@DawnDusk I was wondering how Mike Janke managed to make enough money to get involved in cybersecurity VC (he'd need probably $10 mil plus), so I did a bit of digging. Turns out the first company he started was:
The
SOC government services page speaks for itself:
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Basically military glowie stuff, staffing FOBs, doing security for embassies, etc. Presumably Mike Janke had a big network of guys from the SEALs who he could reach out to in order to get this off the ground. The business model for contractors like this is basically to take ex-military or glowies who are all trained up and cleared already, poach them to work for a private sector firm, and then charge the government several times what it would cost to hire them directly. Why do this? Good question. The military industrial complex works in mysterious ways.
It looks like they branched out more into general federal cleared contracting, but my guess is it started with solely providing guys for jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan given how the company was created in 2003. That was incredibly lucrative, with even unskilled grunts making six figures just for putting up with the shithole conditions and hazards. And the contracting companies would take a 25-50% cut off the top. So that explains how he had the cash to get into tech investing. He likely made a ton of money off that sale, depending of course on when he sold, how much investment he needed to get it off the ground, etc. Interesting how he kind of minimizes that now though in favor of the tech stuff.
Janke has also been involved in some interesting events that caused drama in the security community. First there was
Silent Circle pulling their warrant canary shortly after all the Snowden leaks happened, and then Janke was involved in a
weird story about Supermicro getting supply chain attacked that took ages to be substantiated (and I'm still not sure if it was ever proven outside of "the FBI said...").
Honestly this guy seems too high-profile and smart to do DDOSing or any nonsense like that. If he were to get involved, it would probably involve throwing piles of money at lawyers to bury Null in lawsuits, not skiddie shit. If he's smart, he'll just wait for this to blow over and then move Bella out of the country for a few years, somewhere with private security and no internet connection.