The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal
By Vidit Agarwal
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Global top 10% ranked podcast. Launched in 2020.
Described by our global listeners as “meticulously researched biographies" and "I learnt more about the guest from your episode even after 10+ years of knowing the guest" -- excerpts of the podcast have been featured in Forbes, Daily Telegraph, SXSW and more.
We're proud that more than 60% of our 200+ 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
➝ Michael Schneider: CEO, Bunnings
➝ Anil Sabharwal: Global VP Product, Google (Built Google Photos)
➝ Elena Verna: Head of Growth, Lovable
➝ Stevie Case: Chief Revenue Officer, Vanta
➝ John Haddock: Chief Business Officer, Harvey
➝ Andrew Penn: CEO, Telstra
➝ Mark Suster: Partner, Upfront Ventures
➝ Jason Collins: Head of BlackRock, Australasia
➝ Brad Banducci: CEO, Woolworths
➝ Bowen Pan: Creator, Facebook Marketplace
➝ Craig Tiley: CEO, Tennis Australia
➝ Ben Thompson: Co-Founder & CEO, Employment Hero
➝ Sweta Mehra: Executive GM, NAB; Ex CMO, ANZ Bank
➝ Niki Scevak, Partner, Blackbird
➝ Paul Bassat: Partner, Square Peg
➝ Trent Cotchin: 3x Premiership Winning Captain, Richmond FC
➝ Jean-Michel Limieux: CTO, Shopify and Atlassian
➝ Jack Zhang: Co-Founder & CEO, Airwallex
➝ Holly Kramer: Board Director, Woolworths & ANZ
➝ Sam Sicilia: Chief Investment Officer, Hostplus
➝ Ahmed Fahour: CEO, Citi, NAB & Australia Post
➝ Andrey Khusid: CEO & Co-Founder, Miro
➝ Bill Bartee: Co-Founder Blackbird + Main Sequence
➝ Rod Hamilton: Chief Product Officer, Culture Amp
➝ Brendan Hargreaves: CFO, Officeworks
➝ Simon Baume: COO, Eucalyptus
➝ Osher Gunsberg: Renowned TV personality
➝ Lisa Sthalekar: 4x Cricket World Cup Winner and ICC Hall of Fame Member
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#235 Steve Hind: Forging Lorikeet’s Exponential Growth With Unlearnings from Debating, Bridgewater and Stripe
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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#234 John Haddock: From Phoenix’s desert trails to leading Harvey’s AI rise after a decade scaling Stripe’s hyper-growth
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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#233 Peter Varghese: "One of Australia’s 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: Professional tennis dreams to Journalism to how he’s leading BlackRock with empathy first
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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: How he created Facebook Marketplace, working with Mark Zuckerberg, and unpacking product leadership
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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#229 Jack Zhang: The Relentless Founder of Airwallex — From Rural China to Melbourne Bartender to Building a $5B 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 Asia to Canberra; Leading Australia’s India Strategy and the $10 Trillion Opportunity Ahead
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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 Ft. Tennis Australia CEO on Army Lessons, Leading the Australian Open, and Tennis’s Future
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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, Turkey, USA, Building Stripe in Asia, Square Peg (Rare Public Interview)
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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 |