The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal
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Founded 6+ years ago by Vidit Agarwal, The High Flyers Podcast (THF) is a global top ranked show exploring the personal and professional journeys behind the most relatable role models shaping our world.
Enjoy 250+ in-depth (and often rare) conversations with the world’s most influential and relatable role models in business, tech, finance, government and sport -- going beyond the headlines to explore their life and work including their formative years, inflection points, industry insights, and how they think, lead and build.
Episodes are listened to by CEOs, C-Suite Executives, Investors, Founders, and Government Leaders across Australia, USA, India, UK, Singapore, Canada and New Zealand.
Alongside the podcast, we host an annual High Flyers Growth Summit in Sydney and San Francisco.
This podcast is one of five products under our parent company, Curiosity Centre.
We're proud that more than 60% of our 250+ guests have trusted us for their first-ever public interview — or to go in-depth on their personal story for the first time. These include:
Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister of Australia), Jason Collins (Head of BlackRock, Asia Pacific), Brad Banducci (CEO, Woolworths), Anil Sabharwal (Global VP Product, Google), Elena Verna (Head of Growth, Lovable), David Haber (a16z Partner), Jodie Auster (Uber's Global Head of Travel), Rob Giglio (CCO, Canva), Jean-Michel Limieux (CTO, Shopify and Atlassian), Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta), John Haddock (CBO, Harvey), Mark Suster (Partner, Upfront Ventures), Niki Scevak (Partner, Blackbird), Craig Tiley (CEO, USA Tennis), Michael Schneider (CEO, Bunnings), Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel), Paul Bassat (Partner, Square Peg), Bowen Pan (Creator, Facebook Marketplace), Sweta Mehra (Executive GM, NAB), Peter Varghese (Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Australian Government), Sam Sicilia (CIO, Hostplus), Jack Zhang (CEO, Airwallex), Tim Doyle (CEO, Eucalyptus), Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (CEO, Xero), Rod Hamilton (CPO, Culture Amp), Sanjeev Gandhi (CEO, Orica), Philip Green (Australia's Ambassador/High Commissioner to India), Vivek Bhatia (CEO, MUFG) and more.
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#258 Cristina Cordova: Linear’s COO on Catching Taxis Alone to School, scaling Stripe as the 28th hire and more
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May 26, 2026 |
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#257 Elena Verna: Lovable’s Head of Growth on Learning English Through SpongeBob and the Growth Playbook in the AI Era
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May 20, 2026 |
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#256 Shernaz Daver: Khosla Ventures recent CMO on being Indian-American, Standing Up to Steve Jobs, Building Netflix & Waymo Brands
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May 12, 2026 |
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#255 Proserpine, State Treasurer at 30, Lost His Seat Live on TV at 35, Now Chairing Australia's Top Institutions | Andrew Fraser
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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#254 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser: How I became COO of Vercel and CBO of Stripe by influencing in engineering led companies
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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#253 Andrew Fraser: Halter’s President on Digging for Uranium in Africa to Building Cows Tech worth $2.9B
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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#252 Ethan Choi: The Aussie-Korean-American leading the Khosla Ventures Growth Fund, in his first ever podcast interview
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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#251 LIVE from EvokeAG: Accessing alternative capital, and what it takes to move innovation into real-world adoption
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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#250 Rob Giglio: Canva’s Chief Customer Officer on Staying Relevant, Drivers of Canva’s Growth, Choosing Impact Over Titles
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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#249 David Haber: a16z General Partner on Living in the Grey, Building Compounding Advantage and Goldman Sachs Acquisition
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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#248 Vivek Bhatia: Early Bollywood Aspirations to Global CEO — Hard Won Lessons from MUFG, QBE and Wesfarmers
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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#247 LIVE from EvokeAG: Tina Funder & Lucie Semenec on Building Fossil-Free Materials and Reinventing Fashion Supply Chains
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#246 David Neal: Oxford Engineer to $240B Global Investor, Building a Sovereign Wealth Fund and Financing AI Infrastructure
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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#245 Jodie Auster: Uber’s Global Travel Lead on Being Yourself, Leadership in Practice and the Questions That Scale Teams
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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#244 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Xero's CEO on Intensity as Superpower + Kryptonite, Father’s Influence & Xero's 3×3 strategy in the AI era
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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#243 Tushar Apte: From Sydney to Broke in Hollywood to Producing Global Hits for Nicki Minaj, Steve Aoki & Chris Brown
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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#242 Mark Suster: Jewish-Latino Roots, Building Upfront & LA’s Tech Scene, Selling to Salesforce, Why Timing Beats Brilliance
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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#241 Startup collapse to $21M a16z raise: Sphere's Nick Rudder on Aussie Grit in the US, Selling to CFOs and Superhero wife
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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#240 Philip Green: Australia’s Most Senior Diplomat in India — High Commissioner to India (Special series w Australian Government)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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#239 Eucalyptus’ Tim Doyle & Alex Badran Debate Data vs Judgement, Building Without Paralysis and Dreamers vs Leavers
