Replies to post #19429 on Validian Corp fka VLDI

[The Penny Preacher]

When you add the fact that unlike the cybersecurity programs often cited on this forum by some, at the insistence of their Channel Partners, OEM's, ISV's, customers and prospects Validian apparently made the decision approximately three years ago to make fundamental MAJOR changes to VP's capabilities, compatibilities, and marketability, you get a better understanding of everything Bruce has been doing.

As some have pointed out on this forum ad nauseam, any programmer with average skill can create a cyber security program built upon the foundation of the failed technology of the past four decades. And there is no doubt, Bruce could have done the same. But from the beginning, almost from the day he took the helm of VLDI over a decade ago, it is obvious he was thinking outside of that box. He wanted to create something that actually solved the cybersecurity problem not just put another band-aid on the hemorrhage.

He did that with the original version of VP that was PC based, and as I recall, it appeared that VLDI was preparing to roll out that version of their product as early as 2012-2014. At least, that was when they came to my attention.

Of course, we now know that was the same time the world was coming to the conclusion that Mobile was the wave of the future and PCs were the antiques from the past. Therefore, NOTHING would have been gained by Bruce pursuing recognition of their PC based product. There is no doubt they could have sold it, and perhaps even sold VLDI as well, but for pennies on the dollar of what VLDI will soon be worth. I for one am thrilled that Bruce made the decision to take the company a new direction that IMO will make VLDI worth high single-digit and perhaps even double-digit $Billions instead of a few $hundred million.

JMHO

TPP

[The Penny Preacher]

It is my understanding that things began to dramatically change for Validian as soon as they introduced their first truly mobile version of VP to their Channel Partner approximately three years ago.

I may be incorrect in my assumption, but it is my understanding that prior to that, VP was primarily a Windows-based PC product that incidentally worked on SOME of the Mobile devices of the world.

It is especially difficult for most of us to grasp the tremendous number of advancements and changes that have occurred in technology in this century, and especially in the past seven years. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the world of communication.

It is easy for us to sit here in 2017 and make comments about how long it has taken Bruce Benn to bring a product to the market. But it would be helpful, IMO, to remember that when Bruce came onboard as CEO on May 6, 2005, no one on Earth had an iPhone - they did NOT EXIST. The Internet as we now know it had existed for about ten years, and communication experts were still debating whether it would ever become commercially successful or not. Most of the world was still using DIAL-UP MODEMs, and it took longer just to log onto one's Internet account than it now takes to download a full-length movie or the entire Wikipedia data file (which was actually IMPOSSIBLE to do using a modem anyway).

In those days, which OS was going to be used was still a MAJOR corporate decision for most companies because once the decision was made you were STUCK with that choice. Most Microsoft users were still using Windows 2000, and it was not unusual to find companies and private individuals who still had at least one DOS-based computer somewhere in the mix.

For goodness sakes, the first Blackberry device had only been on the market for five years and the experts were still betting that they would never survive.

And it was in THAT world that Bruce Benn was supposed to make the marketing decision to create and PERFECT a cybersecurity program that would protect the data created and used by the largest corporations and governments of over 100 nations communicating in over 100 different languages, using a mix of Windows, Apple, Blackberry and Android devices, on Windows, Apple and IBM PCs, as they tried to communicate on a worldwide basis with myriad versions of the fledgling mobile devices that were popping up on the market like rabbits, none of which had enough market share or clout to even be sure they would be in existence five years later let alone be the standard to which all other devices would have to adhere.

FAT CHANCE.

JMHO

TPP

[Surwin]

The key to success isn’t just in the product, its features, or its price. It’s marketing. The worst product in the world can become the most popular through marketing, and the best product can wither away and disappear

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And the one thing you can bet big money on is that negative software reviews will come faster than positive ones.

I could not agree more, but after 17 years in the making, by now VLD should be so secure that they have something no one else has and none of this should be a problem. Rather they should welcome the reviews if positive and that is what marketing is all about, building product awareness to stimulate sales. That is if the product is what Bruce claims it to be and that is the big if. So the only fear on negative reviews is if they see the product for what it really is and it does not meet up to expectation. This is exactly my point, this is what VLDI and Bruce have to fear!