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Startup 360
by Startup Daily
Every Friday, Startup 360 hosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell, dissect the news of the week in ANZ startups, before they’re joined by a guest to explore what makes them tick. Think of it as your startup guide to staying human. It’s all about lifting the bonnet on people to understand how they see the world and what inspires and drives them, and what they’ve learnt from both success and failure.
Episodes
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Why leadership means you don’t have the answers
What does good leadership look like when you stop pretending anyone has it all figured out? Simon and Julie sit down with entrepreneur, storyteller and Mentor Walks cofounder Bobbi Mahlab for episode 79 of Startup 360, talking about careers, community, judgement and the value of being a little...
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How The Laundry Lady’s Susan Toft turned her washing into a global brand
On episode 78 of the weekly Startup 360 podcast, Susan Toft joins us to unpack how a government redundancy, a toddler and a mountain of washing became The Laundry Lady, the Queensland scaleup that’s now an international marketplace with more than 600 laundry partners. Susan takes us through the...
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Ranya Alkadamani on the “So what?” test every founder needs
On episode 77 of Startup 360, we’re talking about storytelling, influence, AI, parenthood and the increasingly important business of staying human with Ranya Alkadamani, founder of Impact Group International. Ranya worked for Kevin Rudd when he was foreign minister, in a career that also spans...
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How to build a startup without losing yourself
In this special edition of Startup 360, we revisit four conversations about the decisions, doubts and relationships behind building a business -the parts founders often leave out of the story. Mark ‘Z’ Zmarzly, head of startups at Morfless, shares the loneliness of his journey, a cofounder…
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The power of data: Seer’s Kristi Mansfield on connection and community in the AI age
We know data is powerful. But there are important questions around who owns it, who can access it, and who gets to make decisions with it? This week, on episode 75 of Startup 360, Julie and Simon sit down with Kristi Mansfield, philanthropist, community advocate, and founder and CEO of…
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Regrets, Jason Dunn's had a few, but now he's a triathlete and loves adversity
“Regret got me into running” is an unusual reason to become a triathlete, but then Jason Dunn, the author of Greatness Doesn’t Care, has taken an unusual career path since he dreamed of being a soccer player growing up in England. Jason, who now helps entrepreneurs build resilience, discipline…
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Finding your startup tribe with Innovation Bay’s Ian Gardiner
On episode 73 of Startup 360, Simon and Julie sit down with Ian Gardiner, cofounder of Innovation Bay, investor, entrepreneur and champion of founder communities. Ian reflects on his journey from Glasgow to Australia, his life with his wife Andread, founder of Jelix Ventures, the dot-com boom,...
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How Lucinda Hartley’s great Australian dream is rethinking home ownership
This week on Startup 360, Majella Campbell returns to the host’s chair in Simon’s place, alongside Julie Trell, to unpack a huge week in Australian venture capital before sitting down with urban designer, serial founder and author Lucinda Hartley. Lucinda has spent her career exploring how the...
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Four Pillars Gin cofounder Matt Jones on making your story come true
Matt Jones describes himself as a creative strategist, accidental entrepreneur and serial failure. As his career pinballed between military intelligence, political speechwriting, brand strategy and co-founding Four Pillars Gin, he developed a theory about how people make decisions and why story...
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What scammers and founders have in common - and why slowing down matters
What happens when a teacher, criminologist, sociologist and self-described geek - yes, that’s all one person - turns her attention to one of the biggest threats we all face: scams? Episode 70 of Startup 360, sees Simon and Julie “TreLLM” sit down with Lively founder Stacey Edmonds, creator of...
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A comedian and corporate marketer walk into a startup with a 2000-year-old Roman sports drink
Merrick Watts is a comedy legend. But he also has a serious side as a startup founder as Ed Stening discovered when he became his cofounder in drink brand Posca. And it turns out resurrecting a 2000-year-old Roman sports drink is no joke.Ed is this week’s guest on episode 69 of Startup 360…
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To head the cowboys off at the pass, Emma Earley is getting 1000s of women into AI
AI has a cowboy problem. When not bragging on LinkedIn about their work being done while asleep, they’re writing AI cheques they can’t cash - without pausing to ask whose data they’re feeding into the machine, what it’s being used for, or who was duffed along the way. Episode 68 of Startup 360...