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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#238 Inside a Top LP’s Mind: Beezer Clarkson’s Path to Sapphire and Why Legendary VCs Started Small
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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#237 Brendan Dowling: Deputy Secretary of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure, Australian Government
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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#236 Matteo Franceschetti: Starting Eight Sleep, High Performance, Helping Elon Musk Sleep Better, Learning English at 20
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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#235 Steve Hind: Forging Lorikeet’s Exponential Growth With Unlearnings from Bridgewater, Stripe and Debating
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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#234 John Haddock: Rare Interview with Harvey’s CBO — Phoenix Desert Trails, Decade Scaling Stripe, AI in Law
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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#233 Peter Varghese: "One of the most influential architects of foreign policy" (special series with the Australian Government)
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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#232 Jason Collins: Leading BlackRock with Empathy — From Professional Tennis Aspirations to Sweden to Global Finance
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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#231 Sweta Mehra: Executive GM at NAB; ex-Chief Marketing Officer at ANZ (special series with the Australian Government)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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#230 Bowen Pan: The creator of Facebook Marketplace — Immigrant Upbringing, Working w Zuck, unpacking world class product building
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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#229 Jack Zhang: The Relentless Founder of Airwallex — From Rural China to Building a $8B FinTech Powerhouse
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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#228 Sam Wong: The Blackbird Partner Redefining VC — Lessons on Identity, Courage and Building a Venture Fund While Pregnant
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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#227 Richard Joffe: The Founder Who Wouldn’t Quit — 3 Startups, 300 Rejections, a Divorce, and a $1B+ Legacy
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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#226 Bharat Sundaresan: Sports Commentator, Writer & Storyteller (special series with the Australian Government)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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#225 Andrew Penn: The Untold Story of Telstra’s CEO — High School Dropout, Art, Scorecards and Calm Leadership
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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#224 Chris Wirasinha: Building Pedestrian TV & Linkby, Navigating AI in Publishing, Raising Two Kids & unpacking "GEO"
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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#223 Lisa Sthalekar: 4x World Cup Winner & ICC Hall of Fame Inductee (special series with the Australian Government)
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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#222 Tim Thomas: From Melbourne to India, Singapore and Malaysia; How leadership changes in Financial Services and Government
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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#221 Kelly Vohs: SafetyCulture's CEO on becoming a US Army Green Beret, Inverted Pyramid Leadership and Building for 100M Workers
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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#220 Trent Cotchin: One of AFL’s All-time greats on Staying Grounded and Leading Richmond Tigers to 3 Premierships!
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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#219 Sanjeev Gandhi: Managing Director & CEO, Orica (special series with the Australian Government)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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#218 How Husband-Wife Duo Pip & Amy Turned Redundancy & AI Into "Springboards"- Raising $5M to Inspire Creativity
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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#217 Elena Verna: Leading Growth at Lovable (the World’s Fastest-Growing Startup today, Reaching $100M in 8 Months)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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#216 Max Marchione: The 25 year old defying credentials and how "Superpower" Is Redefining Healthcare
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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#215 Brendan Hargreaves: Officeworks CFO on Quiet Influence & Finance Mastery in public and private companies
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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#214 Simon Molnar: Jewellery store learnings to building Afterpay with his brother Nick and now redefining retail with Flagship
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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#213 Dr. Bec Sheean: FightMND’s Research Director on Beating Motor Neurone Disease + AFL, Beanies & Big Freeze
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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#212 Shannon Scott: Skiing, Building Palantir as employee #100 to Leading product at Airwallex globally
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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#211 How Go1 Promotes From Within ft. their CEO, SVP Marketing & VP Product (Playbooks Report Feature)
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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#210 Heidi's US & UK Expansion — Lessons from the Startup Growing Faster Than Canva (Playbooks Report Feature)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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#209 Andrew McCarthy: Leading Notion in SEA, India, AU/NZ; Rowing, Grandfather's influence, Learning Sales at LinkedIn
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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#208 Simon Baume: Raised on Logic, Hardened by Chaos — The Eucalyptus COO’s First-Ever Interview
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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#207 Craig Tiley: Rare Interview with One of Tennis’s Most Influential Minds — Army Discipline and Transforming the Australian Open
