All episodes

Ep220 – Adam Ewart (Co-founder & CEO – Send My Bag) on bootstrapping Send My Bag from a uni side project to global service

Ep219 – Stirling Mortlock (Co-founder – XV Capital) on the journey from Wallabies Captain to Sports-Tech Investor

Ep218 – Nipun Mehra (Co-founder & CEO – Ula) On Ula’s hypergrowth, Bezos backing & the hard call to shut down

Ep217 – Dr Steven Lu (Co-founder & CMO – Everlab) on building the future of preventative health

Ep216 – Chris Withers (Founder & CEO – Klikit) on lessons from Uber & Gojek, beating cancer & solving hard problems

Ep215 – Ben Dunphy (Co-founder & Partner – January Capital) on data-driven VC & leveraging both equity & credit for growth

Ep214 – Pan Koutlakis (Co-founder & CEO – EatClub) on rebuilding EatClub from $0 revenue to global expansion after COVID

Ep213 – Rob Phillpot (Co-founder – Aconex) on scaling Aconex to a $1.6B exit and launching a $50M founders fund

Ep212 – Matt Loop (Head of Asia – Rippling) on Leadership, Hiring & Growing Iconic Tech Companies

Ep211 – Jodie Imam (Co-founder & CEO – Tractor Ventures) on startup exits, scaling with content and life-changing personal systems

Ep210 – James Fuller (Co-founder & CEO – Hnry) on turning a spreadsheet into platform processing $2.6B

Ep209 – Mathew Ellis (Co-founder & CTO – Kismet) on vertical ownership and high performing teams

Ep208 – Jane Martino (Co-founder & Chair – Smiling Mind) on founder mental health, mindfulness & multiple exits

Ep207 – Dean Swan (VP for APJ at Monday.com) on growing Monday.com zero to $100M+ in APJ

Ep206 – Adam Schwab (Co-founder & CEO – Luxury Escapes) on reinventing Luxury Escapes & Scaling to $1B+ GTV

Ep205 – Damir Cuca (Founder & CEO – Basiq) on building and exiting 2x startups and being a father of six

Ep204 – George Hartley (Co-founder & Co-CEO – Bluethumb) on lessons from building a $100M art marketplace

Ep203 – Ben Pfisterer (Co-founder & CEO – Zeller) on becoming the fastest Australian company to achieve unicorn status

Ep202 – Josh Ball (Co-founder – Farmers Pick) on using tech to save 7 million kg of food waste

Ep201 – Cheryl Mack (Co-founder & CEO – Aussie Angels) on how to get started as an angel investor

Ep200 – Jason Wyatt (Co-founder & CEO – Marketplacer) on shutting down 8 companies to go all in on Marketplacer

Ep199 – Jaimie Fuller (Former CEO & Chairman – SKINS) on building SKINS and bouncing back from bankruptcy

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

Ep197 – Paul Stovell (Founder & CEO – Octopus Deploy) on turning a weekend project to a $100M ARR business

Ep196 – Cam Falloon (Founder & CEO – BFT) on overcoming adversity and scaling to 700+ studios globally

Ep195 – Leigh Jasper (Co-founder & Co-CEO – Firmable) on jumping back in the founder seat after a $1.6B exit

Ep194 – Jon Gregory (Founder & CEO – Vitruvian) on product led growth and relentless positivity

Ep193 – Llew Jury (General Partner & Exec Chairman – Sprint Ventures) on nurturing talent and building generational companies

Ep192 – Rohit Bhargava (Host – The Startup Playbook Podcast) on lessons from 8 years of podcasting (AMA episode)

Ep191 – Stew Glynn (Co-founder & Managing Partner – TEN13 VC) on lessons from investing $100M

Ep190 – Taryn Pieterse (Partner – Rampersand) on Rampersand’s AAA approach to investing

Ep189 – Jalal Shaik (Founder & CEO – GAMEFACE AI) on AI, persistence and M&A pitfalls

Ep188 – Jessy Wu (Partner – AfterWork VC) on brand, storytelling and community powered VC

Ep187 – George Peppou (Founder & CEO – Vow) on talent, health and building the future of food

Ep186 – Rohen Sood (General Partner – Reinventure) on the story behind investing in Coinbase

Ep185 – Maxine Minter (Founder & GP – Co Ventures) on pre-seed, performance and mental models

Ep184 – Adrian Osman (Co-founder & COO – Me&U) on metrics, ratios and mergers

Ep183 – Howard Leibman (Founder & General Partner – EVP) on being the “founder whisperer”

Ep182 – Rolf Weber (CEO – Marley Spoon Australia) on building culture through resilience

Ep181 – James Tynan (Partner – Square Peg Capital) on storytelling & entering the business olympics

Ep180 – Daniel Petre (Co-founder – Start Giving) on family, philanthropy and truth seeking

Ep179 – Ben Thompson (Co-founder & CEO – Employment Hero) on growth, PMF & principles

Ep178 – Tobi Skovron (Co-founder & CEO – Creative Cubes) on the curse of ambition

Ep177 – Sam Kothari (Co-founder & COO – Everlab) on building world class teams and reinventing the primary care experience

Ep176 – Luke Anear (Founder & CEO – SafetyCulture) on lessons from building a $2.7B company

Ep175 – Ed Hooper (Co-founder & CEO – GXE) on frameworks, exits and investing

Ep174 – Alexandra Zatarain (Co-founder – Eight Sleep) on branding, company DNA and category creation

