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Vatsal have served as a product and engineering executive in creating operating systems, video games, virtual reality, and cloud services for the consumer (B2C) and businesses (B2B) customers at companies such as Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Zynga. The products he has created are used by billions of customers and have cumulatively generated 10s of billions of USD value. Learn how Vatsal entered the...

This video covers the top 10 questions that I've received from aspiring founders looking to build their first company and how to do it properly. Building a company is hard stuff so these questions are aimed at helping entrepreneurs better understand what's required in building a business. #business #entrepreneurship #mindset --------------------------------- TIMESTAMPS: ---------------------------...

Jennifer is the CEO of Cultivating Leadership. She blends deep theoretical knowledge with a driving quest for practical ways to make leaders’ lives better. She speaks about leadership and complexity, coaches executives and executive teams, designs and teaches leadership programs.  In this episode, expect to learn the mental models of highly effective leaders, why imposter syndrome is good thing, t...

Danny is a data scientist, consultant, and educator with over 12 years of experience. Danny runs his Data With Danny education platform where he teaches fundamental data skills to over 3,000 students. He is a LinkedIn Top Voice, and a technical author and instructor at O’Reilly Media and LinkedIn Learning. In this episode expect to learn why data is becoming the new oil, the fundamentals of data s...

Jessica is an award winning executive, advisor and board director with experience leading product, growth and insights in +1bn valued tech companies. With a passion for learning and an entrepreneurial spirit, Jessica has grown successful teams across agencies (partnering with Toyota, Slack, Visa), startup (Finch) and scale up (Linktree) as well as driving change for women in tech as MD of Girls in...

Nazneen is a Research Lead at HuggingFace, a startup with a mission to democratize ML, leading the LLMs trained using RLHF direction. Before HF, she worked at Salesforce Research where she led a team of researchers focused on building robust natural language generation systems based on LLMs. Her expertise lies in training and evaluating LLMs, focusing on interpretability, robustness, factuality, a...

Liam Bolling is a Product Manager at Google (Maps). Previously, he co-founded the early version of Microsoft Viva as a Program Manager at Microsoft. Liam is also an active advisor, angel investor, and YouTuber where he teaches on product management and insights.  In this episode, expect to learn about why product managers at Google are different, what to expect out of a product manager interview,...

Abby is a social innovation leader and career development expert. She has served as President of the Gap Foundation and co-founded the employee resource group for working parents at Gap Inc. She's a sought-after speaker and workshop leader on the topic of how to make money and love decisions Learn about why making hard decisions is difficult, especially when it involves love and money, how to over...

Dean is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney, where he also is a director of the Sydney Centre for Time. Specializing in quantum gravity, he has written several books in this area, including A Brief History of String Theory: From Dual Models to M-Theory , and Covered in Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity, 1916-1956 . Other recent books includ...

Jacky Khuu was an early team member of DoorDash’s white-label delivery business in Australia. His passion for entrepreneurship led him to most recently co-founding Munchcart (now dissolved), a network of dark kitchens that helped restaurants expand into new areas without any rent or labour. The global logistics food delivery space has gone through massive reform over the past year with failed busi...

Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public. In this episode, expect to learn about why indie hacking has become so popular, what it means to be a bootstrapped founder, what “building in public” is all about, being an introverted founder, the ups and downs of building your own business, how to properly build a social media foll...

Neil Durrant is an Adjunct Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Macquarie University, with a research interest in applied ethics, specializing in Nietzsche studies, friendship and practical philosophy. Does Stoicism have a problem? Stoicism has been around for thousands of years, but does it still have a place in modern society? The study of Nietzsche might have some answers to these questions....

Adam Schwab is the co-founder and CEO of Luxury Escapes. The largest luxury travel platform in Australia and they are growing like crazy. In this episode, we talk about Adam's early days and how the companies he built leaped frog him into what Luxury Escapes is today and the lessons learned along the way. We talk about exactly how the LE model works and why COVID was such a blessing in disguise fo...

