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Immigrant Student to Cybersecurity CEO in NewZealand |Ankita Dhakar|#S2#E5| nlsa Podcast|Anuvindh
She Built a Cybersecurity Company With NO Tech Degree | nlsa PodcastNo funding. No technical background. A new country. Ankita Dhakar still built two cybersecurity companies and now protects some of the biggest listed companies in Australia and New Zealand.In this episode, Anuvindh sits down with Ankita Dhakar, Founder & CEO of Capture The Bug and Founder of SecurityLit, to talk about breaking into cybersecurity from zero, validating a startup idea with 43 Chief Technology Officer interviews, and why the traditional penetration testing model is dying.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHAT WE COVER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➜ From destroying confidential documents to founding a security company➜ The Capture The Bug origin story, real-time penetration testing as a subscription➜ How she validated the idea with 43 Chief Technology Officers before building the product➜ Landing a stock-exchange-listed client through cold LinkedIn outreach➜ The number one skill to learn in 2026: communication➜ Roadmap for beginners: fundamentals, communities, Capture The Flag challenges➜ What she looks for in a CV , real projects over certifications➜ Being asked "who's the owner?" bias, identity, and staying rooted➜ Artificial Intelligence in penetration testing and why human-in-the-loop matters➜ Social engineering, phishing, and the simple call-back rule that protects her company━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 Introduction2:14 Why Cybersecurity?3:12 About Capture the bug5:04 How Capture the Bug works?6:10 Skill everyone should learn8:06 Most crucial survival habit9:40 How to get your first client?12:59 Road map to security15:12 What defines capability?16:18 Red flags in interview17:32 Challenges for women in tech18:45 Women in cyber security20:00 Advice for women in tech20:34 AI in next 5 years23:57 Useful communities25:48 Pen testing in Capture the Bug28:35 How to be secure?29:56 Vulnerable humans33:24 How Capture the Bug uses AI?35:47 Everything you learned when abroad38:41 Are certifications required?41:09 Don't judge by cover43:39 Rapid Round46:18 Why you should watch this?47:03 Learning from the past━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH GUEST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitadhakar/website : https://capturethebug.xyz/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/nlsa-podcast/id1747877449➡️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7fHYMG9X7f5z0a5RAXlfKi━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FOLLOW NLSA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nlsapodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Join Our Community :━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nzSubscribe for real conversations that decode success, systems, and mindset."Stories of yesterday for a better tomorrow."#NLSA #NLSAPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #SystemsThinking #Leadership #Tech #CareerGrowth #Podcast
24 Jun 2026
AI Is Building Followers, Not Builders | Elle Archer | #S2 #E4 | nlsa Podcast | Anuvindh
What if your biggest career disadvantage is actually your most valuable asset?Meet Elle Archer, who holds 13 roles across technology, governance, indigenous development and digital equity for a blunt conversation about the nonlinear path, the age of Artificial Intelligence, and why most people are being trained as followers instead of builders.She turned nearly three decades of "not fitting in" into a way of working no one else can replicate. In this one, she breaks down how she actually does it and what it means for anyone early in their career, switching paths, or wondering if they belong in tech.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WHAT WE COVER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━→ Why the system was never built for you and how to reshape it instead of shrinking to fit→ Adaptation and relational intelligence: reading the room and knowing what to push→ Builders versus followers: the real gap Artificial Intelligence is exposing→ The zoom-out / zoom-in framework she runs across 13 organisations→ The four skills that survive the Artificial Intelligence era→ Pattern recognition in two minutes the shortcut she compressed from decades→ A 30-day leadership-in-tech challenge you can start today━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CHAPTERS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━0:00 Introduction2:18 The disadvantage reframe4:22 Adaptation and relational intelligence7:01 Why women in tech stay few10:21 Equity, equality, unity14:09 Education for completion versus capability16:26 Builders versus followers in Artificial Intelligence19:29 The zoom-out / zoom-in framework29:10 Four skills that survive the Artificial Intelligence era43:20 Pattern recognition in two minutes46:00 Rapid round and the 30-day challenge━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH ELLE ARCHER━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elle-archer007/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/nlsa-podcast/id1747877449➡️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7fHYMG9X7f5z0a5RAXlfKi━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━FOLLOW NLSA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nlsapodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Join Our Community :━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nzSubscribe for real conversations that decode success, systems, and mindset."Stories of yesterday for a better tomorrow."#NLSA #NLSAPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #SystemsThinking #Leadership #Tech #CareerGrowth #Podcast
25 May 2026
The Bridge Between India and the World From Auckland | Jai Goradia |#S2 #E3 | nlsa Podcast | Anuvindh
Most people follow the safe path in finance. Jai Goradia didn't.He moved to New Zealand at 22 because of a cricket match, worked in investment banking, then quit to build something that had never existed anywhere in the world a platform that lets people outside India invest in Indian markets without an Indian bank account, documents, or infrastructure.In this episode of NLSA Podcast, Jai breaks down the real journey the career, the company, the setbacks, and the mindset that made it possible.==========================🕖 Timeline :==========================0:00 Introduction2:15 Why New zealand3:24 What made you interested in finance?4:42 How to be an investment banker?7:53 Role of education9:31 Building a fintech startup13:02 Biggest challenge14:46 Simple approach to invest17:07 About mutual funds21:32 Why invest in Indian market?25:07 Investment banker vs Stock broker26:46 Revolution by Indus29:04 Starting fintech business in Newzealand32:00 Skills for client relationship34:21 Rapid Round36:15 Red flags in resume38.10 Future of Indian market39.09 Frontier for fintech in Newzealand40.40 Is New zealand good for business?45.43 Get your first customers48.52 Future plans for Indus49.57 Final advice===========================Connect with us on Social Media:===========================➡️Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuvindhs➡️Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nlsapodcast➡️IG : https://www.instagram.com/nlsapodcast➡️TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@nlsapodcast ===========================Join Our Community :===========================🤝 Community Group : https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlsacommunity📧 Newsletter : https://nlsa.nz===========================Subscribe and Listen to the 🎙 nlsa Podcast 🎙 HERE:📱 ===========================➡️ YT: https://youtube.com/@nlsapodcast?sub_confirmation=1➡️ Apple: Coming Soon..➡️ Spotify: Coming Soon..
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