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May 27, 2025 |
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#206 Employment Hero’s Ben Thompson: Business builder, Demistifying Employment and His Son’s Rare Disease
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May 20, 2025 |
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#205 Gill Findlay: Rare Interview ft. the Powerhouse COO Behind SafetyCulture & Immutable; Career Planning & "Friend" over title
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May 13, 2025 |
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#204 Miro’s Founder Andrey Khusid (LIVE): Rare Interview — Scaling from Whiteboard Tool to $17.5B Giant with 90M+ users
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May 06, 2025 |
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#203 Airtasker’s CEO Tim Fung: Asian-Australian Roots, Happiness, Formula 1 sponsorships, and public company realities
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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#202 Brad Banducci: Woolworths CEO in a Rare Interview on Identity, Intrapreneurship & Why Directionally Correct Beats Perfect
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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#201 Carol Schwartz: Pioneering Philanthropy, Driving Boardroom Change, Founding The Women's Leadership Institute & Raising 4 Kids with Purpose
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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#200 Malcolm Turnbull: Australia's Former Prime Minister (in his most in-depth interview ever)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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#199 Farnaz Azmoodeh: Iran to LA, Mastering Engineering at Google, Monetising Snapchat, and becoming CTO at Linktree
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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#198 Max Bausher & Brian Swift: From Twitter, Atlassian & New Relic to Twine - Cracking Product + GTM by Turning Customer Conversations into Action
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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#197 Rory San Miguel: 40-Hour Weekends, Building Propeller, Winning Enterprise Deals, Going Global—And the Secret Behind His Relentless Optimism
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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#196 Piruze Sabuncu: Diplomat Aspirations, Stripe's first hire in SEA to becoming a VC at Squarepeg in Singapore
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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#195 Steve Vamos: Former Xero, Apple & Microsoft CEO Shares His Playbook for Scaling Companies, Building Winning Teams & Mastering Transitions
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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#194 Laura Henshaw: Modelling Struggles to becoming 'Kic' CEO; Empowering Women, Financial Independence & Embracing Authenticity
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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#193 Paul Naphtali: From PR to VC—What Sequoia-Backed Startups Taught Me, Building Rampersand & How founders win!
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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#192 RØDE Founder Peter Freedman: Swedish Outsider, High School Dropout, Insecurities, Building a Global Audio Empire
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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#191 Aliavia VC’s Marisa Warren: Grandmother’s Legacy, 3 Redundancies, Redefining Venture Capital for Female Founders
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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#190 Rod Hamilton: Rare Interview ft. Culture Amp’s Co-Founder on Playfulness, Empathy, and Redefining Workplace Culture
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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#189 Matt Kean: Chair of Australia’s Climate Authority & Former NSW Treasurer on Climate Action, Mental Health, and Leadership
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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#188: Kate Cornick’s Rare Interview on Accidentally Finding Engineering to Leading Victoria’s Startup Revolution as LaunchVic CEO
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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#187 Paul Bassat Unplugged: Migrant parents, SEEK’s Breakthrough, Building Square Peg, and Driving Community Impact through AFL and 'Amplify'
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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#186 Bunning’s boss Mike Schneider: Childhood struggles, career decisions, humility and how he became CEO
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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#185 Sitemate's Hartley Pike: Mum’s Support and Rugby Dreams to 'SaaS'ifying the Built World with No-Code Software Globally
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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#184 Osher Günsberg: Doctor's Son to TV Icon—Navigating Sobriety, Hosting The Bachelor & Australian Idol, Life’s 5 D's and 6 P's
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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#183 Jean-Michel Lemieux: CTO at Shopify & Atlassian, Vagabonding Life, Art and Engineering
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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#182 Shaun Christie-David: Uniting the World Through Hospitality—How his restaurants have donated 560,000+ meals to those in need
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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#181 Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer to Renowned Chief Revenue Officer - Career Growth & Sales Mastery
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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#180 Bill Bartee in a rare public interview: NASA's Influence to Co-Founding Blackbird + Main Sequence Ventures
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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#179 Cuttable's Sam Kroonenburg & Jack White on why they're re-shaping advertising to make ads at scale, great again!
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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#178 Atlassian's Work Futurist Dom Price: His untold personal story + realities of being a "team doctor" and Renowned TED Speaker!
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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#177 Hostplus CIO Sam Sicilia in a rare public interview: Italian roots & theorotical physics to managing $100B+ Retirement Fund, Hostplus!
