Long Angle is a private, vetted global community of accomplished entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals who have reached meaningful financial milestones and want to navigate wealth with peers who understand their challenges, opportunities, responsibilities, and ambitions.
Hosted by the founders of the Long Angle community, Navigating Wealth is a podcast for founders, executives, and investor operators who have built significant wealth. Each episode features a guest with an unusual career journey and deep expertise across some aspect of the economy, investing, family, health, or lifestyle.
Today we're thrilled to welcome Jason Passwaters, co-founder and CEO of Intel 471, a leading cyber threat intelligence company. Jason is a 12-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran who specialized in counterintelligence and interrogation before transitioning to the private sector. He worked as an FBI contractor tracking cyber criminals through network forensics, then co-founded Intel 471 in 2014, growing it to $20 million in ARR without outside funding before partnering with private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Today, Intel 471 employs 250+ people globally and provides threat intelligence to Fortune-level enterprises and governments.
Key Topics Covered:
• Practical cybersecurity steps for individuals with $10-20M+ in assets
• Why most financially motivated cybercrime is opportunistic, not targeted
• How modern ransomware operations function like professional SaaS companies
• The professionalization of cybercrime with affiliate programs and customer support
• Real stories of tracking cyber criminal crews in Russia and Eastern Europe
• How corruption undermines international law enforcement efforts
• What Intel 471 does: exposure monitoring, threat intelligence, and threat hunting
• Why AI is Jason's biggest concern—lowering barriers for attacks at scale
• The journey from Marine Corps interrogator to bootstrapped cyber CEO
Links:
• Jason Passwaters on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jspasswaters/
• Intel 471: https://intel471.com
• Long Angle Community: https://www.longangle.com/apply-now-nw
