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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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    #95 Blackbird's Creative Director Joel Connolly: Early influences of Darwin + Copacabana, inside the transition from music and creative to venture capital Jul 19, 2022
    Show notes

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

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz or contact us via www.curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share how we can improve.

    ***

    Welcome to episode #95 w Joel Connolly! Please enjoy.

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    01:50 - Where were you born and live now?

    02:00 - What was your first job and now?

    02:31 - High Flyer in Joel’s life

    03:58 - Darwin and Copacabana

    06:57 - Influences of family and public figures

    08:53 - Being raised by a single mum

    11:18 - First time he came across music and creative world

    13:13 - Career plan at age 18

    17:08 - Didn’t feeling like a creative till his mid 30’s

    18:10 - We’re all born creative

    19:36 - Creativity in podcasting

    21:39 - The move from music to Venture Capital at Blackbird

    28:05 - Unlearning and trying new things at Blackbird

    31:50 - How Joel created the Blackbird brand strategy:

    36:15 - Community and firm building

    38:25 - Most painful learning

    42:01 - Balancing creative role in an investment firm

    45:13 - Blackbird 2.0

    49:03 - What is brand building as an expression of who you are

    52:20 - What does crypto have right and wrong about culture?

    55:41 - How does Australia encourage Vitaliks (founder of ETH)?

    58:31 - Joel’s thinking in themes and not pictures

    01:01:12 - Rapid fire


    Jackie Vullinghs: Mum's early influence, unknowns about Milkrun, great consumer investing & Airtree VC's second generation Jul 13, 2022
    Show notes

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

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz or contact us via www.curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share how we can improve.

    ***

    Welcome to episode #94 w Jackie Vullinghs! Please enjoy.

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    01:55 - Where were you born and live now?

    02:07 - What was your first job and now?

    02:26 - High Flyer in Jackie’s life

    03:10 - Childhood in the UK w immigrant parents

    04:21 - History teacher influence to learn about the world

    05:22 - Cultural significance of studying history and connection to VC

    07:40 - Success at age 18

    09:07 - Do small things and chase curiosity

    10:40 - Growth between high school and university

    12:54 - Painful learnings

    14:50 - Working in investment banking and why she left?

    17:42 - Learning more in a startup vs investment banking

    19:09 - Building confidence to change professional path

    21:07 - Moving from the UK to Australia

    22:50 - Applying to Airtree a second time after being rejected

    26:25 - Setting up for success in first 6 months at Airtree

    29:30 - How did bouncing around help form a world view?

    31:01 - Filtering through information

    33:12 - How to get to know a company from scratch?

    35:22 - Investing in consumer

    37:50 - Airtree playing a leadership role beyond B2B SaaS investments

    39:40 - Becoming the first second generation fund in ANZ

    41:57 - Decision making adjustment now vs boom times

    43:41 - Unpacking MILKRUN

    47:23 - How becoming a mother has changed Jackie?

    50:08 - Rapid fire


    Kelly Godfrey: Growing up with 3 brothers in the UK, How she reached marketing director and country GM at global tech unicorns, ancestry.com and StockX! Jul 12, 2022
    Show notes

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

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz or contact us via www.curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share how we can improve.

    ***

    Welcome to episode #93 w Kelly Godfrey! Please enjoy.

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

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

    02:40 - High Flyer in xx life

    03:34 - Family memories

    05:16 - Mum’s influence

    07:19 - Gymnasts training 4x a week

    08:46 - London and Brighton

    10:41 - Success at age 18

    12:03 - Painful learning

    14:48 - Becoming Marketing Director within 6 years

    18:09 - Building social capital

    21:52 - Agency to in house marketing

    25:33 - Leading marketing for ancestry.com

    29:15 - Role of marketing in customer discovery

    30:35 - Moving roles and countries at same time

    35:15 - Success in first 3 months of new role

    40:34 - Taking a sabbatical in 2018

    46:57 - Exploring opportunities post sabbatical

    50:47 - Learnings about growth in new markets

    54:00 - StockX being at the cutting edge of culture

    56:07 - Rapid fire


    Investment memo: What is really going on in the economy, inside the current state of markets Jul 06, 2022
    Show notes

    Explore your curiosity with Elise Kennedy, who leads the Australian equity research team covering tech and internet stocks at the investment bank, Jarden. I really wanted to have Elise on because equity markets, inflation, interest rates, and the general economy are a hot topic of interest.

    Learn about the status of current markets and why we’re in this position, how are companies rated as under or over valued, the role of M&A and leveraged buyouts during volatility, geographical impact, tourist investors perhaps exiting the market and more.

