How to take your company from startup to unicorn

Cybersecurity entrepreneur Brian Murphy built a company from nothing to a valuation of more than $1 billion. His road there had "no pause button."

  • By Brian Murphy
  • | 5:00 a.m. December 2, 2022
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My story is different than what you hear from most technology founders.

I didn’t graduate from (or drop out of) an Ivy League school like Harvard or Stanford. I went to Florida State University. I grew up in a small town outside Jacksonville, having no idea what entrepreneurship was except for what I saw on TV.  I didn’t relocate to Silicon Valley to start ReliaQuest.

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