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    The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

    Founded 6.5+ years ago by Vidit Agarwal, The High Flyers Podcast is a global top ranked show exploring the personal and professional journeys behind the most relatable role models shaping our world.

    Enjoy 275+ in-depth (and often rare) conversations with the world’s most influential and relatable role models in business, tech, finance, government and sport — going beyond the headlines to explore their life and work including their formative years, inflection points, industry insights, and how they think, lead and build.

    Episodes are listened to by CEOs, C-Suite Executives, Investors, Founders, and Government Leaders across Australia, USA, India, UK, Singapore, Canada and New Zealand.

    Alongside the podcast, we host an annual High Flyers Growth Summit in Sydney and San Francisco.

    This podcast is one of five products under our parent company, Curiosity Centre.

    We’re proud that more than 60% of our 275+ guests have trusted us for their first-ever public interview — or to go in-depth on their personal story for the first time. These include:

    Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister of Australia), Jason Collins (CEO, BlackRock, Asia Pacific), Brad Banducci (CEO, Woolworths), Keith Rabois (MD, Khosla Ventures), Michael Schneider (CEO, Bunnings), Elena Verna (Head of Growth, Lovable), David Haber (a16z Partner), David Schneider (Growth Fund Co-Lead Partner, Cotaue), Vandita Pant (CFO, BHP), Jodie Auster (Uber’s Global Head of Travel), Shiv Rao (CEO, Abridge), Ryan Beiermeister (Partner, Founders Fund), Jesse Zhag (CEO, Decagon), Rob Giglio (CCO, Canva), Gautam Chari (Head of Capital Commitments, Bank of America), Mel Silva (Managing Director, Google), Jean-Michel Limieux (CTO, Shopify and Atlassian), David Eckstein (CFO, Legora), Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta), John Haddock (CBO, Harvey), Mark Suster (Partner, Upfront Ventures), Niki Scevak (Partner, Blackbird), Craig Tiley (CEO, USA Tennis), Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel), Paul Bassat (Partner, Square Peg), Bowen Pan (Creator, Facebook Marketplace), Sam Sicilia (CIO, Hostplus), Jack Zhang (CEO, Airwallex), Tim Doyle (CEO, Eucalyptus), Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (CEO, Xero), Sanjeev Gandhi (CEO, Orica), Philip Green (Australia’s Ambassador to India), Vivek Bhatia (CEO, MUFG), Cristina Cordova (COO, Linear) and more.

    Engage with us via:

    Email: contact@curiositycentre.com

    Website: https://highflyerspodcast.com

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    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehighflyers

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    #125 Eytan Lenko (Rare Public Interview): Leading "Boundless" to make Australia a renewable energy superpower with Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-Founder of Atlassian) Apr 04, 2023
    Show notes

    Eytan Lenko is CEO at Boundless, on a mission to make Australia a renewable energy superpower by 2030, backed by Atlassian Co-founder, Mike Cannon Brookes. He previously was a software engineer and co-founded 2 companies including Outware Mobile.

    In this episode #125 w Eytan Lenko, learn about:

    Think of this in two parts, with the first half being a deep dive into Eytan’s life influences and career decisions and the second half, a deep dive into his love affair with climate solutions and technology, how it started first at Beyond Zero Emissions and more recently as CEO at Boundless, the non for profit to make Australia a renewable energy superpower by 2030, backed by Atlassian Co-founder, Mike Cannon Brookes.

    Learn about Eytan’s sunrise in Melbourne, his jewish heritage and the influences of his father, a chemical engineer turned entrepreneur and mum, a nurse turned a cosmetics sales extraordinaire, and his 3 sisters.

    We cover his career track especially how he went from software engineer to CEO, and founding 2 companies along the way and influences living in Japan, Darwin and the UK.

    I loved every minute of this, Eytan is candid, passionate, introspective and really lives up to our ethos of open direct access, and it’s a masterclass in the climate solutions today, how Eytan and his team are using the epic way of working and creating 100,000 jobs in the space today.

    It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    (Timestamps below)

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    02:16 - Where were you born and live now?

    02:33 - What was your first job and now?

    03:45 - High Flyer in Eytan’s life

    04:42 - WW2 and holocaust survivors

    05:47 - 3 younger sisters

    06:21 - Chemical engineer, programming and nursing

    11:03 - kibbutz and Israel

    13:01 - Friday night dinners with family

    16:55 - Academic learning vs learning through doing

    22:09 - Learning people leadership alongside technical skills

    26:23 - Engineering to CEO

    28:07 - How to go into a new company environment and drive alignment

    31:00 - Founder transferable skills

    33:48 - Learnings from Japan, Darwin and UK

    37:33 - First date with climate

    41:47 - Working in “epics”

    47:44 - Electric Vehicles and Transportation

    49:50 - Solving with government

    54:38 - Cost of capital to unlock innovation

    57:58 - 100,000 new jobs

    01:01:40 - Rapid fire

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    Investment Memo: How "Sumday" is enabling every business to measure their carbon impact Mar 28, 2023
    Show notes

    Featuring two of the co-founders, Jess Richmond & Lindsay Ellis, building from Tasmania for the world!