Anthony Vicino is the founder of Invictus Capital and a multi-business creator and owner. He truly has a rags-to-riches story and in doing so has built very powerful and effective mental models, methods, systems, and processes that have contributed to his success. In this episode, we talk about his journey from being $80,000 in debt to building multiple 7-figure businesses, but more interestingly...

Francisco Vieria Mendes is the COO and Co-founder of Yerbo; a HR platform focused on building solutions that improve the well-being of organizations around mental health, productivity, culture, and happiness in the workplace.  In this episode, we talk extensively about mental health and burnout especially in tech – what it actually means for us, ways we can identify if we’re suffering from burnout...

Mark is currently Chairman and co-founder of Strava.  He co-founded the company in 2009 with Michael Horvath.  The firm is headquartered in San Francisco and supports customers in over 180 countries.  In this episode, we discuss Strava’s origin story and how it got its name, we talk about the early days of the company and learn about their interesting growth strategy and how they got their first c...

Ken Miller is the CTO and co-founder of Fathom; a AI podcasting platform focused on disrupting this ever growing space and why this is going to change the way we produce and consume content forever.  In this episode, we discuss how artificial intelligence is impacting society. We discuss AI’s exponential progress, especially around chatGPT, the intersection of AI and podcasting, Fathom’s new Podiu...

Mia Nguyen is the Operating Principal at Four Cities Capital , an early-stage venture capital fund investing in Seed & Series A companies. In this episode, we discuss the strategies for emerging fund managers to build a venture fund. This includes advice on sourcing and connecting with Limited Partners (LPs), managing pipelines, what materials to prepare for LPs, and the importance of understandin...

In this episode, I talk about four key tips you can use to identify if a startup is worth investing in — these include, the Founders, Problem, Solution, and Timing (the FPTS method). We go into each tip in-depth and discuss why they’re important in evaluating a startup and its potential for success. PODCAST: — Podcast Website: http://barrywinata.com/podcast   Pod Link: https://pod.link/prompt   Ap...

VAPAR is disrupting an $88 BILLION industry. In this episode, I speak with CTO and Co-founder of VAPAR; Michelle Aguilar on their origin story, what they’re building, and why it’s important. We also touch on this important disruption in such a traditional industry, and why change is needed especially using technology that can help decrease costs, reduce time and automate everything. https://vapar....

In this episode, I showcase some tips and tricks founders (and non-founders) can use to reach out (cold) to others i.e. investors, customers, clients etc. that are effective. These tips include: medium, length, content, hype and a two-way street. I also demonstrate how to cold contact an investor through an example email, and how others can use this template for their own purposes. PODCAST: ******...

Kendrick Nguyen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Republic — a crowd equity investing platform that is championing the retail revolution so that everyone can become an angel investor. Ken talks about why he left AngelList to build Republic and what drives his mission to democratize investing for the private markets. He also provides insights and anecdotes into some of the most notable investments acros...

Simon Olson is an early-stage VC but also the founder and General Partner of XY Ventures; a Swedish based VC firm that he founded from the ground the up to invest in early-stage startups with ties to Silicon Valley. In this episode, you'll get to learn about his journey of getting into VC, his secrets, how he raised his own fund completely from scratch and his lessons and tips for anyone intereste...

Tim Fung is CEO and Co-founder of Airtasker - the Australian founded company that provides an online and mobile marketplace enabling users to outsource their everyday tasks; whether it be cleaning your house, furniture assembly, house repairs, helping with your resume, and much more Founded in 2012, Tim has been instrumental in building his company from literally his apartment to a new publicly li...

Peter Bakker is the CEO and Co-Founder of Unhedged, an early-stage company developing a platform to place the power of the big banks into the hands of everyday investors using advanced algorithms. This is a disruptive space and will no doubt change the game for retail traders and investors. EPISODE: ***************** https://unhedged.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbakker/ This is a public epi...