Peter Garraghan is the founder and CEO of Mindgard, a university spinout that works with organisations to secure their AI systems against emerging threats.

In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Garraghan discusses using technology to address real needs, finding an organisational system that works for you and how founders often underestimate the value of time.

What one thing do you wish you’d done differently when launching your company?

There is a tremendous amount of trial by fire when it comes to running a company. If there was one thing I would have done differently, it would have been identifying and avoiding activities with higher likelihood of sunk cost. Another one would be knowing what messages/outreach are worth qualifying, and which ones are noise.…