“ SCALING While I wouldn’t necessarily claim expertise in scaling a business, I have been successful in transforming a nascent enterprise into a more established one. My core competencies lie in nurturing the growth of a business from its initial stages to a more mature and stable phase. The process of expanding a business from a handful of clients to a large-scale operation is indeed a challenging endeavour that demands dedication, strategic thinking, and adaptability. SELLING or undergoing the acquisition of a business, is a complex and emotionally taxing experience, rife with unique challenges and obstacles. The process entails relinquishing control over an entity that you have poured your heart and soul into, which can be difficult even if you continue to work there post-acquisition. “ were creating, the data we had, and more. After a while, one of these community members came to us with a proposal. They were much more connected than us, with a stronger understanding of enterprise sales and a network we couldn’t say no to. Please give us some exclusivity and details about the sale which are not in the public domain? TurgenSec was acquired by a private equity holding company that specialises in selling intelligence technology direct to the intelligence community. Confidentiality won’t allow me to name the company, their clients, or pretty much anything about them. For that reason, the only information I can really disclose is vague. When we were acquired, we were working on tooling that would allow our bulk data collection engine to scale up to the largest in the world, giving us access to a pool of data multiple times bigger than every enterprise and most governments. The tooling would make the Philippines government data breach and responsible disclosure (which potentially compromised thousands of witnesses and civil, military and private investigations) look like chump change. Will you continue to grow several other startups or are you looking at scaling yourself to be CEO of a big MNC (multi-national corporation) one day? I would love to become the CEO of a big MNC one day, but I seriously doubt I have the capabilities at the moment to fulfil that role. I currently intend to continue working in the national security and information security space pushing forward the OSINT space and trying to highlight the risk of nth party supply chain breaches. I’m addicted to startups, and so I’ll be staying in that space for the time being. www.ceotodaymagazine.com 41
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