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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#176 EVP’s Justin Lipman + Henry Innis from Mutinex: Decoding A-Players, Competitive edge in fundraising, Power of speaking numerically
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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#175 Will Davies: Farm Life to Acquisition by Uber; the inspiring in-depth story of "Car Next Door" in a rare public interview
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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#174 James Cameron: Becoming VC investor at Accel + Airtree, Embracing Career Uncertainty, Why diversity matters (in his first public interview since 2018)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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#173 Sarah Nolet: Multi-Sport Athlete, Building Tenacious Ventures, State of AgTech, Making Vulnerability a Strength
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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#172 Scott Thomson: Becoming head of Innovation at Google, Navigating International Childhood, Why Engineers lead Tech Companies
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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#171 Jacqui Purcell, Adam Milgrom & Ashleigh Camm: The Raw Ingredients in 'zero to great' relationships
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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#170 Steve Baxter: Army to building startup with wife, Shark Tank Stardom, Ten13 + Defence Tech Investing
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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#169 Silicon Valley to Aotearoa: Unfiltered debunking of NZ's startup myths with Blackbird's Phoebe Harrop & David Booth
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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#168 Craig Blair: Trials and Tribulations; Co-Founder of a $1B+ VC Fund in his most candid interview ever
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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#167 Investment Memo: How CLT Toolbox is eliminating 39% of global carbon emissions from buildings ft. Adam Jones & Ringo Thomas
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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#166 Alasdair MacLeod (Rare Public Interview): Murdoch's Newsrooms to Soil Carbon Pioneer & Reshaping Agriculture
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May 29, 2024 |
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#165 Jillian Broadbent: The Trailblazing Board Director in a rare public Interview
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May 15, 2024 |
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#164 Connor Archbold: Living in 28 homes, Unpacking the magic and learnings building 'Tracksuit', New York, NZ & Family!
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May 07, 2024 |
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#163 Grant Dooley (Rare Public Interview): Learnings as Counsul General in China + Indonesia, Inside Breakthrough Victoria
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May 02, 2024 |
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#162 Adam Jacobs: How he built 'The Iconic' and now 'Hatch', Learnings from selling kitchen knives, personal identity and dad's influence!
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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#161 Holly Ransom: Inspiring journey from Perth to working w Obama, Branson, Gladwell + world events, her grandma and more!
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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#160 Kell Reilly: Lessons from investing in Spotify, Uber, Atlassian in his first ever public interview
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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#159 Matteo Franceschetti: Eight Sleep's Founder, Late English Learner, Fundraising from YC, Khosla & Founders Fund
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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#158 Judy Anderson-Firth: Source of "abundant giving" personality, becoming CEO w Dom Pym, democratising access to investing + personal news with her wife!
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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#157 Jack Zhang: Airwallex's $6.2B Ascent – From Melbourne Café to Global Fintech Powerhouse (First In-Depth Interview)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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#156 Ahmed Fahour (pt 2 of 2 - Rare Public Interview): How he became the highly acclaimed CEO of Citigroup, NAB & Australia Post
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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#155 Ahmed Fahour (pt 1 of 2 - Rare Public Interview): Early life influences, Lebanon, Adversity, Re-marriage + new CEO role!
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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#154 Larry Marshall: Loosing dad early, building 6 tech companies, 30 yrs in the US, transforming Australia's National Science Agency (CSIRO)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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#153 Mark Suster: Battling ADHD, Selling to Salesforce, Good vs Bad Acquisitions, Venture Capital predictions for 2024!
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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#152 Holly Kramer (Rare Public Interview): US Countryside to Board Director at ANZ, Woolworths & Fonterra
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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[Replay] Anil Sabharwal: Multicultural roots to leading THREE of Google's nine BILLION active user products!
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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#151 Sam Sicilia (Rare Public Interview): Humble roots, theorotical physics, Chief Investment Officer for $100B+ retirement fund, Hostplus!
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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#150 Simon Holmes à Court (First Ever In-Depth Public Interview): Life influences, tech, energy, politics, climate 200 and the "trim tab"
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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#149 Roundtable musings w Barnaby Marshall + Vignesh Kumar: Demistifying the fast growing NZ tech ecosystem w Icehouse Ventures and GD1
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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#148 Martijn Wilder (First Ever In-Depth Public Interview): Book publishing family to building Pollination & the $15B National Reconstruction Fund
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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#147 Sarah Hamilton: Entreprenurial upbringing to building Bella Box + how she's now an investor and advisor to leading companies!
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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#146 Toby Hall: Early influences in the UK and South Africa to becoming a highly regarded healthcare and not for profit executive leader
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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#145 Beezer Clarkson: The untold story to becoming partner at Sapphire and unpacking the behind the scenes of global Venture Capital
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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#144 Piruze Sabuncu: Stripe's first hire in South East Asia, turkish influences, partner at SquarePeg!
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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#143 Aneetha De Silva: From Singapore to bridging worlds, relatable journey in law, infrastructure and people leadership
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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#142 Carol Schwartz (Rare Public Interview): 3 siblings, victorious female advocacy, creating an institution of ideas, innovation and scholarship!
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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#141 Leigh Jasper: Service stations to Silicon Valley, unpacking the $1.6B success of Aconex, chairing Second Quarter Ventures & LaunchVic
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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#140 Ben Grabiner: UK upbringing, selling startup to Apple, building Side Stage Ventures and more
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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#139: (First ever public interview) w the combined $400B+ Telstra Super and Australian Super - powering your retirement growth through Venture Capital ft Amy Waite and Sheetal Cicutto
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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#138 Tom Humphrey: 3 siblings, scaling a successful startup with his sister to becoming partner at Blackbird & the economics of happiness!
