The Story Of Driscop With Idris Ayoade
Our guest in this episode of Ace Founder is Idris Ayoade, founder of Driscop Limited.
Idris is one of those founders you come across on LinkedIn and just have to get on the show.
A threat intelligence analyst turned entrepreneur who spotted a problem hiding in plain sight — 20% of the UK's 5.9 million small businesses get cyber-breached every year, and most of them never saw it coming.
In this conversation, Idris shares the story behind Driscop — an AI-powered cybersecurity platform helping small businesses detect threats before they click, not after they've lost everything.
📚 What We Talk About:
00:06 How a career in infrastructure engineering led him to cybersecurity and eventually Driscop
06:37 The story behind the name Driscop.
09:17 What Driscop does — from AI threat detection to training nudges that teach you to think before you click
14:50 How they landed their first pilot customers.
24:22 The £50,000 invoice fraud story that shows exactly why small businesses need this
30:23 The biggest win — getting selected from 500 applicants into the Barclays Black Founder Accelerator
34:37 The biggest lesson — why trying to do everything at once is the fastest road to burnout
💭 Key Quotes:
"Getting someone interested is not the same as getting them to become a customer."
"We are encouraging people to think before they click, not click before they think."
"The biggest win isn't one event. It's seeing Driscop move from an idea in my head into something people are willing to test, challenge, and help develop."
"It's better to not be busy and do the right stuff than to be busy doing a lot of stuff that leads nowhere."
"Filtering the noise in the midst of the chaos — that's been the biggest lesson building Driscop."
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