This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with the visionary that is Fred Schebesta. Fred is the founder of Finder, a crypto titan and the author of ‘Go Live! 10 Principles to Launch a Global Empire’. We went deep with Fred discussing human behaviour, space, how to find great ideas, the Metaverse and living a better life. Get ready for some conversations that will blow your mind!

Show notes

Freds book: https://www.fredschebesta.com/go-live

Book: The 7 habits of highly effective people

Podcast: Invest Like the Best, Acquired, Masters of Scale

Inspirational figure: Ben Horowitz and Bill Campbell

Hobbies: Minecraft

This week we interviewed African entrepreneur Kaivan Sattar. Kaivan started the digital bank, Asaak, which lends to people in Uganda who previously could not access credit. They have grown dramatically over the past year and are now doing over $1 million US in revenue per year. 

We dived deep into the development prospects of Africa, Kaivan's founding story and the vision he has for Asaak. 

Before founding Asaak, Kaivan worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, Grameen Bank and studied at Colombia and NY University. 

For transparency, both of us made an angel investment into Asaak earlier this year.  

This week we had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Mark Carnegie, one of Australia’s top business titans. Mark was trained on Wall Street by James Wolfensohn and started the investment bank Carnegie, Wylie & Co. Mark then became the CEO of Lazard Australia and later on started M.H.Carnegie & Co, where he works today. We spoke to Mark about his career, what young people should be working on and the world of Crypto/DEFI. Mark is a massive advocate of crypto completely changing the world and we were fascinated to hear his thoughts. We honestly think this podcast was as informative as a business degree.

Show notes: More on Mark: https://www.mhcarnegie.com/our-people

Recommendations by Mark: Poor Charlies Almanack Tim Ferriss and Balaji Podcast: https://tim.blog/2021/03/24/balaji-srinivasan/

Quick fire: Book: Remembrance of Times Past, LBJ biographies. Podcast: Tim Ferriss and Balaji. Inspirational figure you’ve never met: Charlie Munger. Hobby: Trout fishing and sailing

This week we had a 1 on 1 together and chatted about what we've been doing recently, the direction the Sachin and Adam Show is taking, our recent Angel Investment into a Fintech company, and our life in lockdown. Enjoy!

0:26 Introduction

2:50 What we’ve been doing

8:05 Why we’re passionate about technology and venture capital & what we’re building

24:46 Our angel investment into Ugandan Fintech company Asaak

35:15 Learning from online communities

40:40 Life in Lockdown

We had the pleasure of sitting down with James Alexander, one of the youngest people to launch a venture capital fund in Australia. James is a technologist at heart and after studying computer science co-founded one of the first University startup accelerators, Incubate, where he has helped 100+ startups launch their ideas.

What you will learn from this episode

Enjoy!

Show notes

Favourite book: The Black Swan- Nassim Taleb & The Beginning of Infinity- David Deutsch

Podcast: A16Z Technology Podcast

Person: Galileo

Hobbies: Collecting music and Djing

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with the amazing Moses Lo. Moses studied at UNSW and begun his career as a management consultant at BCG before moving to Silicon Valley to pursue entrepreneurship. After completing an MBA from Berkeley, Moses was selected for Y Combinator (YC) where he started his  FinTech company, Xendit. We dived deep into Moses’s upbringing, why he chose management consulting, the experience of YC, scaling Xendit in Indonesia and the differences in culture between Australia and the US. Enjoy!

Show notes:

Moses’s Company: https://www.xendit.co/en/

Moses’s Blog: https://www.moseslo.com/

Book: High Growth Handbook- Elad Gill

Podcast: Masters of Scale- Reid Hoffman

Famous Figure: Martin Luther King

Hobby: Manual Labour

2 years ago when we accidentally started this podcast we joked that if there was one person in the world we could talk to, it would be the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull.

Through a lot of persistence and luck, 60 episodes later we got to meet our hero.

We spoke to Malcolm about the key experiences that defined him as a person, how he was able to build relationships with the most powerful people in Australia in his early 20s and how he reached the highest level of success across industries such as Journalism, Law, Investment Banking and Politics. We then dived into his time as PM and how he was able to maintain his individuality and sense of self. We then moved to a discussion of Malcolm's vision for Australia and how future leaders can step up to address the challenges that lay ahead. We finished off the episode with a round of quick fire questions and asked Malcolm that if he could write a letter to his 22 year old self, what would he say?

Thank you for everyone that’s been on the journey so far and we hope you enjoy the episode.

This week we interviewed Robbie Robertson, who is Sydney Leader of Deloitte Digital, Deloitte's digital consultancy arm. Coming from a design background, Robbie is fascinated about the interaction of design principles, sensory experiences and creating new products.   

We talked to him about how he perceives design, what design consulting looks like and the principles for building the future.

Rowan Kunz is the founder of education business Art of Smart, which does tutoring and mentoring for high-school students. Art of Smart has helped over 6,000 students with their high-school education, their transition to university and with career advice. Rowan was Australia's Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019. Previously, he also founded and sold two other educational businesses. Rowan studied Arts/Law at The University of Sydney.

We talked to him about how he made the decision to start Art of Smart whilst at uni instead of applying for Law clerkships, how uni students should think about optionality when making career decisions and the realities of youth unemployment.

This week we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with the most energetic man we’ve ever met, Muhan Zhang. Muhan was the first employee on Andrew Yangs presidential campaign, started a business out of college and currently runs the angel investing community, ’Startup Investing for All’. We went deep into the journey of a presidential campaign, Andrew Yangs values, the relationship with technology and inequality, universal basic income and feeling connected with your work.

Show Notes

Muhan’s Website: https://muhanzhang.com/

Quick Fire Round

Favourite book: Ultralearning- Scott Young

Podcast: Brene Brown (Unlocking Us & Dare to Lead)

Inspirational figure: Mr Money Moustache

Hobbies: Cooking