Meeting Robert Herjavec — The Shark Who Builds Cybersecurity

Most people know Robert Herjavec from Shark Tank, the investor sizing up entrepreneurs and writing checks. What a lot of people don’t know is that the business that made him a Shark is a cybersecurity company. The Herjavec Group grew into one of the largest security firms in the world.

I got to meet him, and the thing that hit me wasn’t the TV persona. It was where he started.

From nothing to a Shark

Robert arrived in North America as a kid, a refugee from communist Yugoslavia, with almost nothing. He’s talked openly about sleeping on a floor and working jobs nobody wanted, delivering newspapers, waiting tables, before he ever built a company. His whole story is that the gap between “nothing” and “something” is closed by showing up relentlessly, not by waiting for a lucky break.

That resonates with me. Braintek didn’t start as the company it is today. It started in our living room, with my wife Tracy making calls while I worked a graveyard shift. The growth came from doing the unglamorous work, over and over, for clients who counted on us.

Why a Shark bet his career on cybersecurity

Here’s the part business owners should pay attention to: one of the sharpest investors on the planet looked at every industry he could have chased, and built his fortune protecting companies from cyber threats. He saw, years ago, that security would become the thing every business depends on whether they realize it or not.

He was right. The small and mid-sized businesses we protect here in Houston and DFW are targeted constantly now, precisely because attackers assume they don’t have a security budget the size of Robert Herjavec’s. The good news: you don’t need one. You need the right layers, watched by people who actually pay attention.

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