The Beginnings Of Cyber Security with Ron Gula

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

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5.0 • 420 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Ron Gula is the president of Gula Tech Adventures, a company that focuses on cyber technology, cyber policy, and recruiting more people to the cyber workforce. When Ron didn’t get into flight school, he used his free time to focus on computers and started working in the early beginnings of cybersecurity in the mid 90’s. In NSA, he worked with one of the first cloud companies and created an intrusion detection system that sold in 18 months with his wife. Although Ron thought he would continue to create technologies and sell them, he went on to create his next company, Tenable Network Securities. -- The Exit - Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by flippos a 30 minute podcast featuring amazing entrepreneurs
0:15.4	who have been there and they have done it. The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold
0:19.6	businesses of all different sizes all over the world. Do you learn how they did it? Why they did it
0:25.3	and get exposure to the world of exits. It's a world occupied by a small few but accessible to many.
0:32.0	And on this episode I sit down with Ron Gula. He's a fantastic entrepreneur who has been around
0:39.6	many many different businesses including one that he raised $50 million for $300 million for
0:47.8	and then it went public. He went through an exit that took 18 months prior to that and has an
0:54.3	extensive extensive resume of exits over the years. He has some really great knowledge nuggets in
1:00.4	terms of how entrepreneurs can get ready for an exit and really just walks us through the process
1:07.2	of how he was running a company that had 600 employees at one point and then it scaled all the way
1:16.8	to a public company and at breakneck speed and growing that fast surrounding yourself with great
1:23.6	people and making sure those people are able to support you through that is a key component. He talks
1:29.9	a lot about cybersecurity working with you know the NSA and things like that and a really fantastic
1:35.8	entrepreneur. I love talking to people like Ron who have gone around all these different types of
1:41.0	businesses and just have a great understanding of business and what it takes to really start a
1:47.0	business and scale it up to hundreds of millions of dollars. So without further ado let's jump
1:53.1	right into my interview here with the president and co-founder of Gula Tech Adventures,
1:58.2	Ron Gula. All right guys today I am joined by Ron Gula and he is the president of Gula Tech
2:07.6	Adventures. How's it going today Ron? It's doing great Steve. Pleasure to be here. How are you?
2:12.8	I'm doing great. I'm excited to dig into this a little bit deeper. Before we get into your multiple
2:19.2	exits let's talk a little bit about your background. What got you into business initially?
2:24.9	So I'm a I'm a doubly and you know of course all doubly is going to create you know a billion dollar
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