In this episode, Brock talks with Josh Steinman.

Josh is a former navy officer who served in a variety of roles including the chief of naval operations rapid innovation cell and the office of the secretary of the navy task force innovation. After his time in the Navy, he went on to work on the national security council advising on cyber policy, an issue he's particularly passionate about. Josh has worked to launch several startups including an American made wool stocks company that crowdfunded over 50,000 dollars on Kickstarter and most recently Galvanick, a company looking to secure industrial operations from cyber attacks.

We talk through the importance of building a feedback loop on your life in order to get closer to reality, that past and present of cyber security and what Galvanick is looking to do in the industrial space, and the basic frameworks for startup founders.

You can follow along with Josh and Galvanick on Twitter.

Topics:

(02:20) - What Josh thinks is important in life

(08:10) - How is required for us to get closer to reality

(11:40) - Working at Chief of Naval Operations Rapid Innovation Cell

(14:25) - Why it takes so long to implement change in the DoD

(16:35) - Building in public; the case to or not to

(24:00) - Social media, the echo chamber

(27:15) - Introduction to cyber security

(30:00) - An emerging threat; everything becomes a computer

(35:00) - Building companies for the world we want or the world that exists

(38:10) - What was the inspiration for starting Galvanick

(42:40) - Galvanick timeline from inception to today

(46:00) - Venture vs bootstrapping a startup

(53:30) - Building and scaling a team

(57:30) - Importance of understanding the problem being solved

(01:01:00) - Tools and resources for founders/startups

Resources / Links discussed:

Galvanick

The Embedded Entrepreneur

Books: The Mom Test / Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek (fourhourworkweek.com) / Scott Adams - How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Appearance on Pomp Podcast

The Steinman Mentoring Program

Resources for Starting a Company

Whether you’re in the service for four years or twenty, you have learned skills, led teams, and learned what it takes to execute under pressure. While those past successes are valuable, they don’t always translate to a life or career when you get your DD214.

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