The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal Archiv

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Welcome to episode #93 w Kelly Godfrey! Please enjoy. 

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TIMESTAMPS

02:02 - What was your first job and now?

 

02:40 - High Flyer in xx life

 

03:34 - Family memories

 

05:16 - Mum’s influence

 

07:19 - Gymnasts training 4x a week

 

08:46 - London and Brighton

 

10:41 - Success at age 18

 

12:03 - Painful learning

 

14:48 - Becoming Marketing Director within 6 years

 

18:09 - Building social capital

 

21:52 - Agency to in house marketing

 

25:33 - Leading marketing for ancestry.com

 

29:15 -  Role of marketing in customer discovery

 

30:35 - Moving roles and countries at same time

 

35:15 - Success in first 3 months of new role

 

40:34 - Taking a sabbatical in 2018

 

46:57 - Exploring opportunities post sabbatical

 

50:47 - Learnings about growth in new markets

 

54:00 - StockX being at the cutting edge of culture

 

56:07 - Rapid fire

 

Explore your curiosity with Elise Kennedy, who leads the Australian equity research team covering tech and internet stocks at the investment bank, Jarden. I really wanted to have Elise on because equity markets, inflation, interest rates, and the general economy are a hot topic of interest.

Learn about the status of current markets and why we’re in this position, how are companies rated as under or over valued, the role of M&A and leveraged buyouts during volatility, geographical impact, tourist investors perhaps exiting the market and more. 

Please enjoy! 

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TIMESTAMPS

01:46 - Elise’ path into investment banking

 

02:56 - Life as an associate

 

03:52 - Life now as Vice President

 

04:32 - Perception vs reality of titles like Managing Director

 

05:15 - Overview of current markets (public and private)

 

07:18 - Tech companies seeing sell offs despite strong fundamentals

 

09:09 - How do investment banks rate a stock as under or overvalued?

 

11:55 - Tech pull back vs broader economy

 

14:12 - Inflation impact on the consumer

 

16:07 - Geographical impact and correlation between Australia and the US

 

18:18 - Does Elise’ role change in an up vs down market

 

19:29 - The role of M&A and leveraged buyouts in volatility

 

21:32 - Opportunities for VC’s deploying capital at better valuations

 

23:51 - “Tourist” investors leaving the market

 

25:14 - Super funds tightening capital allocation

 

26:56 - Cross over funds requiring re-alignment of exposure

 

27:36 - Metrics of EBITDA, Price to earnings ratio, CAGR

 

29:09 - Filtering through speculation

 

32:30 - Structuring work week and reports Elise reads

 

34:05 - Elise using her recreational pilots license to switch off

 

36:00 - Personal areas of investment interest

 

Explore your curiosity with Gael Aitor, one of 5 hosts of the largest teen mental health podcast in the world called Teenager Therap, based in the US. We connected a few months ago through a mutual friend and this was great fun.

Learn about how they started this podcast and movement in their quest to talk about and Improve mental heath, their 3 biggest learnings to date, actionable insights on how we can all improve our mental health and we went deep into the state of podcasting, media and some of the innovation and trends we’re excited to see. 

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TIMESTAMPS

01:46 - Moving to the US from Mexico at age 16

 

02:30 - Starting the largest teen mental health podcast (globally)

 

02:50 - Discovering podcasts for the first time

 

04:18 - Biggest learnings about the root cause behind mental health issues

 

08:30 - Core root causes of a lack of mental health amongst all age groups

 

10:40 - how to improve your mental health space

 

14:38 - Balancing performance with inner relaxation

 

15:51 - How mental health differs based on culture and country

 

18:26 - The role of social media in vulnerability and connection

 

22:45 - Seeking approval as a creator based on likes and comments

 

24:07 - Most exciting trends over next 12 months in podcasts and media

 

27:35 - Changing landscape of media and discovery limitations

 

31:15 - Building a niche vs generalist show

 

33:21 - Vidit & Gael riff on what they’d love to have in podcasts 

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Welcome to episode #90 w Dom Pym! Please enjoy. 

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TIMESTAMPS

03:09 - Where were you born and live now?

 

03:33 - What was your first job and now?

 

05:20 - High Flyer in Dom’s life

 

07:34 - Growing up in the mountains

 

09:25 - Rich dad poor dad

 

13:33 - Always being a bullet train

 

16:46 - Meeting now wife when they were 6 yrs old

 

19:20 - 3 traits for his kids to have

 

22:00 -  First trip overseas, to South Korea

 

27:37 -  Getting through bad days and pain

 

30:01 - Setting goals monthly, quarterly and annually

 

38:43 - Importance of healthy body and mind to be successful

 

41:25 - How to scale Dom to have the most impact and get the rest he deserves?

