Ep047 – Glenn Gillen (Investor – Pick & Shovel) on silver bullets and culture

The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep047 – Glenn Gillen (Investor – Pick & Shovel) on silver bullets and culture May 2, 2017 rohitbhargava Podcast In Episode 47 of The Startup Playbook Podcast, my guest is Glenn Gillen, a mentor and investor at Pick & Shovel. Glenn was an early hire at Heroku and led their Add-ons Marketplace business unit where he helped define go to market strategies for over 100 developer facing startups, several of them now well known billion dollar companies. He is now back in Australia, spending most of his time as an active angel investor and helping to develop and shape the Victorian startup community. In the episode we chat about how he got his job at Heroku from an email to the founder, scaling company culture, the advantages of the Australian startup ecosystem and his process when making investment decisions. Show notes: – Heroku – James Lindenbaum – Pick & Shovel – Andrew Hyde – 500 Startups – Techstars – Matt Allen – Lachlan Donald – Glenn Gillen (email) – Glenn Gillen (website) – Glenn Gillen (Twitter) Feedback/ connect/ say hello:  [email protected] @playbookstartup (Twitter) @rohitbhargava7 (Twitter – Rohit) Rohit Bhargava (LinkedIn) Credits: Intro music credit to Bensound http://traffic.libsyn.com/startupplaybook/Ep047.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat admin January 1, 2014 Reply Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-moz-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-moz-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]::-webkit-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=text]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=url]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form input[type=email]:-ms-input-placeholder, .dslc-tp-comment-form textarea:-ms-input-placeholder { color: #4d4d4d; } Copyright © 2015 - Live Composer The post Ep047 – Glenn Gillen (Investor – Pick & Shovel) on silver bullets and culture appeared first on Startup Playbook.