Ep198 – Rohan Workman (Co-founder & CEO – Skalata) on taking risks & balancing speed with discipline

The Startup Playbook PodcastInsights and lessons from the world's best entrepreneurs and investors Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Ep198 – Rohan Workman (Co-founder & CEO – Skalata) on taking risks & balancing speed with discipline October 24, 2024 rohitbhargava Uncategorized My guest for Ep198 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Rohan Workman. Rohan is the Co-founder & CEO of Skalata, a seed stage venture capital firm that was established in 2018 and count a portfolio of over 80 companies across their 2 funds. Prior to this, he was the Director of MAP, Melbourne Uni’s Accelerator program that he built to become the 8th ranked program in the world. Rohan also previously founded RosterCloud, a cloud-based software management tool for events and catering businesses. RosterCloud was acquired by Rision in 2016. In this interview we covered a range of topics including: What his first job out of uni, working in corporate recovery, taught him about business Lessons from his first startup, Roster Cloud Why Skalata evolved from an accelerator program to a more traditional fund structure & much more! Timestamps: 1:43 Rohan’s background 4:02 Importance of health & fitness as a founder 12:08 Tough lessons from his time at McGrathNicol 15:25 Advice for navigating challenging people situations in business 21:24 Balancing speed with discipline 26:50 Mistakes and lessons from RosterCloud 30:36 Time at Melbourne Accelerator Program in the early days 39:45 The genesis for Skalata 46:35 Skalata’s investment thesis and process 57:10 Taking risks and being bold Our partners: A big thank you to Maxine Lee, Laura Williams and Rosemary Workman for their help with this interview! 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Links mentioned: Rohan’s links: Rohan’s LinkedIn Skalata VC People mentioned: S. N. Goenka John Berry Sam Kothari Leigh Jasper Jocko Willink Darrell Wade Maxine Lee Lisa Paul Daniel Madhavan Sarah Morgan Anthony Glenning Kate Cornick Justin Lipman Connor Hagan Alex Ewart Companies mentioned: KPMG McGrathNicol Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP) Melbourne University RosterCloud Vipassana Meditation Everlab The Big Group LaunchVic Explorate EVP Feedback/connect/say hello: [email protected]@RohitBhargava7 (Twitter)/rohbhargava (LinkedIn)@rohit_bhargava (Instagram)My Youtube Channel Credits: Music: Paycheck Other channels: Find all of the links for the podcast on Linktree here https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/startupplaybook/Ep198_-_Rohan_Workman.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. 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