Victor is a Sales Development Team Lead at Salesforce, previously working in multiple roles in finance - including a role at boutique investment banking firm Barclay Pearce Capital and then an equity research and sales role at wealth manager Shaw and Partners. In his relatively short time at Salesforce, Victor holds numerous accolades - including being their Sales Development MVP of the Year (2022-23).

Our chat covers a rewardingly broad swathe of topics, including some fantastic advice on how to build a meaningful network around you, optimising your role progression and education to learn as much as possible, and the structural differences between the seemingly opposite worlds of tech and finance.

A special shoutout to his Instagram page simplifying key bits of Australian financial news for everyone, @pickandscrollnews!

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Lucy is a Business Strategy Analyst at Telstra InfraCo, having commenced her graduate career in Telstra's graduate program almost three years ago. She moved from Sydney to study Economics and Finance at the University of Melbourne, during which she served as President of the Melbourne Microfinance Initiative, one of the university's largest and most well-respected student-run societies.

Our conversation covers crucial advice on how graduates should never undervalue their worth and how they should approach gaining experience and the graduate application process, in addition to how she has approached finding a role that aligns with her desire to build her work around her interests and personal life, rather than 'living to work'.

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Abhi is one of Australia's most up and coming figures in the venture capital ecosystem, currently an Investment Associate at Rampersand, known for its investments in Spaceship, Assembly Payments and Cake Equity. He brings experience from another well-respected venture capital firm, Folklore Ventures, and joined Cambridge Associates as an Investment Analyst after graduating from his Bachelor of Applied Finance from Macquarie University. Abhi also co-founded DAO Under and is a Fellow at Afterwork Ventures.

Our conversation delves deep into the intricacies of what venture capital investors do day-in day-out, what drove Abhi to be interested in the world of tech and VC and why founding and investing in startups isn't all roses.

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Jeffrey is an Associate Product Development Manager at one of Australia's hottest startups, Lyka Pet Food. He brings experience Deloitte Digital in their Strategy and Design team, and co-founded a podcast of his very own - 'As I Am', aimed at bringing forward an honest conversation about Asian identities in the West.

Our conversation covers his perspective on how to expand your network by garnering authentic relationships with those around you, and why you don't necessarily have to have the 'end purpose' of your career figured out when you're just starting out.

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Calvin Chan is a Director and Auctioneer at one of the country's leading real estate agencies, Buxton Real Estate Group. During his six years with the Group, he has attained numerous accolades - chief amongst them being his ~$200m sales record in 2021 being second in the state amongst all real estate agents under 35 (Source: Herald Sun).

In this episode, we hear about Calvin's intriguing story of how he went from failing seven units at university, to going to China to find interesting work, and finally ending up in the restless world of real estate, whilst still sparing time for his lovely wife and two kids. His conversation gives a fresh take on the emphasis on doing what you love and balancing ambition and a rigorous work ethic, with family and life outside of work.

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Eezu is a Product Manager at climatech startup Cecil. Amongst her impressive list of roles and achievements, she founded an award winning social enterprise Chicken Soup, which helps ESL students with their English learning journey. She also has experience in impact investing, an early stage fintech and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) roles at WooliesX.

Our chat covers how Eezu grew the courage to evolve from a shy high school student afraid of public speaking, the challenging decisions she has made when choosing whether to work in a corporate or startup, and her longer term career aspiration to work in the climate space.

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Jackson is the CEO of Caleb & Brown, one of Australia (and the world's) most well-respected cryptocurrency brokerages for high to ultra-high net worth clients. Since joining the firm as its first employee and COO in 2017 shortly after it was founded, almost three years on Jackson was promoted to CEO, where he is now in charge of the brokerage that serves more than 20,000 clients in 100 countries, producing over $30m a year in profit (Source: AFR).

Our chat follows Jackson's fascinating journey from his love of video games, to being an early Bitcoin investor, to the daunting times of being CEO of a crypto brokerage during Bitcoin's most unpredictable crashes. His experience teaches us the importance of following our passions and how to keep our eyes open for undervalued opportunities.

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Today's episode features Ed, currently a Senior Strategy Manager at Airwallex, one of Australia's largest and fastest growing fintechs. He started his career at Bain - one of the world's leading management consultancies, and will soon also leave Airwallex to start his MBA at Harvard Business School.

Being the first 'experienced' grad featured on our podcast, our chat features deep insight into comparing the work-life balances of consulting and working in a high-growth startup, what it was like applying as an experienced hire, and picking which risks to take, and when.

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Today's conversation features Lauren Song, a Graduate Analyst at the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra, the government's lead economic advisor. During our chat, we talk about her journey in studying and working in economics which began with her wanting to become a history teacher, and working in a challenging policy role where most others have far more qualifications than her.

If you're interested in working in public policy or are just curious about what it's like to move into a new career that you had no idea you wanted to do, be sure to listen!

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For our second episode, we were lucky to be joined by Cara, the Co-Founder and CEO of Gen Z fitness app Steppen, which has secured more than $2m (AUD) in funding in recent years. She's also completing her Bachelors of Science and Engineering at Monash University.

Our conversation involved a transparent discussion of Cara's failures personally and professionally, and the importance of recognising one's own privilege when giving advice to others. Whether the audience plans to found or go into the world of startups or not, they stand to gain so much from this raw and insightful discussion.

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