Serial entrepreneur Alisdair Faulkner already has a $1 billion-plus exit under his belt, but when you ask him about his experiences starting and scaling cybersecurity companies to date, he describes them as “apprenticeships”.

The 50-year-old from Darwin co-founded and sold cybersecurity risk management platform ThreatMetrix for more than $1 billion in 2018, but he is only just at the beginning of his main act, this time as both the co-founder and CEO of fraud prevention platform Darwinium.