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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#137 Michael Traill: Humble upbringings to co-founding Macquarie Capital's Private Equity arm, spotting talent & jumping ship to social impact!
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Investment Memo: How Eugene is helping you take control of your health ft Co-Founders Zoe Milgrom & Kunal Kalro
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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#135 James Alcorn: Inside the AI revolution with one of the world’s leading investors focused in this space since 2015, Zetta Venture Partners!
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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#134 Kim Randle: Human rights lawyer to accelerating the world's transition to sustainable supply Chains, guest hosted by Jax Vullinghs
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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#133 Bec Milgrom (Rare Public Interview): Regenerative Farming, Self Discovery, Exactly how Tripple is using capital to create a better future!
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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#132 Osher Günsberg: Doctor parents, Realities of hosting The Bachelor + Australian Idol, How network TV operates & manufacturing serendipity!
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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#131 Michael Kim: Korean, Japanese & American upbringing + unpacking how Cendana Capital invests in VC funds around the world!
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May 23, 2023 |
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#130 Paul Bassat: Family grounding, Realities of creating success at Seek + Square Peg Capital, Building a legacy & Australia's future!
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May 16, 2023 |
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#129 Sam Wong: Soundblasters, Mixed Heritage, Blackbird's first hire to building the NZ fund + Finding alpha outcomes in non-obvious companies
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May 09, 2023 |
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#128 Peter Huynh: Vietnamese connection, Mindfulness, Seeding the Aus + South East Asia startup ecosystems, State of Health Care and AI
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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#127 Michael Stocks: Sydney to New York, Harvard MBA, Early Linktree hire, Demystifying operations in a high growth startup!
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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#126 Dan Fitzgerald: Rugby union, living zen, re-imagining the world from the atom up w ReGen Ventures + his daughter Frankie's inspiration
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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#125 Eytan Lenko (Rare Public Interview): Leading "Boundless" to make Australia a renewable energy superpower with Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-Founder of Atlassian)
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Investment Memo: How "Sumday" is enabling every business to measure their carbon impact
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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#123 David Shein: Influences of South Africa + Australia, founding a billion $ company with young family & unpacking investing in the best at OIF
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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#122 Sheel Mohnot: Living on $1 a day to learn his customers, Becoming one of the best seed FinTech investors, Metaverse weddings & more!
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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#121 Mayuresh Patole: Breaking news! Announcing Squarepeg's investment in Chronicle, helping unleash your inner storyteller, guest hosted by James Tynan
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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#120 Tim Doyle + Alex Badran: Provocations & Round tables with the founders of Healthcare Tech startup, Eucalyptus and Pocket Money App, Spriggy
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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#119 Wyatt Roy (Rare Public Interview): How he became the youngest EVER national govt minister + creating the national science & innovation agenda
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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#118 Anil Sabharwal (Rare Public Interview): Indian, Canadian & Aussie connection + Building THREE of Google's nine Billion user products!
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Investment memo: How Startmate & Airtree are building the next gen of angel investors, explorers vs first believers + a special announcement!
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Investment memo: ":Different", The power duo's quest from holiday idea to re-thinking property mgmt using learnings as early hire at Uber & more!
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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#115 The hungry not the proven, LIVE at the Sunrise festival ft. Niki Scevak, Blackbird VC & Vince Allen, SunDrive
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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#114 Marcus Thompson: Rising up to Major General in the Australian Army, Suprises about deployment in Afghanistan & Iraq + setting up the Information Warfare division
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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#113 Daniel Petre: Insecurities, reporting to Bill Gates, founding Airtree VC, realities of philantrophy
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Smileyscope", VR & AR therapeutics focused on managing pain and anxiety for kids and adults
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Laura Henshaw: Parents seperation early, importance of financial independence, building the multi-faceted KIC business, social media following & more!
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Will Richardson: Mixed race family, making career & life changes, real founding story of Giant Leap & abundance mindset!
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Terence Jeyaretnam: Sri Lanka civil war & refugee status, building one of the first B corps in Australia & acquisition by EY; solving climate change, diversity & inclusion
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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#108 Rowan Simpson (Rare Public Interview): NZ lifestyle, high flyer teachers, scaling success stories in Trade Me + Xero from early days, investing, ambition & more
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Stew Glynn: Early years in Zimbabwe, Big transition from corporate to family office + meeting Steve Baxter, inside how Ten13 invests in emerging markets of Africa + Columbia
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "COVIU", the all-in-one virtual care engagement platform for better care + creating the video caption function for YouTube!
