Gavin de Becker

I've got some core truths.

Wow.

The main function of my company is anti-assassination.

So we develop and deploy anti-assassination strategies.

Under that, under assassination, which you can consider the worst possible outcome, are lesser outcomes like other kinds of crimes.

destruction of reputation, threats that are designed to cause anxiety and fear.

We have a division that does assessment of threats and management of threats.

We have a division that does actual protective coverage.

That's the biggest division, meaning actual physical protectors, fit, young, capable people, not retired ex-cops who are overweight and on their second career, but people who are really trained for this specific field.

Armored vehicles, modifications to homes.

Basically everything that fits into the category of preventing or disrupting efforts to do tissue damage.

So we're in the business of preventing tissue damage.

All of the names that I do it for are never spoken by me.

So I don't say who clients are and I don't say who they aren't because if I say to you so-and-so isn't a client, that is information that might reveal that somebody else is or something you heard is true or not true.

The way I can describe it to you, though, is to say that it's if you took the 20 people you would assume fit into this category or the 50, most of them are clients.

That's right.

If a client identifies me or it happens because I testify in a court case or something, that's a different animal.

It just doesn't come from, I view myself as sort of like a psychiatrist or a doctor.

I wouldn't be the one revealing it.

Right.