Startup Theatre Podcast

In this episode, we chat with Julie Reddish. Julie is the Head of People and Culture at Optimal Workshop and was formerly the happiness engineer at Xero.  She has traveled throughout the world leading programmes that transform people’s lives and now she empowers teams of tech humans as they navigate moving from start-up to scale-up.  Julie is highly invested in growing people.  She is their champi...

In this episode, we talk with Andrew Tokeley who helps successful NZ businesses build high-performance product leadership teams. Tokes talks about what product is, how product leaders can work closely with the business, and understanding how to develop your product strategy alongside the business strategy.  His name is Andrew Tokeley but most people call him Tokes.   Tokes founded his co...

In this episode, we talk with Kristen Lunman .  For as long as she can remember, Kristen wanted to challenge the status quo, leading her to circles of like-minded entrepreneurs. Those that seek to deliver a vision of a different world. Her superpowers tend to lean in the area of growth and leadership. Until last year, it was at Hatch and more recently a new venture called Powrsuit .  Pow...

In this episode, we talk with Ben Pujji who is the CEO of Atomic.io a SaaS platform that helps companies engage their customers more effectively inside their apps.  Ben's early career was in banking, creative agencies, and government, before joining Atomic in 2015. In 2018 Ben stepped into the CEO's shoes, pivoting Atomic to focus on its new Action Card platform. Atomic helps businesses inclu...

In this episode, we chat with Diana Minnée who is a Chief Operating Officer for startups. She helps us to understand what a COO does in a startup and how she is able to pattern match across a lot of verticals to help support an Exec team. Diana founded The BizOps Agency to help startups scale. She and her BizOps Agents help organisations fill the gaps for the short term or long term. Previously as...

Mike Dawes founded and runs the IT Heavy Hitter s charity boxing match, which has raised over $600k for charity. All proceeds from his events next year go to Voices of Hope . Mike is not usually one to put himself into the spotlight and would rather profile his charities. Mike is not usually one to put himself into the spotlight and would rather profile his charities. But as a good mate of Mike's,...

In this episode on the We F*@KIN love podcast, we speak with Auriga Martin, a positive force in nature the world needs more of. Auriga is an American who moved to New Zealand and has filled her cup with her two passions, the arts, and SaaS product. Auriga is ever-focused on moving the needle and bringing beneficial and lasting change.  Having been one of the founding first ten employees at tech ed...

In this episode on the We F*@KIN love podcast, we speak with Simon Small who we literally pulled off the street to join us on the podcast. Simon was one of the OG SaaS sales leaders who found his way into a startup by meditating. Simon has a background in the Arts & Media and started Livestreaming and created three shows: SaaS on the Street is my chance to connect with the brightest SaaS Found...

In this episode on the We F*@KIN love podcast, we speak with Alicia McKay who is very well-known globally for her No-bullshit approach to leadership training and strategy execution. Alicia has been in strategy for all of her career - building business cases for infrastructure investment, developing long-term plans for corporates and communities, designing organisational transformation, and support...

In this episode on the We F*@KIN love podcast, we speak with Serge van Dam who is very well-known in the NZ SaaS community. Serge van Dam is an active Investor / Director of going-global Kiwi software / SaaS companies, including Montoux, Re-Leased, Tourwriter, Raygun, and Cogo.   Originally an Organisational Psychologist, Serge is most interested in growth strategies and has expertise in...