 

43:19 - How to build trust from scratch?

 

46:11 - Inspiration for the creativity of Up Bank

 

51:30 - Biggest commercial difference between physical and digital bank

 

54:46 - First time investing in startups and how it happened

 

1:00:52 - How to add value beyond capital

 

01:01:48 - Final sprint

 

Explore your curiosity about the community centred startup Dan & his co-founders are building in Earlywork, that’s scaled from 0 to 3000 members.

I’ve enjoyed being a member of this community from the early days so this was fun to learn more about how the co-founders compliment each other, Dan’s personal learning journey, why raising funding is not the mark of success, managing quantity vs engagement and more. 

Please enjoy! 

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TIMESTAMPS

01:54 - Sydney, Wollongong and Bondi

 

03:08 - Siblings being high flyers

 

04:25 - Tattoos and creative

 

04:58 - Unknowns of co-founding team at EW

 

08:26 - Founding team being a community, building a community

 

11:31 - Dan’s own personal learning journey

 

14:23 - Founders 12 months ahead as support

 

15:49 - Growth & fundraising for a community first startup

 

19:33 - Initial investment not being success

 

24:46 - Hardest learning to date

 

27:48 - Revenue models for community based startup

 

30:02 - Managing quantity vs engagement

 

33:08 -Anonymity in community

 

36:10 - Founders not being the first line of contact

 

38:07 - Key opportunity in next 12 months

 

39:39 - Two questions Dan gets the most

 

42:00 - Most engaged social platforms beyond slack

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Welcome to episode #88 w James Tynan! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

1. Growing up in an ambitious household, being very driven from day 1

2. Why James felt the need to move to the US post university

3. Key learning from scaling Khan Academy from a YouTube channel to the world’s biggest ed tech (at that time)

4. Energy management learnings from dealing with a number of autoimmune illnesses

5. Behind the scenes of James' workings with founders & personal development areas

Please enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS

02:58 - Fun facts about James

 

03:38 - Wife Kate being a high flyer

 

04:33 - Big change when James was 10 years old

 

05:20 - Parents in architecture and medicine

 

05:44 - Personality in high school

 

06:36 - Biggest influence in first 10 years

 

07:42 - Success at age 18

 

09:41 - How life changed in first year of university

 

11:38 - Learning movement building with Obama 2008 campaign

 

13:17 - 4 key learnings from scaling Khan Academy, joining very early

 

16:50 - Critical story that helped understand emotional intelligence

 

19:16 - How the move back to Australia happened

 

20:31 - Seeing the building of Australia’s startup ecosystem in 2014

 

22:36 - Energy vs time management

 

25:23 - Why energy management hacks are not useful

 

27:50 -  Balance in Health vs performance

 

29:28 - Transition from startmate to squarepeg

 

32:11 - Joining Squarepeg during COVID lockdowns

 

34:14 - Making founders comfortable in the 1st meeting

 

36:47 - Connection to younger vs seasoned founders

 

39:40 -  How does SquarePeg  differ to other big VC’s?

 

42:49 - SquarePeg’s global presence across ANZ, Israel and Singapore

 

43:58 - Analysis of current economic market

 

45:47 - Does the VC firm or partner matter more?

 

49:02 - Personal investment philosophy outside VC

 

51:12 - Thesis on climate-tech

 

54:57 - Area of improvement focus

 

57:45 - Final sprint

 

Explore your curiosity about the exciting culinary marketplace they’re building, positioned as the amazon for food.

You’ll learn about the journeys of Joint CEO/Co-founders Elle Curan and Josh Abulafia to founding ChefPrep, initial proof points in the first 3 months, how food is disrupting e-commerce, What questions should a restaurant ask before partnering, and hear about their hiring plans over the next 12 months. 

Please enjoy! 

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TIMESTAMPS

02:02 - Elle’s journey to ChefPrep

 

06:19 - Being life and business partners

 

06:52 - Josh’s journey to ChefPrep

 

11:30 - Validating early proof points in ChefPrep

 

16:38 - The ChefPrep model and how it’s evolved

 

21:35 - Consumer behavior and range selection

 

27:52 - What questions should a restaurant ask before partnering?