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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#105 Simon Cant: Balancing creative and academic side, Co-founding Reinventure at age 45 and why it's never too late to start + being early investors in Coinbase & Immutable!
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Michael Overell: Nuclear family sunrise, learnings building startup for 8 yrs, growth @ Lyft + ClassDojo & more!
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Jeanette Cheah: Global upbringing and asian heritage + inside how they're bringing fun innovation education for the next gen at HEX!
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "CoLab", announcing the merger of restaurant ready meals and 1500+ gourmet pantry products!
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Rachel Yang: Youngest of 3 sisters, career changing work w indigenous community & inside building Giant Leap, first 100% impact VC in Aus!
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Natasha Interviews Vidit about the origin story, interview process unknowns, 99 learnings, fav guest stories & a suprise!
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Michael Tolo: Rich italian heritage, transtition from law to finance & VC, Investing in deep tech founders and creating net new categories of entrepreneurship!
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Daniel Madhavan: Multicultural family upbringing, specifics on how he became acting CEO by buiding bridges over boats, What is impact investing & falling down stairs!
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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#97 Lauren Capelin: QLD connection & defining success; merging business, creativity, community w impact, networldling over networking and more!
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Dalton Henshaw: Sunrise in Melbourne w sporting dreams turning into creating a major men's lifestyle publisher & now leading 40+ ppl at age 29 @ Bullfrog
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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#95 Blackbird's Creative Director Joel Connolly: Early influences of Darwin + Copacabana, inside the transition from music and creative to venture capital
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Jackie Vullinghs: Mum's early influence, unknowns about Milkrun, great consumer investing & Airtree VC's second generation
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Kelly Godfrey: Growing up with 3 brothers in the UK, How she reached marketing director and country GM at global tech unicorns, ancestry.com and StockX!
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Investment memo: What is really going on in the economy, inside the current state of markets
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Teenager Therapy", how 5 high schoolers created the largest teen mental health podcast in the world!
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Dom Pym: Life experiences, people & learnings that've led to building Up, Australia's most loved bank!
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Earlywork", the community centred startup with 3k+ members
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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James Tynan: Energy management post auto immune illnesses, scaling Khan Academy to the world's biggest EdTech, Venture capital unknowns & climate tech thesis
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "ChefPrep", The culinary marketplace, building the Amazon for food
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Kate Cornick (Rare Public Interview): Grandma's influence, studying engineering accidentally to building a career across Academia, Business & Govt
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Part 3 of #3 series: Unpack DAO Under, how web3 is bringing a new spin to community across Asia Pacific w Abhi Maran + Ange Ching
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Alan Jones: Dreamer parents, birth of the internet + being 2nd employee for Yahoo, founder coaching advice & scaling M8 ventures
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May 30, 2022 |
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Part 2 of #3 series: Inside the future of decentralised finance w Josh Reyes, co-founder @ Minke
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May 26, 2022 |
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Part 1 of #3 series: Inside NFTs, how cute pics took over the world w String Nguyen, co-founder @ Chubbiverse
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May 24, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Athletic Ventures", how elite professional athletes unlock value as investors
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May 18, 2022 |
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#80 Bill Bartee (Rare Public Interview): Growing up around NASA to Co-Founding Southern Cross, Blackbird & Main Sequence Ventures
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May 16, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Journalist at the Financial Review", how news operates
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May 12, 2022 |
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Matt Allen: Sydney's western suburbs upbringing, how revenue based financing works, 3 use cases & differences vs VC + hall of fame investors!
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May 09, 2022 |
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Rachael Neumann: Being a social chameleon growing up in New York, medicine morphing into business, building the live event online ticketing biz in Australia, investing in the next tech startup
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May 04, 2022 |
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Curiosity: Inside Character + Distinction & Protagonist Capital - Creating connection for your biz & investing in protagonists w Kate Dinon
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Ed McManus: Behind the scenes of childhood in Ireland to PHD qualified biochemist, leading Deliveroo in Aus, amateur bee keeper, structured exec education & being generalist
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Letter of Intent", How anonymity created a newsletter growth engine read by thousands daily!
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Adrian Petersen: Deep seeded professional athlete ambitions in Tennis & Cycling to co-founding AfterWork Ventures, and how they're doing things a little different
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Mac Conwell: Loosing his dad and being homeless to creating Rare Breed Ventures through 1100 Twitter meetings, unpacking how he learnt Venture Capital + startups in Africa & Pakistan
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Michelle Wade: From small town to growing trade, investment & education between Australia and India, Italy, Malaysia & Spain + Managing the $45M covid relief fund
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Curiosity: Inside startups 360 - Scaling stripe from 8 to 30 people in 12 mths, mentoring early stage founders + angel investing w Tom Richardson, Head of Startups @ Stripe
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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$69 Jaddan Comerford: Inspired by dad and starting music record label at age 17 to $20M Unified Music Group today, how monetisation and artist model works & unpacking spotify
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "The Mintable", the empowerment platform where the best people managers come to succeed; built for managers by managers.