    Welcome to installment #23 of the Investment Memo series and episode #124 on the show.

    Submit this EOI for your company to be considered in future episodes of this special series!

    This exciting startup Sumday, is empowering accountants to re-define how the world measures and reports on environmental impact.

    In this conversation with 2 of the co-founders, Jess Richmond and Lindsay Ellis, based in Tasmania, Australia — learn about how their regional upbringing and global work experiences from Dubai to Norway influences their outlook on life today. This one’s candid, I asked them about how they first met which is quite the story, the magic moments that led to leaving their full time jobs and going all in on building Sumday, crucible moments including their first customer, their first product and engineer hires and transitioning from an accounting firm to a software platform.

    Be sure to have your notepad ready to understand what exactly is carbon accounting, what are scope 1,2 and 3 emissions. And in what can seem a crowded space, how have Sunday built their point of difference for investors, customers and employees to join them on this mission, as they bring the future today, building in Tasmania, Australia for the world.

    It’s time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    (Timestamps below)

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    Contact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve!

    Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show!

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    02:29 - Jess’s influences from Tasmania, Dubai, Melbourne

    03:55 - Linday’s influences from Perth, Norway, NZ

    05:04 - Most impactful career experiences to date

    10:37 - How Lindsay and Jess met

    13:35 - Playing in the arena to reduce emissions

    16:30 - Realising importance of analysis + storytelling

    17:37 - Decision to go all-in

    21:30 - Crucible moment this could be a large business

    24:00 - Funny stories of first senior hires

    25:35 - Generating significant traction

    28:30 - Transition from accounting firm to software platform

    31:33 - Defining carbon accounting and scope 1,2 and 3

    35:59 - Sunday’s points of difference

    42:32 - Building from Tasmania for the world

    44:30 - Upcoming job openings and skill sets in team


    #123 David Shein: Influences of South Africa + Australia, founding a billion $ company with young family & unpacking investing in the best at OIF Mar 21, 2023
    Show notes

    In this episode #123 w David Shein, learn about:

    David’s memories of growing up in South Africa during a divided time for the country, the influences of his father, a businessman and mother, a piano teacher — and his 2 older brothers.

    I asked Dave about his move to Australia in the 80’s or “gods country” as he calls it. You may be aware that he founded ComTech, Australia’s first unicorn but what you may not know is the story behind this, especially having a young family and being new in Australia.

    Dave was candid about his biggest regret, how’s he made career decisions, the meaning of success, how he’s managed to build a knack of understanding people quickly and maintaining high quality relationships with leaders in business, sport, politics and more.

    And I couldn’t release this episode without asking Dave some of the hard questions about his fund, OIF, best in class investor relationships, and his unfiltered advice to founders in this uncertain climate.

    It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    (Timestamps below)

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    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Contact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve!

    Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show!

    ***

    02:15 - Secrets to looking young

    02:52 - Where were you born and live now?

    03:18 - What was your first job and now?

    05:00 - High Flyer in David’s life

    07:25 - Growing up in South Africa during a divided country

    11:52 - Chartered Accounting family

    13:05 - 3 brothers

    15:42 - Moving to Australia in 1981

    19:34 - Founding ComTech with a young family

    22:01 - Sitting on a gold mine

    25:00 - Financial success

    27:22 - Career decision making hierarchy

    34:55 - VC as a career path today

    38:00 - Judging people in 5 minutes

    41:00 - Cultivating high quality relationships

    44:37 - OIF and US connection

    48:26 - Best in class investor relationships

    52:02 - Hall of fame

    54:10 - Advice to founders in today’s market

    57:40 - Balance between growth and profitability

    01:00:22 - Success, respect, reputation

    01:02:28 - Rapid fire


    #122 Sheel Mohnot: Living on $1 a day to learn his customers, Becoming one of the best seed FinTech investors, Metaverse weddings & more! Mar 07, 2023
    Show notes

    In this episode #122 w Sheel Mohnot, learn about:

