Cybersecurity - We Built It Because We Had To

Jul 30, 2026 41:13 S1E28

From Government CISO to AI-Native Security Founder (Robert Wood)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth AI and machine learning Cybersecurity Career transitions

His hardest problem wasn't hackers — it was a 500-person security organization whose specialist teams couldn't speak the same language.In this episode of We Built It Because We Had To, …

Jul 23, 2026 45:19 S1E27

Selling "Chaos" to the Fortune 100 Almost Killed His Company (Kolton Andrus)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Cybersecurity Infrastructure and DevOps

His pitch — "let us break your systems on purpose" — thrilled engineers and terrified the Fortune 100 executives who signed the checks. So Kolton Andrus did something few founders …

Jun 09, 2026 21:06 S1E17

Inside the 64 Billion Identity Breach Data Lake — Andres Andreu, CEO of Constella Intelligence

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Cybersecurity Data and analytics

Andres Andreu sits on one of the richest datasets in cybersecurity — nearly 64 billion breached identities — and for years growth still stalled. The problem was never the data. …

Jun 04, 2026 26:58 S1E16

Exploitation Validation: Beyond Blinking Red Dots (Karen Nguyen)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Cybersecurity

Most companies build their front door out of glass — and the guard dog is asleep all day.That's how Karen Nguyen describes the security gap her company exists to close. …

May 21, 2026 23:46 S1E12

50 Customers, One US Patent, and a Tool That Plays Nice (Stephen Franklin)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Cybersecurity

Most cybersecurity vendors win by telling the buyer their existing tools are broken. Stephen Franklin filed a U.S. patent on doing the opposite.In this episode, Stephen — Founder and CEO …

May 14, 2026 16:29 S1E9

Don't Hire That Full-Time CMO Yet — Here's Why (Eyal Dror)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Cybersecurity Sales and marketing

In this episode, I'm joined by Eyal Dror, Founder of Vicious Marketing and CMO of Bright Security. We talk about his path from VP of Marketing at a gaming company …

May 05, 2026 32:31

PodcastFrom Phone Hacking in the 80s to OT Cybersecurity (Patrick Miller)

Founder stories, tech, startups, entrepreneurship, business, business growth Cybersecurity

In this episode, I'm joined by Patrick Miller, Founder and CEO of Ampyx Cyber. We talk about what OT cybersecurity actually covers (the SCADA controllers running your local water plant, …