Sachin and Adam

This week we sat down with the founder of Hustle Fund, Elizabeth Yin.

Hustle Fund is one of the most well known pre-seed brands in the US and has over $100 million of assets under management.

In a former life, Elizabeth was an entrepreneur, worked at google and was a partner at 500 startups. We chatted to her about all her career learnings and how she has built such a strong VC brand. 

This week we were joined by one of the most insightful and storied technology leaders Wesley Chan. Wesley started his career as chief of staff to Larry Page and Sergey Brin the Google co-founders. In this role he founded Google Analytics, Google Voice and Google Ventures. Wesley then went on to become the managing director at Felicis ventures before co-founding FPV ventures. We dived into Wesleys learnings at Google, his early life, why he is motivated by acceptance and the characteristics of a great investor.

We talked with Nicole Quinn, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of the leading VC firms in the US with over $20 billion of AUM.

She focuses on early stage consumer internet companies and has invested in breakout startups like Calm and Cameo. Before this she was the head of US consumer research sales at Morgan Stanley.

We chatted about her early life, the influence of her mentor Jeremy Liew (who lead Snapchat's first investment), how she wins in consumer investing and what to look for in great consumer companies.

This week we were delighted to be joined the legendary Abheek Anand partner at Peak XV (formerly Sequoia). We dived into how Abheek manufacturers luck, founding a company that was acquired by Facebook and becoming a great investor at Sequoia. We also spent some time talking about the future of VC in SEA.

This week we were delighted to be joined the legendary Abheek Anand partner at Peak XV (formerly Sequoia). We dived into how Abheek manufacturers luck, founding a company that was acquired by Facebook and becoming a great investor at Sequoia. We also spent some time talking about the future of VC in SEA.

This week we talked with Ben Thompson, who is the founder of unicorn startup Employment Hero.

Ben is the first repeat guest on The Sachin and Adam Show and is said by many to be one of the great tech CEO's in Australia.

We chatted with Ben about how he has navigated growing his company during the difficult macro environment, some of the new products he's releasing and how he thinks about business strategy.

We are also very lucky to have Employment Hero support us as a sponsor of the podcast. Make sure you search Global Teams by Employment Hero. You can get your first months management fee free! All you need to do is go onto the Employment Hero website and click on the “request a demo” button on the website, and mention Sachin & Adam. You can find more at https://employmenthero.com/products/employer-of-record/

This episode is also sponsored by Recess a great Aussie startup providing furniture for your home and office. They’ve fitted out thousands of Aussies including the offices of Eucalyptus, Lyka and Afterwork. Use the code SACHINANDADAM for 20% off your next order. Check them out: https://recess.com.au/

This week we were delighted to have Jonathan Hsu, co-founder of Tribe Capital. We discussed Jonathans upbringing, background in physics, the invention of data science, takeaways from being a partner at Social Capital and building Tribe. We learnt so much from this conversation and it’s not one to be missed.

This week on the podcast you won't be hearing from us and instead from the folks at The Startup Podcast. This is one of our favourite startup podcasts in Australia because of how tactical it is for founders. We decided to post it on our feed this week. Enjoy!

Episode Description

We’re all storytellers. It’s the way we first begin to learn and it's the way we have communicated important information for thousands of years. However, it is the skill we practice the least. As startup operators, if you were a better storyteller imagine what you could accomplish. You would be able to engross and inspire potential investors and employees in any situation and be able to explain features better to your teams and get more work done.  How, you ask?

Today we say “F*ck the Slides” with special guest, author of the upcoming book, storytelling expert and passionate salesperson - Nir Zavaro. In this episode Nir and Yaniv explore the importance of storytelling for founders. In doing so they delve into the “trailer” and “toilet” pitches, when to use them and how crucial they are for a founder to get right. Nir’s knowledge and experience is on show in this one, don’t miss it!

This week we interviewed Vinny Pujji, the founder of Left Lane Capital, a NY based venture fund that has over $2 billion USD of assets under management. What's remarkable about Vinny is his accelerated timeline: he left Insight Partners at only 27 years of age to start his firm. We chatted about his background, motivations, investing style and building a VC.

This episode is sponsored by our friends at Employment Hero. Make sure you search Global Teams by Employment Hero. You can get your first months management fee free! All you need to do is go onto the employment hero website and click on the “request a demo” button on the website, and mention Sachin & Adam. You can find more at https://employmenthero.com/products/employer-of-record/

This episode is also sponsored by Recess a great Aussie startup providing furniture for your home and office. They’ve fitted out thousands of Aussies including the offices of Eucalyptus, Lyka and Afterwork. Use the code SACHINANDADAM for 20% off your next order. Check them out: https://recess.com.au/

This week we had the pleasure of talking to Dr Andy Kuper, the founder of LeapFrog Investments. Andy has been a personal hero of ours for a long time showing that you can have profit and purpose at the same time. LeapFrog has reached 250m with its portfolio companies in developing nations whilst performing strongly as a fund. We dug into Andy’s past, impacts of studying philosophy and the journey of building LeapFrog.