O. Sami Saydjari is the founder and president of Cyber Defense Agency, a premier, professional services firm specializing in cybersecurity. With thirty-five years’ experience, he has published more than a dozen technical papers, presented research, and was named an NSA Fellow in 1993 and 1994 by the Director of the NSA.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had to become an expert in 20 different fields in order to set up a one man company that then became a shell to then hire in lots more people, that infrastructure took me about 6 months to set up a basic infrastructure”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Book by Daniel H. PinkFavourite Quote:
“There’s no situation so bad that panicking won’t make it worse”
Recommended Online Resources:
None specific
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Think carefully about where you’re going and take steps every day to get there because if you don’t time and the environment will make decisions for you and it will generally not be in the direction of where you really want to go so having your eye on where you’re headed and not getting lost in the day to day transactions that will take you so far in a direction that you don’t want, that it’s no longer the company that you want to work in even though you created it. That’s what you have to avoid”…[Listen for More]
More About Sami Saydjari:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Life isn’t going to give you all the answers to your problems. You have to search, diligently, for the answers that can change your life. It will be trial and error at first, maybe even for a long time, but when you find the answers that allow you to live your life in bliss it will all be worth it.” Avina Celeste
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sami Saydjari:
- “Understand what makes people tick”
- “You have to have a vision and a passion to do something that’s new, different, innovative, that nobody has done. That to me is 90%”
- “If it was easy everybody would do it, it’s hard, it requires long hours, I requires failure, somebody once told me that fast failure is very important, you’re going to fail and you need to recognise quickly that you’re failing and that that approach doesn’t work so try something else
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