AWS MCP server and I want to use in read only mode, right?”
Undated
DataRobot is working with a customer to integrate agents with Okta so that each agent has its own identity.
“we are working with a customer where we are integrating these agents with Octa, so that every agent has an identity”
Undated
Debanjan Saha says DataRobot's customer uses Okta as an agent identity management system to control agents' access privileges and shut them down.
“using Okta as an agent identity management system. That is one place from where you can control the access privileges an agent can have to various different internal information”
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