Sachin and Adam

This week we had the pleasure of chatting to the co-founder of ImmutableX, Robbie Ferguson. Alongside his brother Robbie has built Immutable into a unicorn at 25 years old. We dived into Robbie’s drivers, Immutable X, the case for web 3 and his leadership lessons. Show notes

Immutable: https://www.immutable.com/

Book: The Culture Series- Ian Banks

Podcast: The Tim Feriss Show

Inspirational figure: The Collison Brothers

Music: LoFi and EDM

Crazy house parties: 16th

What do you do to switch off: Socialising and Exercising

One thing you want to leave the audience with: Mindfulness

Exploring the use of Psychedelic for mental health has interested us since the startup of our podcast. There are few things more important than mental health and this week we dived deep into how Psychedelic Assisted Therapy can be the next frontier in treating mental health. We explored Peter’s motivations, the history of Psychedelic  the current state of Australia’s mental health system and Mind Medicine Australia.     

Show notes:   Mind Medicine Australia: https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au/

This week we interviewed Ross Chaldecott, the co-founder of Kinde. 

They're one of the most hyped startups in the Australian ecosystem, having raised $10m from Blackbird and Felicis Ventures at the pre-product stage. 

They’re building developer acceleration tools to help software startups get up and running easier.

We chatted about his journey, design and starting Kinde.

One to keep your eyes out for in the ecosystem. 

P.S. Apologies for the dodgy audio, our microphone failed 😞

This week we interviewed the NSW Minister for Digital Victor Dominello. 

Sadly on the day of releasing this podcast, Victor announced he is leaving State Politics. 

He was known as one of the truely tech savvy politicians in Australia and had a massive following on social media because of it.  

Under his leadership the NSW Government released initiatives like The Service NSW app, QR code check-ins, the Digital drivers license and the Dine and Discover vouchers.  

We talked to him about his journey into politics, his learnings and his passion for technology.

Enjoy!

This week we interviewed the brilliant and passionate entrepreneur Ronni Kahn. Through her food waste charity Ozharvest, she has provided over 200 million meals to people in need, all from food that would have otherwise have been thrown out.   

She has a remarkable story that took her South Africa to Israel to starting a global organisation.  

We chatted to her about her upbringing, the inspiration behind Ozharvest and how she grew it into what it is today.

This week we interviewed Duncan Anderson, the founder of edtech startup Edrolo. Edrolo is out to change the way that students learn in the classroom.

Duncan is an inspirational figure and an incredibly brilliant figure. He's constantly learning about himself, the world and provides so much wisdom to young people about how they can think more deliberately about their career and impact. 

We discussed his career development at Goldman Sachs and Google, how he came to found a company, building Edrolo, the edtech ecosystem and more.

Paul is one of our favourite guests we’ve ever interviewed. Apart from saying we were his favourite podcast he was humble and shared so much knowledge. We discussed his drivers, building Seek, Square Pegs story and how he finds balance.

Favourite Book: Sapiens- Yuval Noah Harari

Podcast: Masters of Scale- Reid Hoffman

Influential figure you’ve never met: Nelson Mandela

Investment that got away: Linktree

Favourite hobby outside of work: Golf and tennis

What’s a great business that no-one is building: App where users control their data and choose where it gets shared

This week Adam and I sat down in our new studio to have a one on one conversation about life. We got into career updates, goals for the future, balancing our chaotic lives and we played the empathy game live. Enjoy!

Ben Thompson is the business mastermind between many amazing companies including the unicorn Employment Hero. We got into his origin story, the birth of Employment Hero, key business learnings, the future of work, downturn in tech markets and advice for young people. This isn’t an episode you want to miss.

Employment Hero Website: https://employmenthero.com/

We talked to master content creator and investor Sahil Bloom. Sahil had a meteoric rise over 2020-2021, accumulating more than 550k twitter followers and 70k followers on his Substack, as he became extremely well known in the business world for his profound insights. 

Whilst we talked with him about content creation and investing, we also dived into a bunch of different topics such as vulnerabilities, relationships, mediating your ego and prioritising in your 20s. 

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