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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#67 Blackbird's Niki Scevak: Zero to one, Courageous ambition, Dandelions and Orchids + secrets to be supremely well read
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Nutromics", future of continuous health monitoring prevent deaths & chronic disease
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Prisca Ongonga-Daehn: Global experiences in Africa, Asia, Australia to founding Baresop, reducing single plastic waste via sustainable products better for humans + planet
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Vexev", the next generation of intelligent patient monitoring
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Hunter Johnson: 27 detentions and 6 injuries by age 21 to how he built the national charity teaching emotional intelligence to teenage boys, Man Cave + working w Prince Harry
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Mainak Dhar", the process behind publishing 26 books (many becoming best sellers)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Steve Solomon: Unpacking the journey, mindset and habits to becoming 2x Olympic athlete + critical painful learning from missing 2016 olympics by 4/100th of a second!
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Josh Ismin: Journey from New York to Sydney, creating a new last name, unpacking angel investing, why he's building Psylo: psychedelic-inspired medicine to treat mental illness
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Investment memo: "Arrive & Thrive", the social enterprise supporting 12,000 students in 53 schools to achieve career goals
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Michelle Hu: Drive to suceed from immigrant parents, banking analyst turned beauty startup founder with operations in Melbourne and recently New York & social media marketing tricks!
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Michael Batko: Feeling lost in 2018 unsure of himself to becoming CEO of Australia's largest startup accelerator: startmate, habits and rhytms to increase his 'surface area for luck to strike', and influences from polish heritage
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Ed Cowan: Inside the journey of playing professional cricket for Australia, 1% habits of best athletes, successful transitions out of sport, founding tripod coffee & the cake recipe!
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Michael Fox: Countryside sunrise, optimise for rate of learning in career, closing fashion biz, now building meat free movement + worrying stats about our diets!
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Introducing Curiosity Center: Specific episodes w founders & leaders in every industry, showcasing what they do, why and how to help you thrive at work and achieve your potential!
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Crossover Special: Vidit joins Chloe Temple on the Leadership Confidence series - "What I'm learning from 50+ episodes re-imagining the traditional high flyer"
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Tom Kelly: Italian influences, how to build a start up and raise funding whilst being a doctor with no direct business experience, surgical registrar turned start up founder building the next step in clinical training + secrets for a long life!
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Andy Miller: Free range childhood, travelling the world in pyjamas, story of launching Heaps Normal: the non alcholic beer movement during a pandemic & 3 years living in China!
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Shane Hatton: How he turned an idea into reality into a leadership and coaching practise, author, podcast host & renowned speaker!
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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#48 Blackbird's Nick Crocker: Dealing with loss early on, discovering startups via journalism, selling to Under Amour, Behind the scenes of Venture Capital
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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BONUS! Building disability support agency Buttons w David Bookman - How it started, economics behind a service provider, NDIS Government scheme structure, painful learnings & success in next 2 years!
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Chloe Temple - Overcoming challenges at uni in the UK to helping spark change to be our true selves, Building POPP coaching business
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Minal Mehta - Pan Asia upbringing, scaling next billion users for YouTube, tech in the early 2000's vs now, career coach at Harvard & Founding TakeTwo!
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Holly Ransom - Inspiring path from Perth to interviewing & engaging with powerhouse leaders including Obama, Richard Branson, Dalai Lama & more!
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Maddy Buchner OAM - Doing her life's work by creating Little Dreamers, Australia's leading young carer organisation and recognised by the Queen!!
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Michael Rodrigues - Building media juggernaut TimeOut to now leading the 24 hour economy creation as Sydney's first night time mayor + indian heritage influences!
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Rosie Thomas OAM - Deciding not to walk past bullying by creating Project Rockit with her sister: Uniting young people against all kinds of bullying
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Celebrating #40 w Ed Neerhut + Flo Van Den Corput - 3 best friends with experiences in Australia, Europe, USA!
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Magic MOMENTS x five: Create your personal board of mentors, Behind the scenes of global events, Rebuilding after a life changing injury, Working in 4 sports leagues & how to go from corporate exec to successful founder!
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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Liltte big things w Ryan Tuckwood - Packing up to Australia, Introverted extrovert, Full circle moments to Shark tank show & Swish!
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Deeds not words w Annabelle Daniel - Order of Australia Medal for social development, Women's community shelters, expansive family and influence of grandparents & dealing with the unknown
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Doing good w Dr Holly Doel-Mackaway - Human rights & social progress, lead singer in Japan, UNICEF work in Fiji, Aboriginal potential and positivity!
