How to build a training platform for cyber security awareness

If you’re inspired to start looking for where corporates have gaps with easy GPT apps, you’ll love the story in our latest 30-minute podcast. We spoke to Dan Thornton, co-founder of cybersecurity training platform GoldPhish.

Dan explains how initial engagements with CyberSec firms’ helpdesks led to a whole host of innovations and opportunities.

A few lekker highlights

1. Great things evolve out of hands-on experience

GoldPhish didn’t start as a big training platform, as Dan mentions here, they initially just entered with your standard training courses and programmes. But then, being in that space, Dan and team quickly learnt that the real issue for CyberSec is the human element, as he mentions here.

And it was from that moment of realisation onward that they could confidently build up the platform to what it is today.

2. This allowed them to fund development themselves

Going to market with an initial product and getting some clients first, quasi-service-based, Dan and team managed to generate some income initially and were then able to use that revenue to build the platform – almost no funding rounds required – which is awesome and savvy bootstrapping.

3. And the whole thing is run fully remotely

Don’t tell Dan full-on remote can’t be done. As he explains here, his co-founder is in the UK and he’s in Saint Francis Bay, so they started off working remotely and through the years assembled an amazing team of top tech people from all around the country.

Still working fully remotely, they use tools like Slack, Loom and a suite of Google products and basically meet face-to-face once or twice a year for, we assume, a bit of gees.

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