On today’s episode of the Defense Tech Builders podcast, Josh speaks with Bob Ackerman, Founder and Managing Director of AllegisCyber Capital and Co-Founder of DataTribe. They discuss the ways in which these companies are helping to start and grow new companies in cyber and data science, and what it looks like for start-ups to work with the government on furthering innovation. They also discuss what start-ups should know when pursuing a government contract, how the relationship between private/government partnerships has changed, and current defense tech trends.

Topics discussed:

• How Bob founded his first company — which created the original iPhone — and what Silicon Valley was like back in the 1980s and 1990s.