157 - Craig Goodwin of Cyvatar: Valuable Lessons Learned Creating A New Company During The Pandemic

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157 - Craig Goodwin of Cyvatar: Valuable Lessons Learned Creating A New Company During The Pandemic

The Founders Live Podcast

Nick Hughes is joined by Craig Goodwin, COO and cofounder of Cyvatar and joins us from the UK. Craig is the co-founder of Cyvatar.ai, a game-changing cybersecurity firm that makes cybersecurity simple for businesses by providing fully managed, customer-centric security solutions. Cyvatar is the first member-based cybersecurity as-a-service provider (CSaaS) in the industry. Craig also leads Cyvatar’s product strategy, product management, and engineering functions. Nick and Craig quickly jump into a conversation that startups with his experience as an entrepreneur + how he became successful. They start with his background in military and defense space, why choose entrepreneurship and what really is entrepreneurship? They then talk about experience in pandemic and challenge traveling. We hear Craigs lessons learned creating a new company during a pandemic, how they are managing the remote/virtual team operations. The conversation shifts to what they are building, the danger of ransomware and what can be done to prevent it, what are the basics of cyber security? You will hear what is a checklist of basic cyber security for your organization, the different cyber risks that can prevail in any type of business, and how to stop them. Craig says, its not a problem to be fixed, it's a condition to be managed. They then shift to advice for early stage entrepreneurs, how to have better balance in life and business, being comfortable with uncertainty and enjoying the journey. We hope this episode helps you today! Find Craig on Twitter, linkedin, or email him - craig @ Cyvatar.ai. https://cyvatar.ai/