Billion Dollar Napkin

Ideas so big they fit on a napkin.

In this six-part podcast series, get to know more of Australia's bravest startup founders as they retrace their startup journey with our host – journalist, mathematician, and comedian – Adam Spencer, to discuss the idea that they've ultimately grown into a high-velocity business.

In episode six, Pattr co-founders Sebastian Pedavoli and Dan Nolan illustrate how the startup was born by taking a problem – the need for brands to have quality conversations with customers, away from nasty bots and trolls – and solving it with software. Pattr’s hybrid human-AI community platform helps brands to safeguard their social media by identifying the good and bad in conversations.

To learn more about proving what's possible with AWS Startups, visit https://aws.amazon.com/startups/prove-whats-possible/pattr.

Ideas so big they fit on a napkin. In this six-part podcast series, get to know more of Australia's bravest startup founders as they sit down and retrace their startup journey with our host—journalist, mathematician, and comedian—Adam Spencer, to discuss the idea that they've ultimately grown into a high-velocity business.

In episode five, Mr Yum CTO and co-founder Andrei Miulescu illustrates how tech enabled the startup to revolutionise the humble restaurant menu. Starting out on their startup journey as a visual menu via a QR code, Mr Yum now integrates with leading point of sales and marketing tools – dramatically changing the concept of the restaurant menu and allowing businesses to better serve, connect with and reward their guests.

To learn more about proving what's possible with AWS Startups visit: http://aws.amazon.com/startups/prove-whats-possible.

Ideas so big they fit on a napkin. In this six-part podcast series, get to know more of Australia's bravest startup founders as they sit down and retrace their startup journey with our host, journalist, mathematician, and comedian Adam Spencer, to discuss the idea that they've ultimately grown into a high-velocity business.

In episode four, Omniscient Neurotechnology (o8t) co-founder Stephane Doyen illustrates the challenge medical professionals face in navigating the complexity of the brain. That’s why the startup is building a "GPS for the brain", powered by machine learning, to help improve the lives of billions.

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Ideas so big they fit on a napkin. In this six-part podcast series, get to know more of Australia's bravest startup founders as they sit down and retrace their startup journey with our host, journalist, mathematician, and comedian Adam Spencer, to discuss the idea that they've ultimately grown into a high-velocity business.

To learn more about proving what's possible with AWS Startups, visit the link.

Not all startups are built to solve major problems for customers – sometimes they simply want to help people have fun!

What sets Illuvium apart from earlier generations of games is its use of the Ethereum blockchain as an underpinning technology to enabled trusted commerce. This gives players a secure and immutable method of owning their characters as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), meaning they can trade characters and purchase other assets within the game environment.

On this episode, founders Alex Harper and Angus Goldman illustrate how their startup Swyftx is riding the rocket of the crypto revolution. Wild fluctuations in digital currencies have made and broken many fortunes, but they have also created a massive opportunity for those entrepreneurs smart enough – and brave enough – to build the services that are making this new class of investing possible.