Ep143 – Justin Webb (Co-founder & Chairman – AgriWebb) on building the future of AgTech

The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep143 – Justin Webb (Co-founder & Chairman – AgriWebb) on building the future of AgTech March 18, 2021 rohitbhargava Podcast My guest for Episode 143 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Co-founder & Executive Chairman of AgriWebb, Justin Webb. Describing Justin as a successful serial entrepreneur, would not be doing justice to his background. He studied economics and applied mathematics at Harvard and did a post-graduate MBA at Oxford. He would then take his work on the application of Machine Learning and AI in asset management to found and grow 2 hedge funds before selling them to Macquarie Bank and Westpac. He then went on to found and build PacWealth Capital into a $4Bn Advisory firm in the South Pacific. He is now the Co-founder & Executive Chairman of AgriWebb which is on the mission to digitise on-farm production data. Since launching 6 years ago, the company manages over 15m head of livestock across 90m acres around the globe and recently raised a $30M Series B round, valuing the company north of $100M. In this interview we covered a range of topics including: AgriWebb’s journey to $100M valuationHow to attract and retain great talentHow to find your believers and early adoptersThe future of Agtech& much more! Timestamps   2.53 – Justin’s background before and leading up to starting AgriWebb 6.51 – The parallels between sport and business following Justin’s past as a Rower  10.37 – How Justin started two hedge funds that were eventually sold to Westpac and Macquarie13.37 – Moving back to Australia and getting involved in family business16.22 – Where the idea for AgriWebb stemmed from and advice for finding a business idea for early stage founders21.33 – Building a great team 29.01 – Finding the early adopter customer in traditionally slow to market industries34.36 – Choosing when and how to respond to customer feedback when creating features42.01 – Managing a growing team and how the founders role changes as the team grows47.42 – Building family first culture within a team and building culture remotely 1.00.37 – Where to find AgriWebb and Justin  Links Mentioned  Justin Webbs’ Links  AgriWebb Justin Webb – Linked In  People  Rachael NeumannAl BentleyKevin Baum (Justins’ Co-founder) John Fargher (Justins’ Co-founder) Chris CoePhilip Chan (AgriWebb Chief Product Officer)Kenny Sabir (AgriWebb Head of Engineering)Eric Martinez de Morentin (AgriWebb Development Manager) Paul Parton (AgriWebb Software Engineer)Laurence Hey (AgriWebb Lead Software Engineer)Kogulan Baskaran (AgriWebb Senior Software Engineer) Past Episodes  Ep142 – Al BentleyEp57 – Rachael NeumannEp130 – Rachael Neumann Special Thanks: Special thanks to Kevin Baum and Chris Coe for their help with research for this interview ? . 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