Scale Up

You've definitely heard the stories about visionary entrepreneurs and how they built their companies to incredible heights. But behind these icons of business, there's a story which often goes untold ... the story of the mentorship that helped them get there. Level Up is a show about the personal growth of some great Australian entrepreneurs and start-ups, and the mentors who've helped them along the way.

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Envato's capacity to create new products is relentless.

They don't all work but there's one product that's tipped to be a very large part of the business in the coming years. 

Even in the early days of the company it had created not one but three marketplaces.

This is the final episode of the third season. 

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Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

GhostPatrol website / Instagram

Medium: Fair revenue share for independent designers, Xavier Russo

Medium: How To Make Streaming Royalties Fair(er), Sharky Laguana

LaunchVic: a review of Melbourne's Digital Marketplace

McKinsey: The three horizons of growth

All the sounds and music in this season of Scale Up are from Envato Elements.

Credits

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode in no particular order.

Ghostpatrol AKA David Booth

Collis Ta'eed

James Ross

Prof Michael Vitale

Monica McCormick

Xavier Russo

Julian Doherty

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Envato is strangely unencumbered by external deadlines, forces, companies, weather, politics and many other things that traditional businesses might be. 

In the head office on King Street there’s a peculiar but positive sense of calm that exists as soon as you swipe into the building.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

Credits

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode in no particular order

Lindsay Andrew

Matthew Cox

James Giroux

Collis Ta-eed

Nick Rasmussen

Julian Doherty

Gus Gollings

James Ross

Monica McCormick

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You've never heard of a company profit share like this.

Wanting to take a more systematic approach to how the company shares its profit the team at the top gets a small team in HR together to keep a secret and get busy.

What they do will only ever and can only ever happen once at Envato.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

Credits

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode in no particular order

Mary-Anne Cosgrove

Peter Rhoades

Collis Ta-eed

Amber Johnson

Nick Rasmussen

Julian Doherty

Briany Kalms

Kelly Dent

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Being a huge website makes you a big target for people with bad intentions.

And when they decide to act it can often come in the form of a distributed denial of service attack - a DDOS attack.

What happens when Envato's targeted and how do they respond?

Whoever's on call get's to work quickly.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

Credits

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode

Mario Visic

Lindsay Andrew

James Ross

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"When the community succeeds, we succeed"

One of the the values (see last episode) and emblematic of the focus Envato retains on its treasured and longtime community of authors.

Building the global community has been a focus from the start.

It is why Envato can keep diversifying, scaling and increasing the huge amount of revenue that flows through it to the community.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

Credits

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode

Collis Ta'eed

Cyan Ta'eed

Kate McInnes

Mario Visic

James Giroux

Brett Elliott

Josh Janssen

Julian Doherty

Nick Rasmussen

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In a Friday meeting Collis Ta'eed's phone starts buzzing. Someone appears at the window.

Then half the executive team are waiting outside.

Something's going on.

It's one thing to have values, it's another to stand by them even if it negatively affects the business.

When push came to shove Envato's made those choices.

Almost more than any other, "Values" is the word people at Envato used when describing the company.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

Credits

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode

Collis Ta'eed

Jo Miller

Kate McInnes

Mary-Anne Cosgrove

Matthew Cox

Cyan Ta'eed

Paul Moran

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Envato has never taken outside investment. For a tech company if this size that’s a very rare feat.

While many start ups chase venture capital to aid growth, validation and scale, Envato has been building over a decade uninfluenced by investors looking for an exit.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

CREDITS

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode

Cyan Ta'eed

Gus Gollings

Brett Elliott

Xavier Russo

Kate Kendall

Collis Ta'eed

Music in this episode was supplied through Envato Elements.

Experimental Piano Flickering Lights

Relaxin' Jazz Loop

Inspirational Orchestra

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What's it like to join Envato?

The process from the outside to inside reveals some telling characteristics of Envato’s culture and values.

People from around the world are landing in Melbourne to start work on King Street.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org.

CREDITS

Hosted by Courtney Carthy

Thanks to the following people in this episode

Nick Rasmussen

Amber Johnson

Lindsay Andrew

Gus Gollings

Annie Denton

Mario Visic

Jay Hyett

Adam Noonan

Michelle Ridsdale

Collis Ta'eed

Xavier Russo

Ben Leong

Mario Cuba

Music in this episode was supplied through Envato Elements.

Tracks included; 

Experimental Piano Flickering Lights

Dreamy

Big Show Opener

Relaxin' Jazz Loop

Fun Indie Pop Adventure

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This season we look into a Victorian company that's best described as a spaceship.

Experiencing Envato from within makes the world outside that's not on either side of the marketplace almost irrelevant.

Though it's in Envato's powerful and human focused values that keep it familiar, give it a conscience and inspire those who work for or with the incredibly successful digital marketplace.

Actually it's many marketplaces. And more.

Over 50 interviews with employees of all levels, past and present, reveal what a lightning strike this company is and how it'll have a hand in so much of what we see, hear, watch and experience online.

Scale Up is a podcast by LaunchVic, Victoria's startup ecosystem development agency.

For more information on the series or anything happening in Victoria's startup scene visit launchvic.org

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