The Sachin and Adam Show

This week we sat down with each other to reflect on our lives and discuss some of the topics we are currently interested in. We spoke about our favourite  guests on the podcasts, how we’ve both developed over the last few years, NFTs, decentralisation and new technologies. We then turned to discussing our future goals, learnings from university and how we want to be living in our 20s. This ep...

Phil Moffitt was a partner at Goldman Sachs for 20 years before starting the impact investment firm, Beckon Capital. In this episode we discussed Phil’s upbringing and his journey to the biggest prize on Wall Street. We then dived deep into his study of psychology and his reasons for co-founding Beckon Capital and the firms philosophy, diving deep into 'impact 3.0'. We finished off discussing his...

Harry Guinness is CEO and co-founder of Australia's newest think tank, the Blueprint Institute. The Blueprint Institute "exists to inspire reform with bold ideas, honest conversations and evidence-based research".  Before starting Blueprint, Harry had a wide-ranging career that saw him playing professional rugby for the Brumbies, studying at Oxford, working in the Attorney General's office fo...

Peter Corbett is a partner at Deloitte, the Sydney head of Monitor Deloitte and is Deloitte's National Telecommunications Sector Leader. He's been advising companies on strategic business decisions at Deloitte for over 15 years. Before that he worked at Macquarie Bank and started a number of companies.  We talked to Peter about why strategy is important in business and how to think strategica...

This week we sat down with the ever inspiring Rohit Bhargava. Rohit’s podcast ‘The Startup Playbook’ is ranked number 3 on iTunes and he has interviewed the likes of Malcom Turnbull and Cal Henderson (co-founder Slack). We spoke to Rohit about his experiences with failure, avoiding a linear career path, his learnings from guests and his passions for business. Rohit has had the opportunity to aggre...

Peter Bruce-Clark is a partner at the venture capital firm Social Impact Capital. Social Impact Capital specialises in impact investing, which are investments that achieve strong financial returns whilst also making social impact in the domains of energy, water, food, health, environment, education, housing, access to capital, and social justice. He also makes angel investments and has previously...

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with a visionary that well and truely blew us away, Jack Manning Bancroft. Jack is the founder of AIME, an award-winning social movement that uses mentoring and imagination to unlock the potential of marginalised youth to create a fairer world. Jack has been working on AIME for the last 16 years and in that time created the largest uni student voluntee...

This week's guest was Michael Trail, the co-founder of Macquarie Group's private equity business, Macquarie Direct Investment, and was also the founding CEO of Social Ventures Australia (SVA).   Currently Michael spends his time as Executive Director at For Purpose Investment Partners, is the Chair of the Paul Ramsey Foundation and is a director at multiple organisations such as Sunsuper, MH...

This week we sat down with one of Australia’s startup icons, Airtasker founder and CEO Tim Fung. Most of you will know Airtasker, a platform where you can connect with experts to get any job done. We discussed when Tim decided to leave the corporate world, the origins of Airtasker, what it means to be a good ‘executor’ and technology trends. You are in for an amazing episode. Books mentioned by Ti...

This week we sat down with Sean Stuart, author of ‘The Curious Ape’, a book that explores the 25 most powerful ideas on the Joe Rogan Podcast. In true Rogan fashion we had a free flowing conversation about everything from our versions of a utopia, tribes, the war on drugs to mental health. Sean also studies science/law at USYD and interns at the venture capital firm Blackbird. Happy 2021 and enjoy...

This week we sat down with the incredible Michael O’Leary to talk about his career and all things impact investing. We discussed the current downfalls in capitalism before considering what the average citizen can do to make a difference. Michael has studied at both Harvard and Stanford and was one of the founding members of Bain Double Impact (the firms social impact arm). Michael has also written...

This episode features Adam Milgrom who is a partner at the Giant Leap Fund, which is Australia's first venture capital fund that is 100% dedicated to investing in impact startups. Predominantly the company targets businesses that focus on sustainable living, health & wellbeing and empowering people. Adam is also a board director at Future Super and Your Grocer.  We talked to Adam about hi...

