The story of Mark Vos
Failure was the starting label
Mark’s relationship with technology began with the computers his school could suddenly afford: an Apple II, a Commodore 64, and a network that invited curiosity. The same student who struggled inside the formal system found an environment where taking things apart was useful. That tension became the beginning of a career rather than the end of an education.
Success did not settle everything
Three decades in cybersecurity brought senior responsibility, global work, and the promotion to partner that looked like a complete success from the outside. Mark remembers going home after that promotion to an empty house and crying. The title was real, but it could not replace relationships, resolve depression, or answer what success was supposed to feel like.
AI risk became public
An article about his Claude experiment escaped its original technical context and became a global media story about an AI threatening human life. Mark describes the calls, sensational framing, and pressure that followed. He remains optimistic about AI, but the experience sharpened his insistence that evidence, context, and accountability survive the headline cycle.