Cryptography & Startups: Insights from CipherStash's Dan Draper

Summary

Dan Draper is CEO and Founder of CipherStash, a data-storage platform that helps customers keep data secure. As well as being fascinated by Cryptography and data security, for most of Dan's career he's either been a founder or worked in the leadership team of startups, so has plenty of experience in both business and getting into the nitty gritty details of technical problems. 

In this episode Dan chats with Cole Cornford about Cryptography, the challenges and rewards of founding a company, best practices for securing funding for a startup, and plenty more.

Timestamps

 - 2:00 - Dan's career background

 - 8:00 - Dan's lessons from working in government

 - 9:30 - When Dan became obsessed with cryptography

 - 12:40 - Reflecting on Dan's 1st failed business

 - 17:10 - The founding of CipherStash

 - 23:40 - Managing data a major challenge in large orgs

 - 28:00 - Different types of data breaches

 - 32:00 - Potential and limitations of AI in cybersecurity

 - 37:00 - Experience raising money for a startup

 - 44:10 - Dan's 3 tiers of investors

 - 46:00 - Rapid fire questions

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