BPD Guest Speaker: Cybersecurity Entrepreneur Matt Mahvi

Come by the first hour of Professor LaBran's Business Plan Development class in Room C301 this Thursday to hear Matt Mahvi speak about his own entrepreneurial journey as a cybersecurity founder.

This event is open to anyone who is interested. Please RSVP so we have an idea of how many seats will be needed.

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Mr. Mahvi's family migrated to the United States when he was two years old.

Mr. Mahvi began operating in the field of cyber security at the age of 12. He started his first company in the space at 15, and has started and operated three successful companies, the last of which, Staminus, specialized in global DDoS mitigation and effectively stopped millions of attacks. He pivoted the company in 2012, added nearly 100 brand-name customers, protected about 1% of the Internet, and lead the company to acquisition four years later at 14x revenue.

Mr. Mahvi has extensive experience designing and operating cyber security solutions, data centers, cloud software solutions, and global Internet backbones. He specializes in advanced low level software architecture, as well as hyper-scale projects requiring secure data communication.

He has three technical cyber security utility U.S. patents and has personally been involved in stopping more than 3.5 million individual attacks. He has written several well-received articles, publicly presented at conferences, sat on several cyber security panels at renowned events, traveled to 45 countries, and speaks three languages.

Organizational Details
Legal Name of the Organization: Vrazo, LLC
Organization Profile:
35% of all Android phones are hacked out of the box, brand new. That means medical records and any other data is at risk. These phones tend to be used by poorer people. Developing populations pay the same for mobile broadband as we do in more affluent nations. Our new cyber security company aims to improve Internet access by reducing the cost of mobile broadband for underserved developing populations around the world. We do this via an application that sits on your phone, laptop, or other Internet-connected device. The application is free and has no registration. Once it runs, it sits in the background and 1. Reduces your overall cost of mobile data usage by about 20% 2. Makes your internet faster when you have poor reception 3. Adds anti-virus features to your device. We do all this for $1/year. Our goal is to deliver this service to 100 million people within 24 months. This would translate to about $2Bn/year being transferred back to the developing world. This translates to more food on their table. More information at their disposable. An overall improvement in their quality of life.

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