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The 2am Macca’s test on loving your startup idea
For episode 67 of Startup 360, Simon and Julie talk with Mark Zmarzly - founder, prolific angel investor and AWS credits-turned-coupons fairy. Or Z. Not Zed, because that sends things into Pulp Fiction territory. Among many hats, the Nebraska-born accidental Australian and former startup…
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How to lighten the load for founders and who can make the best decisions
Most founders start a business believing they'll build freedom. Sometimes it can end up imprisoning you. Every important decision lands on the founder's desk. Every approval, problem, late-night phone call. As Nicholas Thomson, the founder of Iceberg explains it on episode 66 of Startup 360, it’s...
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Getting women tech ready, when your MVP’s ready, results or excuses
If you've ever looked at a successful founder and wondered how they always seem to know exactly what they're doing, this week's Startup 360 might come as a relief. Our guest is engineer, entrepreneur and Tech Ready Women program director Renate Crollini, who admits she once assumed all the smart...
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Obama played her game. Now Sian Priest wants founders to tell better stories
Before Sian Priest was helping deep tech founders tell better stories at Cicada Innovations, one of the games she created as a 2000s gaming founder ended up being played by President Obama at the White House science fair. This week on episode 64 of Startup 360, Majella’s away, so Simon sits down...
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Australian startups ‘punch above their weight’ - and why tax changes are a blow to the head
Startup 360 hit the road for episode 63, recording in front of a studio audience for the first time from Growth Summit Sydney. Simon and Majella’s guest was Ben Grabiner from Side Stage Ventures, taking them through the findings of the Australia Venture & Startup Report 2026 , which looked at the...
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Lessons in leadership with a gun on the table and your share price plummeting
Vision gets a lot of attention in startups. It's the thing founders pitch to investors, talk about with customers and use to inspire teams. But as Dane Hudson argues, vision alone isn't enough. After more than 25 years leading businesses across five industries and mentoring more than 150 founders...
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Cicada’s Liza Noonan on R&D’s new valley of death & the ‘missing middle’ for deep tech
R&D investment and commercialisation can't be treated as separate issues, says Liza Noonan, CEO of Sydney deep-tech hub Cicada Innovations, on episode 61 of Startup 360. Liza unpacks deep tech — think quantum computing, medical devices and advanced manufacturing — and the unique challenges the...
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Australia’s lagging innovation metrics; a new owner for Fishburners
Fishburners has a new owner. And episode 60’s guest is Carolyn Breeze, CEO of the buyer, ASX-listed Scalare Partners. Scalare bought Fishburners from the voluntary administrators this week and the startup community and its members will leave the Tech Central Innovation Hub to become part of Tank...
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The budget: The facts on capital gains tax, family trusts, shares and the impact on startups
After 3 non-event federal budgets for the startup sector, all hell broke loose on May 12 when treasurer Jim Chalmers announced capital gain tax changes that will reduce the size of the cheque startup shareholders receive in a liquidity event. The backlash has been enormous and the sector is…
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The hidden cost of startup hustle: Burnout, breakdown and leadership
Startup founders are told to hustle harder, push through and never let the cracks show. But what happens when the pressure becomes too much? This week on Startup 360, host Simon Thomsen sits down with workplace mental health advocate Graeme Cowan for a candid conversation about burnout,...
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OpenAI’s Thomas Jeng on why AI won’t replace founders anytime
OpenAI’s APAC startups lead Thomas Jeng has a warning for founders worried AI is about to replace them: calm down. The tools are getting smarter at breakneck speed, but the people building the future are still very much in the driver’s seat. Speaking with Startup 360 co-hosts Simon Thomsen and...
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Humanitix’s Josh Ross on putting the human in impact tech
A decade ago, Joshua Ross and his good mate Adam McCurdie went looking for an idea that would have maximum impact in doing the most good. So they decided to take on the global ticketing industry and launch Humanitix. Their second crazy big idea was to give away all the company’s profit. They’ve...
