Adam Nygate - the Cybersecurity start-up journey

Welcome to the latest episode of the Zero Hour podcast and your host today is Karla Reffold. We are joined by Adam Nygate, Founder of 418Sec. Adam has taken the opportunity to work and live across Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia, before returning to the UK to work in security within the government. After working at BJSS, he opted to start 418Sec with the help of CyLon, the London cybersecurity accelerator. 418Sec was designed to help secure the world’s open source code. Key Minutes 05:00 - The idea of a start-up 09:00 - Starting a business on my own 10:30 - Using a accelerator 13:00 - Raising pre-seed investment 15:00 - Selling a product as a start-up 20:00 - Risk from source code 24:55 - How do you standout in a crowded market? 29:05 - How has the industry changed? 39:18 - Getting into the industry 42:20 - Ten Quick Fire Questions You can find Adam at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-nygate/?originalSubdomain=uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/adam_nygate?lang=en Website: http://www.418sec.com/ Follow us:
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