In 2017, Filip Kaliszan pulled an all-nighter at the Beverly Hills Equinox.
A luxury gym isn’t the obvious place to work through the night, but for Kaliszan, it was a serious opportunity. Just 15 months earlier, Kaliszan had cofounded physical security tech startup Verkada, and now Equinox, the prominent fitness chain, was giving him and his startup a shot. Equinox had agreed to install some of Verkada’s still-very-new cameras in one of its most high-profile locations. At the time, Kaliszan was still personally doing installations with early employee Raj Misra. So, when Equinox called, the two flew to Los Angeles from San Francisco, cloud-enabled cameras in hand. Kaliszan, a two-time entrepreneur and photography enthusiast, showed me photos he took that (long) night.
