Craig Taylor spent two decades in corporate Cybersecurity watching companies train employees the same way, fear, compliance checklists, and the assumption that scaring people into good behavior actually works.
It does not.
He left to build CyberHoot, a cybersecurity training platform built around positive reinforcement and gamification instead of punishment.
In this episode, Craig walks through what that shift actually required: keeping his day job while building, finding a co-founder who filled the gaps he could not, and iterating through multiple versions of the product before landing on what works. He is honest about the moments he almost quit, what psychology taught him about how people actually learn, and why a decade in he is still in the trenches building rather than coasting.
If you are building a business in a space dominated by incumbents doing it the old way, this conversation covers what it takes to stay in long enough to find the model that works.
Connect with Craig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmtaylor/?skipRedirect=true
Learn more about our episode sponsor Max Capital Hub: https://maxcapitalhub.com/
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