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w Adam Charles - Melbourne to living the world, producing the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony, deferring university, cultural differences, people & respect!
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Tipping points w Conor O'Malley - Worldly influences, executive to now coaching leaders, moving continents, trust & understanding self!
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May 30, 2021 |
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Creating action w Katrina Mccarter - Marketing to mums, influences growing up & financial learning, speaking around the world, dreaming big & more!
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May 17, 2021 |
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Having a go w Ayesha Wharton - Raised in the Caribbean, Foreign service - 8 years in China & 4 in South Africa, diplomacy & cultural immersion!
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May 02, 2021 |
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Game, Set, Match - Serving up a global sports event (with fans) during a pandemic w Chief Tennis Officer at Tennis Australia
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w Kellie Riordan - Supportive family, Fail + learn, building podcasting at the ABC in 2005 pre-iPhone, transitioning to create a media production house & more!
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Explore, Dream & Discover w Kim Grady - Earthy childhood, Career transitions & sabbaticals, Travel, Food, Wine & taking risks!
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Stretchable boundaries w Michael Spiegel - Raised in the US, 15 years in Europe, 14 years in Australia, medicine, biotech & new experiences!
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Be bold w Amanda Neilson - teaching, consulting, MBA, asking for help & fostering change inclusively & so much more!
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Always believe w Mike Boyd - The Business of family, being shy to building global businesses, Asia & Aussie culture, desiging your life & more!
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Dionne Holder - Cross cultural influences growing up in Barbados, 1 way ticket into 20+ year stay in China, learning mandarin fluently, 2008 olympics & more!
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Josh Blanksby - Gold Coast childhood, lawyer to the business of sport, learning America with his wife, breaking the taboo of horse racing & gambling
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Scott McLaughlin - Asking for help to be a better person, Advertising & data driven insights, Sweat, courage & tenacity!
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Matt Dwyer - Not fitting in, Selling beers & chocolates to the heights of world sport, working w ex England cricket captain & so much more!
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Brianna Casey - Curious about the world, CEO at 23, Forging a path in farming as a female, social policy and so much more!
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Michael Karakatsanis - Greek heritage, politics interest in primary school, pencils and creativity & cross functional moves
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Rob Hango Zada - Pulling apart toys growing up, taking risks moving from a corporate life to build Shippit, one of the hottest start ups in Aus & much more!
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Be 1% better w/ Andy Monk - Library of education in childhood, Impact of 2008 crisis, Renewable energy, organic food, leadership & more!
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Leonie Green - Childhood with 8 older siblings, employment law and transition from corporate to own ventures, humble leadership & much more!
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Melissa Mortimer - Being happy & positive on life, Career journey as a wedding planner, recruiter & business change + transformation and much more!
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Corey Wastle - Founding a financial advisory firm, growing up as 1 of 5 boys, 3 tips for financial wellbeing, no regrets & more!
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Rory Gilbert - Raised in the UK & Scotland, International learning via winning the Joe Berry Award, Plant based meat, Focusing on today with an eye on the future & more!
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Mainak Dhar - Business leader by day, best selling author by night, Career journey including Mumbai, Singapore, Bangkok & more!
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Anoushka Gungadin - Childhood in Mauritius, 10 years in China, Moving to Aus & leading the Duke of Ed Award, Australia India relations; world citizen, cultural intelligence & being bold!
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Tim O'Sullivan - Hustling, Having fun & giving it a go; Scratching through high school, Building a business with hangover cure drinks nationally!
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Nick Dawes - Family tragedy early on, Leading large brands, Finding a new role during covid & journey w depression + mental wellbeing
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Ben Kende - Love for Rugby, Life changing spinal injury & figuring it out, travelling the world in a wheelchair & becoming a lawyer
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Troy Douglas - Driving a naturally sugar free movement with his brother in law, growing up as a gay man, business coaching & lots more!
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Genevieve Hawkins - 1 of 9 siblings, Mentally at work, Story telling, Creating a personal board of directors & so much more!
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Sam Christou - Family values, Lessons from an exciting journey with EY, Nestle, Google, Soccer & life experiences!
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Steven Burrows - Music & Theatre to Food & Wine, creating pride & inclusion platforms in Corporate Australia
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Ben Jesse - 40 rejection letters, partnering with mega brands from India & China, Working in AFL, Cricket, Tennis & Basketball
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Ridley Plummer - Behind the scenes of global sport, Skiing to NFL Superbowl to The Australian Open Tennis, World First Uber Eats Campaign
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Be 1% better w/ Mike Dickson - Living & working in 4 countries, good vs great talent, T career & jigsaw puzzle thinking
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Taking Flight w/ Taps Matimba - Resilience and growth from Africa to Australia, experiences to get to Risk & Control at CBA, studying Law & working full time
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Jul 21, 2020 |