Emily Long
Special guest
Emily Long is the CEO and co-founder of Edera, where she leads a team building hardened container runtimes to secure cloud infrastructure from the ground up. Before Edera she was COO at Chainguard, and her career has spanned finance, HR, and operations before moving into deep tech. She co-founded Edera with Ariadne Conill and Alex Zenla in 2024.
Emily Long has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 122: Hardened Runtimes, the CEO Job, and Raising as an All-Woman Founding Team, with Emily Long
April 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 7 mins
Whitney and Coté talk with Emily Long, CEO and co-founder of Edera, about building a hardened container runtime that secures infrastructure foundations instead of chasing detect-and-respond alerts. Emily describes why "zero days as the new hotness" makes structural security worth the effort, and how Edera lets teams swap in a new runtime without re-platforming. The conversation also covers her jump from COO to CEO, what actually changes when you're the one absorbing every decision, and what it's like raising a deep-tech Series A as an all-woman founding team.