The Sachin and Adam Show

This week we interviewed the brilliant and passionate entrepreneur Ronni Kahn. Through her food waste charity Ozharvest, she has provided over 200 million meals to people in need, all from food that would have otherwise have been thrown out.    She has a remarkable story that took her South Africa to Israel to starting a global organisation.   We chatted to her about her upbringing,...

This week we interviewed Duncan Anderson, the founder of edtech startup Edrolo. Edrolo is out to change the way that students learn in the classroom. Duncan is an inspirational figure and an incredibly brilliant figure. He's constantly learning about himself, the world and provides so much wisdom to young people about how they can think more deliberately about their career and impact.  We dis...

Paul is one of our favourite guests we’ve ever interviewed. Apart from saying we were his favourite podcast he was humble and shared so much knowledge. We discussed his drivers, building Seek, Square Pegs story and how he finds balance. Favourite Book: Sapiens- Yuval Noah Harari Podcast: Masters of Scale- Reid Hoffman Influential figure you’ve never met: Nelson Mandela Investment that got away: Li...

This week Adam and I sat down in our new studio to have a one on one conversation about life. We got into career updates, goals for the future, balancing our chaotic lives and we played the empathy game live. Enjoy!

Ben Thompson is the business mastermind between many amazing companies including the unicorn Employment Hero. We got into his origin story, the birth of Employment Hero, key business learnings, the future of work, downturn in tech markets and advice for young people. This isn’t an episode you want to miss. Employment Hero Website: https://employmenthero.com/

We talked to master content creator and investor Sahil Bloom. Sahil had a meteoric rise over 2020-2021, accumulating more than 550k twitter followers and 70k followers on his Substack, as he became extremely well known in the business world for his profound insights.  Whilst we talked with him about content creation and investing, we also dived into a bunch of different topics such as vulnera...

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with Blackbird Partner Niki Scevak. Niki is a thinker that absolutely blew us away. In this episode we discussed how the study of history and psychology can improve your investing, his wisdom to his 23 year old self, career frameworks and how he plans to build Blackbird into one of the best firms in the world.   Shownotes: Book: Poor Charlies Alma...

Disclaimer: Airtree is one of Australia's biggest VC funds, not crypto funds, as was mistakenly said in the introduction. This week we talked with John Henderson, a partner at Airtree Ventures which is a leading Australian venture capital firm. John acts as the lead in Airtree's crypto and web3 investments and he's previously been an entrepreneur, operator, consultant and lawyer. Just recently Air...

Sir Ronald Cohen is known as 'the father of British venture capital' and the 'father of impact investment'. He brought venture capital to the UK through his firm Apax Partners, which went on to control over $50 billion of assets and was one of the earliest investors in Apple. Then at the age of 60 he wanted to focus more on social issues so he pioneered impact investing throughout the world by par...

This week we had the pleasure of talking to one of Australia’s top artists Danielle Weber, whose painted portraits of famous people around the world and has accumulated over 200k instagram followers. We wish we were cool enough to be artists and her perspective to life blew us away. We dived into Danielle’s experience working with people like Dwayne Johnson, Danielle’s creative process and what it...

This week our good friend Max Marchione interviewed us in a new podcast format called 'Sidetracked with Max'. This series of conversations is to present a more personal side of us, whilst having fun and engaging chats about topics we're passionate about.  This episode we chatted about self-awareness, confidence, digital identities, how to predict the future, exponential technologies and crypt...

This week we had the absolute honour of chatting to the CEO of Deloitte, Adam Powick. We spoke about Adams working class background, how he made career decisions and his lessons in leadership. What’s remarkable about Adam is his ability to balance authenticity and character with the more serious nature of leadership and we dived into how this developed. This episode is loaded with gems on career a...

