Tech Paired Podcast | #1 | Birthdays Not Missed: Building Quorum Cyber with Federico Charosky, CEO
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Federico, CEO of Quorum Cyber, traces his journey from Buenos Aires to building one of the UK’s fastest-growing cybersecurity firms. We dig into the brutal truths of leadership, AI’s real impact on security work, why SMBs are targets, and why your security program should favor platforms and simplicity. We end on quantum risk and a surprising metric: birthdays not missed. Quorum Cyber (founded Edinburgh, 2016), operates across the UK and North America with 400+ employees and around 500 customers.
Chapters:
- Welcome
- Origin Story: Buenos Aires to Scotland
- The Scale-Up Arc: Bootstrapped -> PE -> M&A
- Don’t Chase the Number
- Who Should be a Founder?
- The Worst Part of the Job
- How the Team Sees Me
- Seasons of Balance
- Delegation
- What’s Change in Cyber
- Talent in the AI Era
- Crime-as-a-Service
- Why SMBs Get Hit
- Inside an Incident: Contain -> Eradicate -> Recover
- Platform, Not Patchwork
- From Firewalls to Identify & Data
- Why This Work Feels Meaningful
- Quantum: Act Before It Arrives
- Society, AI & Purpose
- Close
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