Alasdair is Executive Chairman of Macdoch, a private investment company with offices in Sydney and London. Macdoch comprises of Macdoch Ventures, investing in early stage tech startups, Macdoch Agriculture using capital to drive global climate

#165 Jillian Broadbent: Charting new paths as Board Director in Public & Private sector at Macquarie Bank, Qantas, Woolworths, CEFC & more!

19 days ago 1h 9m

Jillian Broadbent is one of the leading Business and Industry minds, with extensive investment banking industry knowledge and markets expertise, including a deep knowledge of risk management and regulation. She has served on the boards of many

#164 Connor Archbold: Living in 28 homes, Unpacking the magic and learnings building 'Tracksuit', New York, NZ & Family!

26 days ago 1h 13m

Connor is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Tracksuit. Tracksuit provides always-on, beautiful tracking to measure brand health. Tracksuit today covers 1,300 brands including many household names and recently raised $20M dollars in funding from lead

#163 Grant Dooley: Navy, Counsul General in China + Indonesia (+painful learnings); Inside the $2B fund, Breakthrough Victoria!

May 2nd, 2024 1h 18m

Grant Dooley is an experienced international funds manager and the CEO of the $2B Fund, Breakthrough Victoria, with prior roles at Hastings and heading ARA Infrastructure. Grant had a distinguished career as a Foreign Affairs and Diplomatic tra

#162 Adam Jacobs: How he built 'The Iconic' and now 'Hatch', Learnings from selling kitchen knives, personal identity and dad's influence!

Apr 25th, 2024 1h 3m

Adam Jacobs is the Co-Founder of THE ICONIC - A globally recognised online fashion retailer, and the Co-Founder of Hatch - a new venture whose mission is for all people to find meaning in work.Adam was born and lives in Sydney, Australia with b

#162 Adam Jacobs: How he built 'The Iconic' and now 'Hatch', Learnings from selling kitchen knives, personal identity and dad's influence!

Apr 25th, 2024 1h 3m

#161 Holly Ransom: Inspiring journey from Perth to working w Obama, Branson, Gladwell + world events, her grandma and more!

Apr 17th, 2024 57m 12s

Holly Ransom is an internationally acclaimed leadership speaker and consultant – paving the way for leaders across the globe to turn knowledge into action for real-world change. She is CEO of Emergent Global and author of The Leading Edge. Holl

#160 Kell Reilly: The unique journey to becoming Airtree's newest partner in his first ever public interview!

Mar 27th, 2024 1h 21m

Kell is the newest Partner at the Venture Capital firm, Airtree.Before joining Airtree, he spent most of his career in Silicon Valley at renowned firms such as Dragoneer, D1 Capital Partners and General Atlantic, investing in some of the most i

#159 Matteo Franceschetti: Learning english at 24, leaving law to solve sleep, the key traits of a world-class hardware company, raising funding from Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois!

Mar 14th, 2024 1h 7m

Matteo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, the sleep fitness company. Eight Sleep developed a proprietary technology which is redesigning sleep by developing cutting-edge AI and machine learning models to track bio signals during the nigh

#158 Judy Anderson-Firth: Source of "abundant giving" personality, becoming CEO w Dom Pym, democratising access to investing + personal news with her wife!

Mar 6th, 2024 1h 17m

Judy is the Group CEO of Euphemia, the family office for Australian entrepreneur and technologist, Dom Pym. Together they manage ~$65m in investments globally, focussing on Fintech, ClimateTech, women-led startups and startup infrastructure. Pr

#157 Jack Zhang: A rare interview with the Airwallex founder; realities of building a global company, moving from China to Aus at 15 and more!

Feb 21st, 2024 56m 51s

Jack Zhang is the Co-founder and CEO of Airwallex, last valued at $5.6B. Airwallex is a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, offering trusted solutions to manage everything from payments, treasury, and spend management to em

#156 Ahmed Fahour (pt 2 of 2): How he became CEO of Citigroup, NAB, Australia Post; Highlights, Low-lights, Salary Negotiation + more!

Feb 14th, 2024 1h 7m

This is the second and final part of a 2 part special conversation with Ahmed Fahour in a rare public interview appearance. Ahmed is a prominent business executive who has held leadership positions in various organizations around the world. He

#155 Ahmed Fahour (pt 1 of 2): Early life influences, Lebanon, Adversity, Career, Re-marriage + his new CEO role!