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How to travel better and cheaper with AI
The global business travel market is worth more than $2 trillion annually, but when most employees seek to get from A to B, how it works is not something many think about. Altitude AI founder Aimee Armstrong has, transforming the industry to help smaller businesses save time and money thanks to…
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Using AI to deal with 'carenting' in the Sandwich years
The term Sandwich Generation was coined in the early 80s to describe people, aged in their 30s to 60s, who found themselves not only raising a family, but also caring for their parents - "carenting" - at the same time. In the middle of all those competing demands, they're also trying to build…
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This teenage entrepreneur is using AI to help people 'vent' for their mental health
School and Malachy Doyle were never the best of mates.Our guest for episode 53 is now 17 and left school for entrepreneurship, founding his first startup Venty. Never mind the education, even being told when to have lunch got on his goat. And Malachy likes to have control of his destiny."I like...
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Let's get metaphysical - learning from great books faster
If, like Startup 360 cohost Simon and Majella, you have a pile of non-fiction books beside the bed that you're trying to get around to reading, you'll love episode 52's guest. Shruta Satam left nearly 20 years as a corporate consultant for the likes of Deloitte and PwC to become a startup…
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Tim Fung on 13 years of being Airtasker in chief
The wild thing about building a marketplace for jobs is that you never know what your customers will need. Airtasker cofounder and CEO admits on episode 51 of Startup 360 that when a man wanted someone to fly from Australia to the US to pick up an engagement ring and bring it back, they deleted,...
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OG Finder co-founder Jeremy Cabral on maintaining your mojo, 20 years on
Finder.com, one of the first generation of Australian tech startups, has just turned 20. So for the 50th episode of Startup 360, we have a very special guest - co-founder Jeremy Cabral. It was so long ago that two new inventions, Twitter and the iPhone, played a central role in Jeremy's next…
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What the AI era really means for the future of work and your job
This week on Startup 360, we talk to veteran startup recruiter Dexter Cousins about work in the AI era. With WiseTech Global cutting 2,000 jobs, nearly a third of its global workforce, the Commonwealth Bank shedding 300 tech roles, Block reducing its workforce by 40% - 4,000 more jobs gone, the...
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Olympian Bronte Campbell on being a team player and founder mindset
It's a special episode of Startup 360 this week with Earthletica cofounder Bronte Campbell. The triple Olympic gold medallist and a former World Champion's had a bit of a career pivot since Paris. She's now CEO of the sustainable activewear brand after competing in four Olympics - her first as a...
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Stone & Chalk's Chris Kirk on CEO life and being a good founder
Startup 360 takes a deep dive into leadership this week with Chris Kirk, one of the OGs with Stone and Chalk . Chris recently announced he was stepping down as CEO after three years, and 11 with the organisation since it began in Sydney. It's not so much an exit interview as a rumination on what...
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Eucalyptus exit, WiseTech's AI cuts, Canva's acquisitions, capping Uber surge prices
It's a slightly different Startup 360 this week with no special guest, so cohosts Simon and Majella take the time to kick around the big news of the last few weeks, from Canva buying two more startups, to WiseTech slashing 2000 coding jobs in favour of AI, UpGuard's $105 million raise and...
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AI hacks, tuning out of tech and keeping up with the models
It’s all about artificial intelligence this week with In the Blink of AI host Georgie Healy joining the show to talk about what many see as the 4th industrial revolution. Majella’s away this week, so Simon enlisted Georgie to talk about this week’s news, including the loss of Techstars Sydney,...
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No jerks, leadership Startmate's social enterprising, Neara to unicorn
This week Startup 360 discusses leadership - and how to do it without being a jerk, with Karlie Cremin, CEO of Dynamic Leadership Programs Australia. Karlie wrote a book about it - Don’t Lead like a Jerk - and Simon and Majella talk to her about the ups and downs of being the boss, confessing the...
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Brian Collins, Tasmania's new startup champion, Australian VC funding, Musk & the Epstein files
Startup 360 looks south this week, for a conversation with fintech investor Brian Collins about his new role as CEO of Enterprize Tasmania.Brian, deputy chair of Fintech Australia, and cofounder of fintech VC Triple Bubble with Dom Pym and Judy Anderson-Firth, spent more than a decade in Silicon...
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Airwallex, SXSW Sydney, Sendle and GreenPay's Maddi Ingham
Welcome back to Startup 360 for 2026. For the first episode of the year, Majella and Simon talk about the big news of Summer: · The sudden collapse of parcel delivery platform Sendle · The end of SXSW Sydney · Airwallex calling in lawyers to ask media to take down critical stories Our guest for...