This week we talked to Sam Wong who is a partner at Blackbird Ventures, one of Australia’s most successful venture capital firms. In today’s episode we talked about investing ethically, how she makes investment decisions, the trends in startups she finds most exciting and advice for young people who are interested in technology. Before entering VC, Sam was a lawyer for Minter Ellison, worked in pr...

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with the visionary that is Fred Schebesta. Fred is the founder of Finder, a crypto titan and the author of ‘Go Live! 10 Principles to Launch a Global Empire’. We went deep with Fred discussing human behaviour, space, how to find great ideas, the Metaverse and living a better life. Get ready for some conversations that will blow your mind! Show notes Fr...

This week we interviewed African entrepreneur Kaivan Sattar. Kaivan started the digital bank, Asaak, which lends to people in Uganda who previously could not access credit. They have grown dramatically over the past year and are now doing over $1 million US in revenue per year.  We dived deep into the development prospects of Africa, Kaivan's founding story and the vision he has for Asaak.&nb...

This week we had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Mark Carnegie, one of Australia’s top business titans. Mark was trained on Wall Street by James Wolfensohn and started the investment bank Carnegie, Wylie & Co. Mark then became the CEO of Lazard Australia and later on started M.H.Carnegie & Co, where he works today. We spoke to Mark about his career, what young people should be worki...

This week we had a 1 on 1 together and chatted about what we've been doing recently, the direction the Sachin and Adam Show is taking, our recent Angel Investment into a Fintech company, and our life in lockdown. Enjoy! 0:26 Introduction 2:50 What we’ve been doing 8:05 Why we’re passionate about technology and venture capital & what we’re building 24:46 Our angel investment into Ugandan Fintec...

We had the pleasure of sitting down with James Alexander, one of the youngest people to launch a venture capital fund in Australia. James is a technologist at heart and after studying computer science co-founded one of the first University startup accelerators, Incubate, where he has helped 100+ startups launch their ideas. What you will learn from this episode How James developed his love of tech...

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with the amazing Moses Lo. Moses studied at UNSW and begun his career as a management consultant at BCG before moving to Silicon Valley to pursue entrepreneurship. After completing an MBA from Berkeley, Moses was selected for Y Combinator (YC) where he started his  FinTech company, Xendit. We dived deep into Moses’s upbringing, why he chose manage...

2 years ago when we accidentally started this podcast we joked that if there was one person in the world we could talk to, it would be the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull. Through a lot of persistence and luck, 60 episodes later we got to meet our hero. We spoke to Malcolm about the key experiences that defined him as a person, how he was able to build relationships with the mos...

This week we interviewed Robbie Robertson, who is Sydney Leader of Deloitte Digital, Deloitte's digital consultancy arm. Coming from a design background, Robbie is fascinated about the interaction of design principles, sensory experiences and creating new products.    We talked to him about how he perceives design, what design consulting looks like and the principles for building the fut...

Rowan Kunz is the founder of education business Art of Smart, which does tutoring and mentoring for high-school students. Art of Smart has helped over 6,000 students with their high-school education, their transition to university and with career advice. Rowan was Australia's Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019. Previously, he also founded and sold two other educational businesses. Row...

This week we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with the most energetic man we’ve ever met, Muhan Zhang. Muhan was the first employee on Andrew Yangs presidential campaign, started a business out of college and currently runs the angel investing community, ’Startup Investing for All’. We went deep into the journey of a presidential campaign, Andrew Yangs values, the relationship with techno...

Matt Allen is the founder of Tractor Ventures, a revenue based financing company that provides an alternative to traditional venture capital for technology startups. He is also a prolific angel investor, having invested in over a dozen startups and has achieved an IRR of over 50%. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services, co-founded a number of companies and spent his early days working in soft...

Kirstin Hunter is a co-founder of the super company Future Super, which manages over $900m of assets. Future Super focuses on creating a world without climate change and inequality, so they invest their assets into sustainable companies and ignore fossil fuels and harmful companies. Before Future Super she worked in management consulting at Bain & Co for six years and was also a solicitor at F...