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 90+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz

    Find out more about Jarden at https://www.jardengroup.com.au/

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

    Follow the show on Linkedin / Instagram / Twitter

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    01:46 - Elise’ path into investment banking

    02:56 - Life as an associate

    03:52 - Life now as Vice President

    04:32 - Perception vs reality of titles like Managing Director

    05:15 - Overview of current markets (public and private)

    07:18 - Tech companies seeing sell offs despite strong fundamentals

    09:09 - How do investment banks rate a stock as under or overvalued?

    11:55 - Tech pull back vs broader economy

    14:12 - Inflation impact on the consumer

    16:07 - Geographical impact and correlation between Australia and the US

    18:18 - Does Elise’ role change in an up vs down market

    19:29 - The role of M&A and leveraged buyouts in volatility

    21:32 - Opportunities for VC’s deploying capital at better valuations

    23:51 - “Tourist” investors leaving the market

    25:14 - Super funds tightening capital allocation

    26:56 - Cross over funds requiring re-alignment of exposure

    27:36 - Metrics of EBITDA, Price to earnings ratio, CAGR

    29:09 - Filtering through speculation

    32:30 - Structuring work week and reports Elise reads

    34:05 - Elise using her recreational pilots license to switch off

    36:00 - Personal areas of investment interest


    Investment memo: "Teenager Therapy", how 5 high schoolers created the largest teen mental health podcast in the world! Jul 04, 2022
    Show notes

    Explore your curiosity with Gael Aitor, one of 5 hosts of the largest teen mental health podcast in the world called Teenager Therap, based in the US. We connected a few months ago through a mutual friend and this was great fun.

    Learn about how they started this podcast and movement in their quest to talk about and Improve mental heath, their 3 biggest learnings to date, actionable insights on how we can all improve our mental health and we went deep into the state of podcasting, media and some of the innovation and trends we’re excited to see.

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 90+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz

    Find out more about Teenager Therapy at https://teenagertherapy.com/

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

    Follow the show on Linkedin / Instagram / Twitter

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    01:46 - Moving to the US from Mexico at age 16

    02:30 - Starting the largest teen mental health podcast (globally)

    02:50 - Discovering podcasts for the first time

    04:18 - Biggest learnings about the root cause behind mental health issues

    08:30 - Core root causes of a lack of mental health amongst all age groups

    10:40 - how to improve your mental health space

    14:38 - Balancing performance with inner relaxation

    15:51 - How mental health differs based on culture and country

    18:26 - The role of social media in vulnerability and connection

    22:45 - Seeking approval as a creator based on likes and comments

    24:07 - Most exciting trends over next 12 months in podcasts and media

    27:35 - Changing landscape of media and discovery limitations

    31:15 - Building a niche vs generalist show

    33:21 - Vidit & Gael riff on what they’d love to have in podcasts


    Dom Pym: Life experiences, people & learnings that've led to building Up, Australia's most loved bank! Jun 28, 2022
    Show notes

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

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz or contact us via www.curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share how we can improve.

    ***

    Welcome to episode #90 w Dom Pym! Please enjoy.

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    03:09 - Where were you born and live now?

    03:33 - What was your first job and now?

    05:20 - High Flyer in Dom’s life

    07:34 - Growing up in the mountains

    09:25 - Rich dad poor dad

    13:33 - Always being a bullet train

    16:46 - Meeting now wife when they were 6 yrs old

    19:20 - 3 traits for his kids to have

    22:00 - First trip overseas, to South Korea

    27:37 - Getting through bad days and pain

    30:01 - Setting goals monthly, quarterly and annually

    38:43 - Importance of healthy body and mind to be successful

    41:25 - How to scale Dom to have the most impact and get the rest he deserves?

    43:19 - How to build trust from scratch?

    46:11 - Inspiration for the creativity of Up Bank

    51:30 - Biggest commercial difference between physical and digital bank

    54:46 - First time investing in startups and how it happened

    1:00:52 - How to add value beyond capital

    01:01:48 - Final sprint


    Investment memo: "Earlywork", the community centred startup with 3k+ members Jun 20, 2022
    Show notes

    Explore your curiosity about the community centred startup Dan & his co-founders are building in Earlywork, that’s scaled from 0 to 3000 members.

    I’ve enjoyed being a member of this community from the early days so this was fun to learn more about how the co-founders compliment each other, Dan’s personal learning journey, why raising funding is not the mark of success, managing quantity vs engagement and more.

