Security Confidential

A Discussion with Ilya Bodner Found of Bold Penguin


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Ilya Bodner joins us on Security Confidential. Ilya is the found and CEO of Bold Penguin a highly successful technology company serving major insurance companies. Ilya has created a great company and achieved great success. He has received much recognition including business executive of the year and Columbus Business First 40 under 40 Class of 2019.  In this episode Ilya discusses:

00:00 Introduction 

01:34 Journey from Russia to the CEO of Bold Penguin 

05:00 Partner/Co-Founder Relationships 

09:03 Three legs of the stool for business success 

14:25 Lessons from working with VCs 

17:40 How to land your first customer 

23:26 Origins of the name Bold Penguin 

26:00 Why pick insurance as the prime sector for a tech startup? 

28:53 Competing with insurance companies on their own products 

32:14 Is cybersecurity a business problem or an IT problem? 

35:47 Making cybersecurity accessible to SMBs 

36:37 Should cyber insurance be tied to effectivity of implemented controls? 

39:40 What does a startup enthusiast do next? 

41:25 Career opportunities at Bold Penguin

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