My guest for Ep150 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Co-founder & Partner at Blackbird Ventures, Rick Baker. Blackbird is one of, if not the leading Venture Capital Fund in Australia. Since launching in 2012, Blackbird has raised 4 funds for a combined committed capital of $1.24B with an astonishing net internal rate of […]

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My guest for Ep149 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Phil Morle, Partner of Main Sequence Ventures Phil started his career as a Theatre Director, before taking those skills into tech initially as CTO of file-sharing company, Kazaa before going on to Co-found the first tech incubator in Asia-Pacific, Pollenizer. He is now a Partner […]

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My guest for Ep148 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Co-founder & CEO of Qsic, Matt Elsley. Qsic leverages smart devices and other inputs such as music to drive changes in real-time consumer behaviour such as increasing their spend in retail stores. They have had a fascinating journey since launching in 2012, initially bootstrapping […]

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My guest for Ep147 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the General Partner of Tidal Ventures, Wendell Keuneman. Prior to Tidal, Wendell had over 20 years of deep operational experience including seeing 3 companies grow and scale from startups to successful exits. He was the Co-founder & CTO of Carbon Twelve (acquired by Broadsoft), CTO […]

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My guest for Ep146 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Co-founder & CEO of Barja, Federico Collarte. Baraja are the creators of the Spectrum Scan LiDAR technology, which simply put,  enables autonomous vehicles to “see” the road via lasers. Their pioneering technology completely rethinks environment scanning for autonomous vehicles, by exploiting the wavelength properties […]

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My guest for Ep145 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Co-founder & CEO of Deputy, Ashik Ahmed. Ashik launched Deputy in 2008, initially as the co-founder and CTO of the business.  He transitioned to the CEO role after Deputy raised there Series A funding round in 2017. Deputy has since gone on to being […]

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My guest for Ep144 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is the Co-founder & CEO of Code Pilot, David Lemphers. Dave has recently returned to Australia after spending 12 years in the US. He initially moved there to be an early member of the Windows Azure engineering team, before jumping out and launching his own startups. […]

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My guest for Episode 143 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Co-founder & Executive Chairman of AgriWebb, Justin Webb. Describing Justin as a successful serial entrepreneur, would not be doing justice to his background. He studied economics and applied mathematics at Harvard and did a post-graduate MBA at Oxford. He would then take his […]

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My guest for Ep142 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Founder & CEO of Simply Wall St., Al Bentley. Al started Simply Wall St (then known as Ninjavest) as a weekend project from a startup weekend competition back in 2013. Fast forward 8 years later and the company now has more than 3M users […]

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My guest for Ep141 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was the Co-founder & CEO of Linktree, Alex Zaccaria. Alex started his career in the music industry. With his brother Anthony, he co-founded Bolster, an agency that specialises in running digital and creative campaigns for music festivals and events. Through the agency, they identified a problem […]

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