    • 02:15 - Where were you born and live now?
    • 02:30 - What was your first job and now?
    • 03:20 - High Flyer in Sheel’s life
    • 04:12 - Indian family influences
    • 05:19 - High school impressions
    • 06:09 - Connecting with Indian / American identity
    • 06:51 - Grandfather’s inspiration
    • 07:44 - Multi dimensional career interests
    • 09:00 - A year living in India on a $1 a day
    • 10:18 - Internalising personal values and happiness
    • 11:10 - Most painful learning
    • 12:26 - Meeting his wife thanks to a dating show
    • 12:48 - Taco Bell metaverse wedding
    • 13:44 - Hanging out with AirBnB’s Brian Cheesky
    • 16:18 - Business opportunity in podcasts
    • 17:13 - Finance, Consulting, Healthcare
    • 18:02 - Mental models for learning
    • 18:57 - Crowdfunding as part of a VC round
    • 19:50 - State of FinTech today
    • 21:07 - Founding team vs product at seed stage
    • 21:50 - Transition from angel investor to running a fund
    • 22:45 - Questions to ask in first meeting with founder
    • 23:51 - Downside of saying no to founders
    • 24:42 - Hallmarks of a great enduring Venture firm
    • 26:44 - Managing both sides: the LP’s and Founders
    • 28:44 - 5 best hall of fame investors
    • 29:54 - Best underrated investors
    • 30:35 - most unexpected successful founders
    • 31:35 - Unpacking Flexport’s business model
    • 33:09 - Indian CEO’s
    • 34:58 - Building rapport cross cultures
    • 37:20 - FinTech in Africa
    • 38:01 - Opportunity in Australia
    • 39:12 - 3 tips to become a VC today
    • 40:12 - Progression within a VC
    • 41:51 - Traits of a great investment memo
    • 42:50 - Areas founders should be more aware of
    • 44:39 - Growth vs burn rates
    • 45:15 - Final sprint

    It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    ***

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Contact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve!

    Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show!


    #121 Mayuresh Patole: Breaking news! Announcing Squarepeg's investment in Chronicle, helping unleash your inner storyteller, guest hosted by James Tynan Feb 21, 2023
    Show notes

    Global tech investor Squarepeg announces investment in Chronicle. Hear from James Tynan and Mayuresh Patole!

    In this special episode #121, learn about:

    ▪️ 02:09 - James’ memories of first meeting with Mayuresh @ Chronicle

    ▪️04:04 - Mayuresh’ memories of early interactions with Squarepeg

    ▪️06:15 - Where was Mayuresh born and lives now?

    ▪️07:20 - Most profound experience in childhood

    ▪️10:38 - Ultra HD vision only at age 12

    ▪️13:07 - Parents influences and high performance

    ▪️16:00 - Living up to family expectations

    ▪️17:56 - The global significance of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

    ▪️20:13 - 800 students from a million applicants + CEO alumni

    ▪️21:40 - First spark of interest in the world of design

    ▪️24:22 - Helping 300 startup founders with “how to make kickass presentations

    ▪️27:35 - The rare package of design and analytical thinking

    ▪️32:22 - It’s too easy right now to make bad presentations

    ▪️33:52 - Constraint and power together in presentations

    ▪️35:58 - How Chronicle is using constraint for a great storytelling experience

    ▪️38:48 - Enabling users to design with blocks, not templates

    ▪️45:42 - Visual metaphor designed for the overhead projector

    ▪️49:02 - The new storytelling world using Chronicle

    ▪️50:48 - Use cases of generative AI in presentations

    ▪️54:20 - Final sprint rapid fire

    It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    ***

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Contact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve!

    Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show!


    #120 Tim Doyle + Alex Badran: Provocations & Round tables with the founders of Healthcare Tech startup, Eucalyptus and Pocket Money App, Spriggy Feb 16, 2023
    Show notes

    New series! In this episode #120 w Alex Badran and Tim Doyle, learn about:

    • 02:36 - Alex and Tim’s memories of meeting each other
    • 03:30 - Opportunity in marketing from capital allocation and media management
    • 04:10 - Probabilities and thinking in frameworks
    • 04:57 - Alex’s memories of winning competitions watching cricket
    • 06:56 - Grounding first principles in a logical framework from mathematics
    • 08:14 - Why not enter finance post PhD in math?
    • 10:38 - Career selection and matching interests and skills
    • 12:07 - Balance between data and judgement in decision making
    • 18:05 - Do founders have to evolve thinking from Seed stage to Series B and beyond?
    • 20:28 - Drawing inference to the needs of a population for product building
    • 22:02 - Role of data in performance marketing
    • 23:47 - Campaign at Eucalyptus that surprised Tim the most
    • 25:08 - Current phase of marketing being hyper local optimisation
    • 27:06 - Finding product market fit for the second act of the business
    • 33:24 - Customer problems, business problems, vision
    • 35:06 - Generalist vs specialists
    • 39:10 - Formulating team skill sets
    • 41:15 - Combination of personalities effective at specific times and not others
    • 44:18 - Outsource anything that doesn’t make your beer taste better
    • 47:17 - What makes someone the best?
    • 51:30 - Dreamers, leavers and settlers
    • 54:50 - Transitioning from corporate to a startup
    • 56:42 - Key learning for Alex and Tim in next 6 months

    It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    ***

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    Contact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve!

    Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show!


    #119 Wyatt Roy (Rare Public Interview): How he became the youngest EVER national govt minister + creating the national science & innovation agenda Feb 07, 2023
    Show notes

    In this episode #119 w Wyatt Roy, learn about:

    • Sunrise in regional Queensland and working on the family strawberry farm
    • Influence of high school teacher to enter politics at age 20
    • specifics of how he become a member of parliament
    • Similarities between politicians and startup founders (yep stick with us and hear the answer)
    • Overcoming age bias, and why it exists not just in politics but in areas like Military, Sport etc
    • Genesis for the National Innovation and Science Agenda
    • Transitioning the Australian economy towards innovation and entrepreneurship
    • Creating the first renewable billionaire, from renewables and sustainability, rather than mining
    • Why can “innovation” be a divisive word in government
    • “Don’t worry, a bigger idiot than you has gone before you and done it”

    It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    ***

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    Contact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve!

    Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show!


    #118 Anil Sabharwal (Rare Public Interview): Indian, Canadian & Aussie connection + Building THREE of Google's nine Billion user products! Jan 31, 2023
    Show notes

    In this epsiode #118 w Anil Sabharwal learn about:

    • Sunrise in Canada with Indian roots
    • Reflections on his early influences and leaving home at age 17
    • Highlights / Learnings from 10-15 year career prior to joining Google
    • Moving to Australia in 2006
    • Achieving momentum in early days at Google
    • Unlocking skills working across new markets, segments and industries in building billion user products and becoming globally recognised product leader
    • Building Google Photos into a billion user product
    • Leadership responsibility across product, design and engineering
    • Promotion to managing Google Chrome, ChromeOS and Communications
    • Product DNA differences between Photos and Chrome
    • Transition from Chrome to a blank canvas and prioritising values
    • Why is the product function king (or queen) at Google?
    • Key metrics to monitor in your product function
    • Make a few people very happy vs a lot of people semi happy
    • Success at 50

    It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

    ***

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Contact us via our website or email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests or share feedback, we love hearing how to improve!

    Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on iTunes and Spotify, it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show!


    Investment memo: How Startmate & Airtree are building the next gen of angel investors, explorers vs first believers + a special announcement! Jan 24, 2023
    Show notes

    We're joined by Ben Simai, the program led for Startmate’s first believers and Jess Walker, the program lead for Airtree’s explorers in their first joint appearance for this episode #117 and installment #22 of the special Curiosity series.

    Explore your curiosity about:

    • Quick intro on Ben and Jess and how they made they way into startups and investing
    • What is an Angel Investor?
    • Surprises about the entry points of angel investors?
    • Helping new angels overcome imposter syndrome?
    • What differentiates Explorers vs first believers program?
    • Pros and Cons of new vs experienced angels
    • Syndicates for non sophisticated investors
    • Why does startmate charge and Airtree is a free program?
    • Secret to earning trust with founders
    • Current economic climate

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    Find out more about Curiosity Center, including events, angel investment and 110+ podcast episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz

    Find out more about Startmate's first believers program at https://www.startmate.com/first-believers

    Find out more about Airtree's Explorers program at https://www.airtree.vc/explorer-program

    Share your feedback and discuss sponsorship opportunities with us by directly emailing vidit@curiositycenter.xyz or at https://www.curiositycenter.xyz/contact-us

    Follow the show on Linkedin / Instagram / Twitter


    Investment memo: ":Different", The power duo's quest from holiday idea to re-thinking property mgmt using learnings as early hire at Uber & more! Jan 17, 2023
    Show notes

    We're joined by Co-Founders and Co-Ceo’s of Different, Mina Radhakrishnan and Ruwin Perera in their first joint appearance on a podcast for this episode #116 and installment #21 of the special Curiosity series.

    Explore your curiosity about:

    • Mina and Ruwin growing up 200km's away from each other in Zambia without knowing it
    • How they met in San Fransisco many years later
    • Learnings from Uber, Google, Softbank, MBA and more
    • How Mina & Ruwin settled on different as their startup idea when they were travelling in 2016
    • “Property Management as a service for real estate agencies” - what was the problem different could solve in 2017?
    • When did they know that Different could be a big business
    • Business model working with property agencies
    • Biggest misconception about Different
    • Having a team across Sri Lanka and Australia
    • Managing disagreements as founders (and life partners)

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    Find out more about Curiosity Center, including events, angel investment and 110+ podcast episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz

    Find out more about Different at https://different.com.au/

    Share your feedback and discuss sponsorship opportunities with us by directly emailing vidit@curiositycenter.xyz

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