Sachin and Adam

Phil Moffitt was a partner at Goldman Sachs for 20 years before starting the impact investment firm, Beckon Capital. In this episode we discussed Phil’s upbringing and his journey to the biggest prize on Wall Street. We then dived deep into his study of psychology and his reasons for co-founding Beckon Capital and the firms philosophy, diving deep into 'impact 3.0'. We finished off discussing his advice for future leaders and as always finished off with a quick fire round of questions

Show notes:

https://beckon.capital/

Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Podcast: The Jolly Swagman Podcast

Hobbies: Surfing, Sail, Skiing.

Harry Guinness is CEO and co-founder of Australia's newest think tank, the Blueprint Institute. The Blueprint Institute "exists to inspire reform with bold ideas, honest conversations and evidence-based research". 

Before starting Blueprint, Harry had a wide-ranging career that saw him playing professional rugby for the Brumbies, studying at Oxford, working in the Attorney General's office focusing on countering violent extremism and working as a foreign policy adviser to Julie Bishop. 

We discussed with Harry the lessons he's learnt from his extraordinary career, why he decided to start a think tank and the political issues that he is most passionate about. 

Book mentioned: The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle 

Podcast mentioned: The Argument - NY Times

Peter Corbett is a partner at Deloitte, the Sydney head of Monitor Deloitte and is Deloitte's National Telecommunications Sector Leader. He's been advising companies on strategic business decisions at Deloitte for over 15 years. Before that he worked at Macquarie Bank and started a number of companies. 

We talked to Peter about why strategy is important in business and how to think strategically, long-term strategic narratives for media, telco and tech businesses and some advice for students in their 20's. 

Books/Podcasts mentioned: 

Playing to Win- Alan G. Lafley and Roger Martin

The Pyramid Principle- Barbara Minto

Masters in Business- Bloomberg 

This week we sat down with the ever inspiring Rohit Bhargava. Rohit’s podcast ‘The Startup Playbook’ is ranked number 3 on iTunes and he has interviewed the likes of Malcom Turnbull and Cal Henderson (co-founder Slack). We spoke to Rohit about his experiences with failure, avoiding a linear career path, his learnings from guests and his passions for business. Rohit has had the opportunity to aggregate the wisdom from hundreds of the worlds business leaders and has his own experiences founding diverse businesses. His reflection and insights are extremely relevant for those considering stepping off the beaten track.

Recommendations

Atomic Habits- James Clear

Can’t Hurt Me- David Goggins

Masters of Scale- Reid Hoffman (podcast)

Peter Bruce-Clark is a partner at the venture capital firm Social Impact Capital. Social Impact Capital specialises in impact investing, which are investments that achieve strong financial returns whilst also making social impact in the domains of energy, water, food, health, environment, education, housing, access to capital, and social justice. He also makes angel investments and has previously worked with organisations such as Real Capital Innovation, Kalytix and PwC.

We chatted to him about his career journey, how he identifies great investments and how he combines his vision of social impact with venture investing.

Books and podcasts mentioned: 

Severance - Ling Ma

Masters in Business - Bloomberg 

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with a visionary that well and truely blew us away, Jack Manning Bancroft. Jack is the founder of AIME, an award-winning social movement that uses mentoring and imagination to unlock the potential of marginalised youth to create a fairer world. Jack has been working on AIME for the last 16 years and in that time created the largest uni student volunteer movement in Australian history, taken 15,000 indigenous students out of inequality and successfully closed the educational gap for each cohort. Our conversation included Jacks vision for the world, how he grew AIME, advice to future change makers and his journey with spirituality. Enjoy!

More about AIME: https://aimementoring.com/

This week's guest was Michael Trail, the co-founder of Macquarie Group's private equity business, Macquarie Direct Investment, and was also the founding CEO of Social Ventures Australia (SVA).  

Currently Michael spends his time as Executive Director at For Purpose Investment Partners, is the Chair of the Paul Ramsey Foundation and is a director at multiple organisations such as Sunsuper, MH Carnegie & Co, and Australian Philanthropic Services.  

Michael details his enormous career across finance, social impact and in non-profit organisations in his book 'Jumping Ship: From the World of Corporate Australia to the Heart of Social Investment'.  

You can get the book here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Jumping-Ship-Corporate-Australia-Investment/dp/1743792573

This week we sat down with one of Australia’s startup icons, Airtasker founder and CEO Tim Fung. Most of you will know Airtasker, a platform where you can connect with experts to get any job done. We discussed when Tim decided to leave the corporate world, the origins of Airtasker, what it means to be a good ‘executor’ and technology trends. You are in for an amazing episode.

Books mentioned by Tim

Change Your Questions Change Your Life- Marliee Adams

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts- Annie Duke

Thinking, Fast and Slow- Daniel Kahneman

This week we sat down with Sean Stuart, author of ‘The Curious Ape’, a book that explores the 25 most powerful ideas on the Joe Rogan Podcast. In true Rogan fashion we had a free flowing conversation about everything from our versions of a utopia, tribes, the war on drugs to mental health. Sean also studies science/law at USYD and interns at the venture capital firm Blackbird. Happy 2021 and enjoy!

This week we sat down with Sean Stuart, author of ‘The Curious Ape’, a book that explores the 25 most powerful ideas on the Joe Rogan Podcast. In true Rogan fashion we had a free flowing conversation about everything from our versions of a utopia, tribes, the war on drugs to mental health. Sean also studies science/law at USYD and interns at the venture capital firm Blackbird. Happy 2021 and enjoy!