Ep173 – Mark Woodland (Co-founder & CEO – Kismet) on timing, leadership & high performance

Ep172 – Ben Grabiner (Co-founder & General Partner – Side Stage Ventures) on VC as a product

Ep171 – Micha Kaufman (Co-founder & CEO – Fiverr) on risk, virality and frameworks

Ep170 – Pete Davis (Co-founder & CEO – 1FF) on building the future of football

Ep169 – Jax Vullinghs (Partner – AirTree) on valuations, IC and moats

Ep168 – Will On (Co-founder & Co-CEO – Shippit) on fundraising, secondaries and the Co-CEO model

Ep167 – Justin Lipman (Partner – EVP) on metrics, focus and valuations

Ep166 – Dan Krasnostein (Partner – Square Peg Capital) on teaching, culture and conviction

Ep165 – Glenn Rogers (Co-founder & CEO – Float) on focus, constraints & scale

Ep164 – Chris Hitchen (Managing Partner – Possible Ventures) on investing in the possible

Ep163 – Jaddan Comerford (CEO – Unified Music Group) on investing in creativity

Ep162 – Dan Peters (Managing Director – Clearco) on partnerships, benchmarks and data driven capital

Ep161 – Steve Baxter (Partner – TEN13 VC) on capability, competitors & investing

Ep160 – Sam Crowther (Co-founder & CEO – Kasada) on sales, structure and the founder journey

Ep159 – Niki Scevak (Co-founder & Partner – Blackbird VC) on raising ambition

Ep158 – Andy Fallshaw (Co-founder & CEO – Bellroy) on taking the stairs vs the elevator

Ep157 – David Shein (General Partner – Our Innovation Fund) on lessons from building Australia’s first unicorn

Ep156 – Matt Browne (Co-founder & Managing Partner – Black Nova VC) on the rise of Founder VCs

Ep155 – Ash Davies (Founder & CEO – Tablo) on pivots, side hustles and self awareness

Ep154 – Nick Franklin (Founder & CEO – ChartMogul) on pricing, metrics and fundstrapping

Ep153 – Rohit Bhargava AMA on 5 years of the Startup Playbook Podcast

Ep152 – Alister Coleman (Co-founder & Managing Partner – Folklore VC) on due diligence, focus and multigenerational funds

Ep151 – Kylie Frazer (Co-founder & Partner – Flying Fox VC) on term sheets, rolling funds and founder runway

Ep150 – Rick Baker (Partner – Blackbird Ventures) on culture, innovation & the rule of no exits

Ep149 – Phil Morle (Partner – Main Sequence Ventures) on leaps, equity and the art of flearning

Ep148 – Matt Elsley (Co-founder & CEO – Qsic) on teams, fundraising and enterprise sales

Ep147 – Wendell Keuneman (General Partner – Tidal Ventures) on building your product principles

Ep146 – Federico Collarte (Co-founder & CEO – Baraja) on building the future of autonomous vehicles

Ep145 – Ashik Ahmed (Co-founder & CEO – Deputy) on COVID, conviction and customer obsession

Ep144 – David Lemphers (Co-founder & CEO – Code Pilot) on exits, thinking big and creating gold standards

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

Ep142 – Al Bentley (Founder & CEO – Simply Wall St) on building your growth engine

Ep141 – Alex Zaccaria (Co-founder & CEO – Linktree) on viral growth, customer focus and intuition

Ep140 – Kate Kendall (Founder – Atto & Indie Labs) on power dynamics, advisors & community

Ep139 – Mahesh Muralidhar (CEO – NZ ScaleUp) on creating a winning culture

Ep138 – Hugh Stephens (Founder – Galileo VC) on constraints, pricing dynamics & fundraising

Ep137 – Matt Allen (CEO – Tractor Ventures) on believers, secondaries & confidence capital

Ep136 – Manuri Gunawardena (Founder & CEO – HealthMatch) on setting your North Star

Ep135 – Gabby Leibovich (Co-founder – The Catch Group) on culture, leadership & kissing frogs

Ep134 – Jason Wilby (Co-founder & Co-CEO – Open) on risk, purpose and shared values

Ep133 – David Shein (GP – Our Innovation Fund) on legendary customer service

Ep132 – Guy Pearson (Founder & CEO – Practice Ignition) on vision, storytelling & ecosystems

Ep131 – Domm Holland (Co-founder & CEO – Fast) on networks, transparency & focus

Ep130 – Rachael Neumann (Founder – Working Theory Angels) on trust, talent & golden metrics

Ep129 – James Chin Moody (Co-founder & CEO – Sendle) on systems, reputation & hell yeahs!

Ep128 – Holly Cardew (Founder – Pixc & Vop) on TikTok, vision and channel partnerships

Ep127 – Lachlan Donald (Co-founder & CEO – Buildkite) on equity over ego

Ep126 – Ben Pfisterer (Co-founder & CEO – Zeller) on the theory of horizons

Ep125 – Adam Milgrom (Venture Partner – Giant Leap Fund) on building your decision-making muscle

Ep124 – Tim Fung (Co-founder & CEO – Airtasker) on value, trust & the longtail

Ep123 – Tim Doyle (Founder – Eucalyptus) on Discipline, Differentiation and Data

Ep122 – Leanne Kemp (Founder & CEO – Everledger) on exits, trust and coevolution

Ep121 – Robert Bell (CEO – 86 400) on balance, feedback and smarter banking