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What Australia can learn from US startup life - and our Tall Poppy problem
When Jim Cooper, CEO of Blue-X, a California-based innovation services company for startups, moved to the US three decades ago, he had some trepidations. Now he loves it, but the former Sydneysider is back "home" for Christmas and in his shorts, to share his experiences on the final Startup 360...
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Blackbird's investment ups and downs, key sales lessons for founders and AI slop
Back in 2016, around the time LaunchVic was kicking off in Melbourne, Dave McManus left the city for Silicon Valley, determined to become a startup founder. Now he's back in Melbourne and the founder of Lightning Ventures has plenty of stories to tell and advice to share on episode 40 of Startup...
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Kiki's NYC red card, CSIRO cuts, finding your next startup in your current one
Alex Miller was having rapid success with his subscription management platform Hudled when he spotted a nugget of insight in that startup and launched a second, Rechargly. Like a Marvel movie spinoff, he's now enjoying even more success, as Alex explains on episode 39 of Startup 360. Cohosts…
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StrongRoom liquidation latest, Warren Buffett's final thoughts, Australian-grown coffee ambitions
This week's Startup 360 kicks off with cohost Simon Thomsen recounting the two days spent in the NSW Supreme Court this week as senior council for the liquidators of failed medtech StrongRoom AI probed cofounder and former CEO Max Mito, and director Divesh Sangvhi, about the potential insolvency…
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The joy of giving: lessons in philanthropy from Pledge 1%'s Antonia Ruffell
Startup 360 cohost Simon Thomsen is flying solo this week, taking a deep dive into philanthropy with Antonia Ruffell, CEO of StartGiving, and the Australian MD of global tech charity initiative Pledge 1%. Technology is transforming the art of giving - with companies such as Atlassian, Canva and…
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From corporate law to being a better bloke - Luna's Ronen Heine on masculinity and setting an example
A decade ago, Ronen Heine tossed in his career as a corporate lawyer at a top tier law firm for life as a startup founder and adviser. "I was doing lots of fancy work on the outside, but dead on the inside," the founder of Luna tells Startup 360. "It was funny because no one took me seriously....
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Why air conditioning is more power hungry than chilled and filled with industrial espionage
Air conditioning is doesn't sound like a sexy startup problem, but Conry Tech cofounder Sam Ringwaldt knows more than most how profound its impact on us and the planet will be as climate change takes hold. "It's a really vicious irony that the main solution that we're relying on to mitigate the...
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How 5 time founder Preethi Mohan learnt how to get sh*t done
Preethi Mohan was in the middle of a corporate life at Google when she had a revelation about life as a startup founder. Her latest and 5th startup, Press Play Ventures, a 12-week accelerator program coaches women on the move from corporate life to startup founder, and in just 18 months, has…
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How a female founder solved the problem of men's fertility and testosterone using undies
Brace for puns with week as Startup 360 talks to Saara Jamieson, founder of Cool Beans Underwear, about how her revolutionary way of taking care of man bits came about. Saara was a finalist in the Best New Founder category of Startup Daily Best in Tech awards (the winner was Rebecca Keeley from...
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The extraordinary adventures of Best in Tech Industry Champion Mick Liubinskas
This week's Startup 360 is a little different as cohosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell frock up for the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards. That's the key theme of this week's episode and we celebrate one of the winners by replaying our conversation with Climate Salad cofounder Mick…
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Making music with AI, getting savvy about cars
Charlie Chan's musical career began at age 3 with a ukulele. It broke. But growing up in the '70s, Charlie was part of the dawn of consumer electronics and computers, experimenting with home electronics kits, and by the '90s as the internet age began, they went online to share their music with…
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Cicada x Tech23 special: lessons from a 2nd-time founder & killing off meetings
This week on Startup 360, we talk to two founders who presented at Cicada x Tech23. Engineer Nick Hazell is back with his second climate tech startup, Algenie, having previously raised $120 million as cofounder of plant-based meat venture v2food. Also on the couch is Ana Belgun from…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every Friday, Startup 360 hosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell, dissect the news of the week in ANZ startups, before they’re joined by a guest to explore what makes them tick.
Think of it as your startup guide to staying human.
It’s all about lifting the bonnet on people to understand how they see the world and what inspires and drives them, and what they’ve learnt from both success and failure.
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Startup Daily
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