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An inside look at the genesis and triumph of mobile security pioneer LiveView Technologies

"To take a camera and stick it outdoors and then to be able to live stream it anywhere on the planet to any device was unheard of when we founded the company," said Steve Lindsey, CTO/CIO and co-founder of Live View Technologies (LVT). That was in 2011, when LVT came on the scene to disrupt CCTV and the physical security industry.

In 2005, Ryan Porter, co-founder and CEO of LVT, was working in construction financing when he thought of putting a live camera on home construction sites so owners could see their properties being built. It was a great idea whose time hadn't quite come, so along with his colleague, Bob Brenner, co-founder and EVP of Hardware and Manufacturing, they worked on creating a solution. Their early efforts were a hit with local construction companies, and it was clear their tech approaches had the potential to do greater things. Six years later, David Studdert and Lindsey rounded out the founding group, and the rest, as they say, is history. Today, LVT is renowned for its innovative mobile security solutions.

"When we first founded the company, we weren't trying to be a security company by any means. We were just looking at the value of live streaming video for project management," said Lindsey, an expert in cloud and enterprise computing who came from outside the security industry. "When I came in, I'd already seen some of the solutions and some of the problems being solved in various ways in cloud computing and IT business tech stacks, so applying that to the security industry was very exciting."