S1E5 - Stuart McClure, CEO Qwiet AI, CEO Wethos AI - AI for High Performing Teams

Stuart McClure is one of the foremost cybersecurity experts in the world and a serial entrepreneur with successful exits. He has built successful products leveraging ML & AI for cybersecurity. Stuart's career started at E&Y where he advised global corporations and C-suite leaders on cybersecurity risks. He is an author of the highly popular book Hacking Exposed which has helped many defense teams secure their IT environments and company assets. Leveraging this experience, Stuart cofounded Foundstone, a security risk and vulnerability assessment company, which was acquired by McAfee, where he went on to become EVP and Worldwide CTO. Subsequently he founded Cylance, which pioneered the use of AI in cybersecurity for discovery and proactive protection from attacks. Cylance was acquired by Blackberry. Stuart is also a student of psychology and his new company, Wethos AI, leverages AI to codify traits and cognitive biases of individuals to build high performing teams. The number, 5342, is Stuart's Wethos style.

Key Highlights:

- AI in Cybersecurity: Has the cybersecurity industry lost its way?
- Self-evident Value: How to effectively articulate value and demo your product?
- Services revenue vs Product revenue: How to resolve this tension?
- Hiring: How to avoid mistakes in hiring, rectify bad hiring decisions, and hire for culture fit?
- The Next Generation Workplace: Can AI predict work style and behavior at work?
- Aligning Vision & Culture: Can AI create alignment inside a company?
- Individual Assessments: Can AI predict success or failure in a specific position in a specific company?
- Wethos AI, the "Ethos of We": What is the science behind high performing teams?
- Getting acquired into a large company: How can leaders protect the hustle?
- What the very first evidence of civilization has to do with collaboration?

Connect with Stuart McClure:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcclurestuart/

Referenced in this episode:

• Burn the Boats by Matt Higgins (book)
• Good to Great by Jim Collins (book)
• Dunning Kruger Effect
• Spotlight Effect