# 1st Time Founder Award Winner - Ashley Rose Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect/1st-time-founder-award-winner-ashley-rose Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect/1st-time-founder-award-winner-ashley-rose.md Podcast: [Austin Tech Connect: The Podcast For The Austin Technology Ecosystem, Business Leaders, and Tech Entrepreneurs!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect) Published: 2024-06-11T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://a7b1cb29-8eb2-4801-9ccb-e0eb899497ab.libsyn.com/1st-time-founder-award-winner-ashley-rose Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/a7b1cb29-8eb2-4801-9ccb-e0eb899497ab/ep_78_ATC.mp3?dest-id=3729132 Processing state: failed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/austin-tech-connect/episodes/1st-time-founder-award-winner-ashley-rose Duration seconds: 2390 ## Resource On this week's episode of "Austin Tech Connect" Thom Singer sits down with Mike Siegel from VeUp and Ashley Rose from Living Security. Mike is a board member for the Austin Technology Council and his company, VeUP, was the sponsor of the "First Time Founder Award" that was presented at the Austin Tech Hall of Fame event on June 4, 2024. On this episode he shares his overview of the event, and shares why his company was a supporter of ATC for this new Hall of Fame and First Time Founder Award program. We are joined by the winner of the 2024 First Time Founder Award, Ashley Rose. She is the co-founder and CEO at Living Security. Once you hear this conversation, it will be clear why ATC selected Ashley as the first person to win this award. About Ashley Rose As the CEO and Co-founder of Living Security, Ashley Rose is the driving force behind Living Security's push to lead the Human Risk Management industry. She has successfully raised more than $25 million in funding to scale the business, pivoted the company from solely in-person training to a fully digital platform, and has led the company to be named an industry leader in the Forrester Wave. She co-founded Living Security based on the philosophy that empowering people is the best approach to lasting security behavior changes and breach prevention. She is an industry thought leader, sharing her unique perspective on the evolution of cybersecurity with various publications including Forbes, TechRepublic, Darkreading, Security Magazine, CyberWire and Cybersecurity Ventures. About Living Security Living Security, the global leader in human risk management, transforms human risk into proactive defense by quantifying human risk to engage humans with relevant content and communications to change human behavior. Living Securi… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/austin-tech-connect/episodes/1st-time-founder-award-winner-ashley-rose/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/austin-tech-connect/1st-time-founder-award-winner-ashley-rose.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.