Many founders build a single company, take their exit, and step back. Mike Walters has done it twice.
First with Netwrix, and now with Action1, Walters has a track record of building highly successful cybersecurity companies, laser focused on a specific niche.
What set Walters on this path?
It began with writing software. An early appreciation of scale and the realization that writing code alone couldn’t deliver impact fast enough pushed him and business partner Alex Vovk toward executing their own product vision.
From here, the pair launched Netwrix and Action1 into profitable, founder led businesses with no outside capital or investor pressure. Today, Netwrix is a multibillion-dollar organization with thousands of employees.
With Action1, Walters and Vovk are doing it again—but with even bigger ambition. They reinvested $20 million of their own capital to build a cloud-native platform engineered for the remote-work era. The bet has paid off. Action1 is now the fastest-growing private software company in America.
In this episode, Expert Insights’ Head of Content, Joel Witts, sits down with Mike Walters to explore his career and how patching is an often overlooked area of cybersecurity - as well as the parallels between building a company and surfing.
