Spies, Start-ups, and Security: The Incredible Entrepreneurial Journey of Matt Holland: An EOFire Classic from 2022

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🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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From the archive - This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Matt Holland is a world leading cyber security authority. As founder, CEO and CTO of Field Effect, his mission is to democratize cyber security for the entire planet.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Working efficiently is great, but if you want to be successful, then hard work is an absolutely necessary component.

2. Caring about your people as your top priority - next to your customer - has to be your continuous mindset.

3. Take cyber security seriously, embrace it - it is not as scary as people think.

One solution. Seamless security. Total clarity - Field Effect

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0:00.0	Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire.
0:07.0	Brought to you by High Level, the all-on-one sales and marketing platform.
0:11.6	Today we'll be breaking down spies, startups, and security, the incredible entrepreneurial journey of Matt Holland.
0:18.3	Matt is a world-leading cybersecurity authority. He's the founder and CTO of
0:22.6	field effect, and his mission is to democratize cybersecurity for the entire planet. And today
0:27.7	we'll talk about taking cybersecurity seriously, caring about people as being your top priority
0:33.6	in working efficiently. But hard work is absolutely a necessary component and owe so much more.
0:40.3	And a big thing for sponsoring today's episode goes to Matt and our sponsors.
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0:50.7	businesses, and creates legacy income for their families through franchising.
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1:03.1	Visit franocity.com.
1:05.2	That's F-R-A-N-O-C-I-T-Y dot com.
1:20.1	Matt, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.
1:21.1	Hello, everybody.
1:24.0	I really, really appreciate this opportunity to speak today.
1:31.3	So I think, you know, I think the concept of hard work is getting a bit of a bad rap. There's a lot of focus nowadays on working more efficiently, which is great, working four-day
1:38.7	work weeks and whatnot. But I think if you want to be successful and if you want to be a successful
1:45.8	entrepreneur for that matter, hard work is an absolute necessary component. And you can be
1:51.7	more efficient and that's fantastic. But I think there's three main reasons why this is completely
1:56.5	a must have, I guess, the success formula. The first thing is hard work is the ultimate equalizer.
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