The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

#120 Tim Doyle + Alex Badran: Provocations & Round tables with the founders of Healthcare Tech startup, Eucalyptus and Pocket Money App, Spriggy


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New series! In this episode #120 w Alex Badran and Tim Doyle,  learn about:

  • 02:36 - Alex and Tim’s memories of meeting each other
  • 03:30 - Opportunity in marketing from capital allocation and media management
  • 04:10 - Probabilities and thinking in frameworks
  • 04:57 - Alex’s memories of winning competitions watching cricket
  • 06:56 - Grounding first principles in a logical framework from mathematics
  • 08:14 - Why not enter finance post PhD in math?
  • 10:38 - Career selection and matching interests and skills
  • 12:07 - Balance between data and judgement in decision making
  • 18:05 - Do founders have to evolve thinking from Seed stage to Series B and beyond?
  • 20:28 - Drawing inference to the needs of a population for product building
  • 22:02 - Role of data in performance marketing
  • 23:47 - Campaign at Eucalyptus that surprised Tim the most
  • 25:08 - Current phase of marketing being hyper local optimisation
  • 27:06 - Finding product market fit for the second act of the business
  • 33:24 - Customer problems, business problems, vision
  • 35:06 - Generalist vs specialists
  • 39:10 - Formulating team skill sets
  • 41:15 - Combination of personalities effective at specific times and not others
  • 44:18 - Outsource anything that doesn’t make your beer taste better
  • 47:17 - What makes someone the best?
  • 51:30 - Dreamers, leavers and settlers
  • 54:50 - Transitioning from corporate to a startup
  • 56:42 - Key learning for Alex and Tim in next 6 months

It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

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