How to Scale Success in Cyber with Serial Entrepreneur Stuart McClure (Recorded Live at GoSec 2024)

How to Scale Success in Cyber with Serial Entrepreneur Stuart McClure (Recorded Live at GoSec 2024)

Author: BKBT Productions September 23, 2024 Duration: 33:00
How do you know what's a winning idea? Serial cyber entrepreneur Stuart McClure sat down with us live at GoSec 2024 [https://gosec.net/] to record his thoughts on go-to-market strategies. Stuart was the founder of Cylance, the fastest company to record $100M in ARR, and he's the lead author on a book about hacking techniques. In short, he talks the talk and walks the walk. In this episode: 💡How to tell a genius idea from just a neat feature 🤝How to build and scale without repeating the same tired playbook 🧠 How a background in psychology equipped him with the skills for business ⚡️Why being able to make fast decisions is so important This episode was produced with the support of GoSecure [https://gosecure.ai/]. ———————— 🏆We've been nominated as Podcast of the Year for the SANS Difference Maker awards! Voting is open now through Oct 4.  🗳️ Vote for the show here: https://www.sans.org/about/awards/difference-makers/ Thank you for your support!

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