On October 12, 2016, over 600,000 insecure webcams and other devices joined the Mirai botnet, unbeknownst to the device owners. Mirai attacked an internet performance management company, Dyn, which was cofounded and led by Jeremy Hitchcock. The botnet took down Dyn and, consequently, popular services like GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, and Airbnb— huge swaths of the internet. It made the evening news, and Jeremy wanted to do something about it.  "What's crazy to me is that enterprise security and network management techniques have not migrated to the consumer networking space in the last decade," said Jeremy in his blog, Why Minim. And so, Minim was born. It is a sweet revenge story— but also a story about how we all deserve safe, reliable internet at home. Minim set out to help broadband service providers deliver just that.