The Full Spectrum: Entrepreneur, CEO and Investor - Paul Bassat, Co-Founder and former CEO Seek, and Founder Square Peg [S3.E5]

Paul Bassat makes for a unique 'Scaling Up' episode. As most
listeners will know, Paul and his brother Andrew, along with Matt
Rockman founded Seek in 1997 and in doing so carved the path in
Australia for great technology businesses. This was a time when
the internet itself was in its early days, and it is hard to
fathom the foresight required to build what is now a $8b company.


Paul left Seek in 2011 and has since founded Square Peg, one of
South East Asia’s leading venture capital companies, with
investments including Canva, Deputy, Airwallex and Bruce
Buchanan’s ROKT, who was featured in episode 2 of this
podcast.

Because of the duration and success of Paul’s career, we traverse
time periods in this conversation to extract the key lessons he
has learned through the lens of Seek and how he has applied them
in years since. There is no one in my mind who has seen the full
spectrum of the ecosystems as a founder, a board member and
investor, and so being able to compare and contrast all these
experiences makes for a fascinating conversation.


Paul is a an Australian treasure for so many reasons, and I am
hoping after this conversation you can see why.


Show notes to come.