 

31:46 - Managing volume vs quality when scaling

 

33:16 - Biggest learning to date

 

34:32 - Focuses on hiring over next 12 months

 

35:42 - How to consider the move from corporate to startups? 

 

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Welcome to episode #86 w Kate Cornick! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

1. Grandma’s influence to believe, and outdoorsy childhood with mad passionate for animals

2. Accidentally falling into engineering after moving to Australia in her teens from the UK

3. How shyness evolved and building public speaking skills (great tips for anyone looking to develop!)

4. Building a life of work across academia, business and government, including deputy Chief of Staff 

5. Being headhunted to be CEO @ LaunchVic role after moving on from scaling her startup through to IPO

Please enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS

03:07 - Fun facts about Kate

 

03:39 - Re-imagining a high flyer

 

04:14 - Influence of family growing up in London

 

06:00 -  Learning responsibility and power of work through horses

 

07:40 - Grandma being a big influence to dream big

 

10:24 - Accidentally falling into engineering

 

11:56 - How Kate got past being shy and nervous

 

17:00 - Nerves are selfish

 

18:00 - Success post PhD

 

22:04 - Learning how to build trust from politics

 

29:09 -  Exterior vs Interior leadership

 

33:18 - Insecurity becoming arrogance

 

38:30 - Understanding the business and academic worlds

 

43:38 -  Being headhunted to lead LaunchVic as CEO

 

48:28 - LaunchVic funding startmate and other champions

 

50:45 - The unique unlock of government funding for a startup

 

54:50 - Final sprint

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Explore your curiosity w Abhi Maran & Angela Ching, about the ABC’s of what a DAO is , how you can be involved in this new spin on a community of builders across the Asia pacific region and some special announcements they have coming up

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TIMESTAMPS

02:35 - How did Abhi get involved with DAOs (Decentralised autonomous organisations)

 

04:21 - When did Ange first come across DAOs

 

05:23 - Why was DAO Under created?

 

10:23 - How Ange brings design value to the group

 

13:25 - How have they structured the DAO and design process?

 

15:24 -  Why do you need a DAO to build a community?

 

17:23 - What are pods?

 

20:24 - How does a DAO generate revenue and sustain itself?

 

23:10 -  Do you need a DeFi account to interact with a DAO?

 

24:43 - What separates great from good DAOs?

 

28:01 - Unknowns about DAO’s

 

29:47 - Are there regulations to be aware of?

 

30:30 - Roadmap ahead with exciting launches

 

33:11 - What’s been your biggest learning building this?

 

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Welcome to episode #84 w Alan Jones! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

1. Influences of growing up with dreamer parents and living in 28 houses before age 17

2. Two biggest learnings being a journalist

3. Reflections on being the 2nd employee at Yahoo and employee share plans

4. What do the best founders do when speaking to investors?

5. Five people in the startup ecosystem he's learnt from the most 

Please enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS

03:13 - Where were you born and live now?

 

03:53 - What was your first job and what do you do now?

 

05:17 - Why the unsung hero co-founder of Canva is the most talent technologist in ANZ

 

06:48 - Influenced by “dreamer” parents and learning what entrepreneur meant

 

10:31 - Learning from mum and her perseverance

 

11:25 - Trying journalism, programming and medical paths as career paths

 

15:07 -  The power of building your brand recognition and reputation

 

20:45 - Painful learning investing in hardware

 

24:55 - Being the 2nd employee at Yahoo and stock ownership learnings

 

32:12 - Nurturing up and coming investors

 

37:20 - What are founders not doing to stand out to investors?

 

42:41 - Creating your learning room of 5 operators, founders and investors

 

49:00 - How he’s raising a pre-seed fund in M8 ventures

 

55:33 - Do you feel successful?

 

57:35 - Best investment

 

1:00:23 - Appearing on the 20VC podcast

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Explore your curiosity w Josh Reyes, co-founder of Minke, the future of decentralised finance, how they’re offering safe and efficient yields to combat inflation and building the transparent consumer platform. Encourage you to download their app from the Apple App Store today. 

Please enjoy! 

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TIMESTAMPS

02:12 - Josh’s journey into crypto

 

04:23 - What is Minke?

 

05:32 - What is DeFi and difference vs traditional banking

 

06:52 - How to open a Minke account to deposit your savings

 

09:02 - How does DeFi have attractive interest rates?

 

10:58 - Flexibility with money deposited in savings account

 

11:58 - What is Stablecoin?