Feb 12th, 2024 1h 16m

This is part 1 of a 2 part special conversation with Ahmed Fahour in a rare public interview appearance. Ahmed is a prominent business executive who has held leadership positions in various organizations around the world. He moved to Australia

#154 Larry Marshall: Loosing dad early, building 6 tech companies, 30 yrs in the US, transforming science & innovation culture

Feb 6th, 2024 1h 15m

Dr. Larry Marshall is a distinguished scientist, technology innovator, and business leader with over 25 years of experience. He holds a PhD in Physics and As the longest-serving chief executive of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, he

#153 Mark Suster: Battling ADHD, Selling to Salesforce, Good vs Bad Acquisitions, Venture Capital predictions for 2024!

Jan 23rd, 2024 1h 15m

Mark Suster is a globally renowned Investor, being Partner at Upfront Ventures, based in LA, California. He previously was the founder & CEO of two successful enterprise software companies, the most recent of which was sold to Salesforce.com wh

#152 Holly Kramer: American countryside childhood to becoming a respected Board Director at leading corporates

Jan 9th, 2024 1h 9m

We're joined by Holly Kramer in a very rare public interview appearance. Holly is an experienced non-executive Director and Chief Executive. She is on the boards of leading companies such as Woolworths, ANZ, Fonterra and more. Holly is the form

[Replay] Daniel Petre: Insecurities, reporting to Bill Gates, founding Airtree, building a philantropic nation & more!

Jan 2nd, 2024 1h 5m

This is a replay of our very popular episode with Daniel Petre. He was one one of 5 global VP's under Bill Gates at Microsoft, Co-founded three Venture Capital firms including the globally successful Airtree, and is now building his non for pro

[Replay] Anil Sabharwal: Multicultural roots to leading THREE of Google's nine BILLION active user products!

Dec 29th, 2023 1h 9m

This is a replay of our very popular episode with Anil Sabharwal (one of his only public interviews to date!). Anil is Vice President of Product Management at Google. The company has nine products that have achieved the coveted Billion active u

#151 Sam Sicilia: Humble roots & theorotical physics to managing investments for a multi-billion dollar retirement fund, Hostplus!

Dec 20th, 2023 1h 10m

We're joined by Sam Sicilia in a very rare public interview appearance. Sam is the Chief Investment Officer for the multi-billion dollar superannuation Fund (Retirement savings) Hostplus, often referred to as a 'giant' in the industry with arou

#150 Simon Holmes à Court: A rare public interview -- life influences, tech, energy, politics, climate 200 and the "trim tab"

Dec 6th, 2023 1h 7m

To celebrate this milestone episode 150, we're joined by Simon Holmes à Court in a very rare public interview appearance, and we believe his first about his own story!Simon has stood at the intersection of community, climate action and politics

#149 Roundtable musings w Barnaby Marshall + Vignesh Kumar: Demistifying the fast growing NZ tech ecosystem w Icehouse Ventures and GD1

Nov 21st, 2023 54m 55s

We're joined by Barnaby Marshall, Partner at Icehouse Ventures and Vignesh Kumar, Co-Managing Partner at GD1 in this special "round table musings" demystifying the fast growing New Zealand tech ecosystem.***Episode guiding points:Think of this

#148 Martijn Wilder: Book publishing family, global climate projects in Fiji, Peru, Aus; building Pollination & the National Reconstruction Fund

Nov 5th, 2023 1h 3m

Martijn Wilder is the Founder & CEO of Pollination, a global climate change advisory and investment firm. He is also the chair of the $15B National Reconstruction Fund set up by the Australian Government and was previously Head of Baker & McKen

#147 Sarah Hamilton: Entreprenurial upbringing to building Bella Box + how she's now an investor and advisor to leading companies!

Oct 31st, 2023 50m 14s

Sarah Hamilton is the co-founder of Bellabox, Asia Pacific’s market leading beauty box that she co-founded with her twin sister, and raised investment from leading investors including SquarePeg. Sarah is now an investor, and advisor to many of

#146 Toby Hall: Early influences in the UK and South Africa to becoming a highly regarded healthcare and not for profit executive leader

Oct 22nd, 2023 59m 15s

Toby Hall is an experienced not-for-profit and healthcare executive, having most recently served for 8 years as CEO of St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s second largest healthcare provider, until February 2022. Prior to St Vincent’s, T

#145 Beezer Clarkson: The untold story to becoming partner at Sapphire and unpacking the behind the scenes of global Venture Capital

Oct 9th, 2023 1h 1m

Beezer Clarkson leads Sapphire Partners‘ investments in venture capital funds in the USA and internationally -- and is widely recognised as one of the most prominent LP's (Limited Partners) thanks to her decade plus time in the industry and ini