Philip Chan has had a phenomenal career spread across human rights law, academia, being a policy advisor and working in the corporate sector. He is currently the Academic Dean of Wesley College and a lecturer of human rights law at Western Sydney University. Previously he worked as an advisor at the UN, was a senior consultant in human rights consulting at KPMG, worked in human rights law for one...

This week we got to chat with the incredible Evan Wong, founder of Checkbox. At just 25 Evan has started two successful companies and was recently enacted as a Forbes Top 30 under 30 in the Enterprise Technology section. In this episode we dived deep into how Evan suggests anyone finds their purpose, his plans to turn Checkbox into a $1B company and the pressures of entering a 'prestigious' career...

This week we talked to David Lu who is a partner at 256 Capital Partners and Virgil Capital, which are both investment firms which specialise in cryptocurrency assets. David became partner at those firms just a few years after finishing his Bachelor of Law/Commerce degree at UNSW. At university he co-founded a venture capital firm called Textbook Ventures and also worked at a number of other VC's...

This week we dived into the world of Angel Investing and Venture Capital with local legend Les Szekely. Les is the son of refugees and believes that he had business in his blood from a young age, selling clothes at Paddy's Market. Fast forward a few years and Les was a partner at Deloitte and began angel investing, investing in HotelClub and SiteMinder, the later which is now worth over $1B. Les i...

This episode features John Treadgold who is a communications and strategy consultant who works with major companies and governments to pursue greater sustainability in their investments. In his career he has worked with the UN, The World Bank and many fund managers. John also has a podcast called 'Good Future' where he interviews business leaders in sustainability, impact investing and social ente...

This week we were lucky enough to chat to the amazing Lily Wu who is the founder of Austern international and the Head of Programs at NewCampus. Lily has lived an incredibly colourful life that ranges from starting a 6-figure business in high school to being a delegate at Harvard Project of Asian International Relations. We spoke about how she started two incredibly successful businesses, chooses...

This week we spoke to Kat Dunn who has had an amazing and diverse career. Kat started out in the corporate world, first working for top law firm Clayton Utz and then finding her way to working for an investment firm. After many years in corporate she was able to engage in her passion for social business when she became CEO of Grameen Bank Australia in 2018. After finishing up at Grameen she starte...

“Marc was the most capable networker I have ever met, he could parachute into any developing country and within 24h arrange a meeting with the president” - Bill Browder, Red NoticeAt 20 years old Marc was the youngest person to run a statewide political campaign in the US, when he headed Ronald Reagan’s Pennsylvania campaign for his 1980 presidential election. He founded one of the first investmen...

This week we talked to Sam Refshauge who has had an incredibly interesting career spanning roles in the for-purpose and not-for-profit sector. We talked to Sam about his journey from working for the Indonesian Rugby team, to being a general manager at AIME mentoring to becoming CEO of Batyr, the mental health organisation, in his late 20s.  1:00 Living in Jakarta working as Indonesia’s rugby coach...

This week we sat down with the extremely talented Elisa Lillicrap. At the age of 21 she has interned for a Y Combinator company, won the Hult Prize in the Asia region, completed the ASES course at Stanford and co-founded a startup Logieq. We spoke up her experiences in Silicon Valley, asked her what businesses the world needs now and discussed if innovation can sometimes go too far.

This week we interview Peter Stevens who is the founder of financial newsletter 'Insufficient Capital'. Peter is a keen investor who writes about his different trades and investing beliefs on a regular basis. He also studies Commerce/Engineering. Insufficient Capital Website: https://insufficientcapital.com/Insufficient Capital Twitter: https://twitter.com/insufficientcap 2:16 Why Peter is interes...

This was an incredible episode where we got to chat with Michael Batko, the CEO of Startmate. We spoke about his journey from the corporates to startups, most impressive founders his met, his systems of thinking and as always his advice to university students. Highly recommend this episode to anyone that's interested in startups, productivity or confused about their direction. Show notesMichaels B...

This week we tried something a little different. Join us for a drink as we ask each-other a couple of spontaneous questions and get chatting about geo political tensions, reflections on university and our political views.