 

15:19 - How do central banks impact Minke?

 

16:33 - Building trust with consumers

 

18:01 - Operating in high inflation markets

 

21:43 - Sharia finance in islamic countries

 

23:46 - Low trust vs high trust markets

 

27:03 - Breaking down the recent LUNA crash

 

33:10 - How to evaluate whether to deposit money into DeFi

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Explore your curiosity w String Nguyen, the co-founder of Chubbiverse, a fast growing NFT brand! Learn about the A-Z to help you build your knowledge of this exciting space. 

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TIMESTAMPS

02:18 - How did you get into NFTs and Web3?

 

03:03 - Transition from consumer to builder creating Chubbiverse

 

04:16 - Where do you start with creating a NFT?

 

05:45 - How did you settled on Chubbiverse as your brand?

 

07:30 - What makes NFT’s look the way they do, unpolished?

 

09:31 - What is Product Market Fit in NFTs?

 

11:31 - Supply and demand

 

12:12 - How is an NFT priced?

 

13:27 - Value in Bored Apes

 

14:13 - How do NFT’s differentiate vs the marketplace?

 

15:29 - Importance of influencers to generate discoverability?

 

17:14 - Network effects and fear of missing out

 

17:44 - Why are NFTs the entry point to web3?

 

19:17 - How do you build a revenue model for an NFT?

 

20:39 - Scalability goals

 

21:47 - How do customers engage using Discord / Twitter?

 

23:04 - Do you need a chubbiverse to enter Discord?

 

23:34 - How to build education on ETH?

 

24:26 - Managing spam and building trust

 

26:06 - What news sources help with NFT knowledge?

 

27:12 - How to build a career in NFTs, founder or operator?

 

28:39 - DeFi supporting NFT’s and payments

 

29:35 - Benefit of curiosity 

 

Explore your curiosity w Christie Jenkins + Josh Thomas about bout professional athlete transitions into the business world and how Christie, Josh and nearly a 100 of Australia’s best and brightest athletes across all sporting codes have created an investing syndicate in Athletic Ventures.

Please enjoy! 

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TIMESTAMPS

02:09 - Josh’s career in the AFL

 

03:13 - Christie’s career across 3 sports

 

04:07 - Planning life after sport

 

07:10 - Routines, habits and sprints

 

11:45 - Would you do anything differently if you go back 5 years?

 

14:31 - First interaction with startups and VC

 

17:31 - Knowledge building into venture capital work

 

20:52 - Coach, work ethic and people better than you

 

22:24 - Early days of building Athletic Ventures

 

24:47 - Biggest surprise

 

25:48 - How does Athletic Ventures best serve founders

 

28:26 - Long term excitement for Athletic Ventures

 

29:18 - How should founders view athletic on their cap table

 

31:39 - Most recent publicly announced deal and why

 

34:12 - Industries athletic ventures can best help in

 

36:28 - Key focus on Series A and why

 

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Welcome to episode #80 w Bill Bartee! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

1. How growing up near a NASA facility started Bill's love for science, tech and engineering

2. Reflections on working in Silicon Valley in the 80's seeing the early technology evolution

3. What he learnt from his most painful learning and why one advice has stuck the most 

4. The 5 hall of fame Australian VC's Bill would love to be in a room with

5. Why is deep tech innovation different and how does talent equate in Australia vs the USA

Please enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS

03:03 - Growing up seeing rocket launches

 

03:40 - Papers, washing cars and labourer

 

04:24 - Double nobel prize winner in Physics and Chemistry

 

06:12 - Economically poor, intellectually rich

 

08:01 - Aspirations to be an astronaut

 

09:48 - Building information sources in the 1960/70’s

 

11:07 - 25 year love for Australia

 

12:45 - Working across the spectrum: large, medium and early companies

 

15:13 - Evolution in rate of learning

 

17:54 - what makes people succeed

 

21:08 - 99% of learnings coming from failing

 

23:36 - Not judging a book by it’s cover

 

26:39 - Applying mathematics love to startup investing

 

30:32 - Venture Capital today vs the early 2000’s

 

35:02 - Co-founding 3 x VC firms

 

38:12 - top 5 hall of fame investors

 

41:10 - founders from 2000’s that impressed the most

 

43:47 - metrics in sass vs deep tech

 

48:23 - How do investors help deep tech founders?

 

50:54 - Most challenging mental models

 

52:43 - Talent equation in deep tech: Australia vs USA

 

54:26 - final sprint