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 85+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz

    Find out more about the Earlywork at https://www.earlywork.co/

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

    Follow the show on Linkedin / Instagram / Twitter

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    01:54 - Sydney, Wollongong and Bondi

    03:08 - Siblings being high flyers

    04:25 - Tattoos and creative

    04:58 - Unknowns of co-founding team at EW

    08:26 - Founding team being a community, building a community

    11:31 - Dan’s own personal learning journey

    14:23 - Founders 12 months ahead as support

    15:49 - Growth & fundraising for a community first startup

    19:33 - Initial investment not being success

    24:46 - Hardest learning to date

    27:48 - Revenue models for community based startup

    30:02 - Managing quantity vs engagement

    33:08 -Anonymity in community

    36:10 - Founders not being the first line of contact

    38:07 - Key opportunity in next 12 months

    39:39 - Two questions Dan gets the most

    42:00 - Most engaged social platforms beyond slack


    James Tynan: Energy management post auto immune illnesses, scaling Khan Academy to the world's biggest EdTech, Venture capital unknowns & climate tech thesis Jun 14, 2022
    Show notes

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

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz or contact us via www.curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share how we can improve.

    ***

    Welcome to episode #88 w James Tynan! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

    1. Growing up in an ambitious household, being very driven from day 1

    2. Why James felt the need to move to the US post university

    3. Key learning from scaling Khan Academy from a YouTube channel to the world’s biggest ed tech (at that time)

    4. Energy management learnings from dealing with a number of autoimmune illnesses

    5. Behind the scenes of James' workings with founders & personal development areas

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    02:58 - Fun facts about James

    03:38 - Wife Kate being a high flyer

    04:33 - Big change when James was 10 years old

    05:20 - Parents in architecture and medicine

    05:44 - Personality in high school

    06:36 - Biggest influence in first 10 years

    07:42 - Success at age 18

    09:41 - How life changed in first year of university

    11:38 - Learning movement building with Obama 2008 campaign

    13:17 - 4 key learnings from scaling Khan Academy, joining very early

    16:50 - Critical story that helped understand emotional intelligence

    19:16 - How the move back to Australia happened

    20:31 - Seeing the building of Australia’s startup ecosystem in 2014

    22:36 - Energy vs time management

    25:23 - Why energy management hacks are not useful

    27:50 - Balance in Health vs performance

    29:28 - Transition from startmate to squarepeg

    32:11 - Joining Squarepeg during COVID lockdowns

    34:14 - Making founders comfortable in the 1st meeting

    36:47 - Connection to younger vs seasoned founders

    39:40 - How does SquarePeg differ to other big VC’s?

    42:49 - SquarePeg’s global presence across ANZ, Israel and Singapore

    43:58 - Analysis of current economic market

    45:47 - Does the VC firm or partner matter more?

    49:02 - Personal investment philosophy outside VC

    51:12 - Thesis on climate-tech

    54:57 - Area of improvement focus

    57:45 - Final sprint


    Investment memo: "ChefPrep", The culinary marketplace, building the Amazon for food Jun 13, 2022
    Show notes

    Explore your curiosity about the exciting culinary marketplace they’re building, positioned as the amazon for food.

    You’ll learn about the journeys of Joint CEO/Co-founders Elle Curan and Josh Abulafia to founding ChefPrep, initial proof points in the first 3 months, how food is disrupting e-commerce, What questions should a restaurant ask before partnering, and hear about their hiring plans over the next 12 months.

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 85+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz

    Find out more about the ChefPrep at https://chefprep.com.au/

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

    Follow the show on Linkedin / Instagram / Twitter

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    02:02 - Elle’s journey to ChefPrep

    06:19 - Being life and business partners

    06:52 - Josh’s journey to ChefPrep

    11:30 - Validating early proof points in ChefPrep

    16:38 - The ChefPrep model and how it’s evolved

    21:35 - Consumer behavior and range selection

    27:52 - What questions should a restaurant ask before partnering?

    31:46 - Managing volume vs quality when scaling

    33:16 - Biggest learning to date

    34:32 - Focuses on hiring over next 12 months

    35:42 - How to consider the move from corporate to startups?


    Kate Cornick (Rare Public Interview): Grandma's influence, studying engineering accidentally to building a career across Academia, Business & Govt Jun 06, 2022
    Show notes

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

    Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter

    Email Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz or contact us via www.curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share how we can improve.

    ***

    Welcome to episode #86 w Kate Cornick! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:

    1. Grandma’s influence to believe, and outdoorsy childhood with mad passionate for animals

    2. Accidentally falling into engineering after moving to Australia in her teens from the UK

    3. How shyness evolved and building public speaking skills (great tips for anyone looking to develop!)

    4. Building a life of work across academia, business and government, including deputy Chief of Staff

    5. Being headhunted to be CEO @ LaunchVic role after moving on from scaling her startup through to IPO

    Please enjoy!

    ***

    TIMESTAMPS

    03:07 - Fun facts about Kate

    03:39 - Re-imagining a high flyer

    04:14 - Influence of family growing up in London

    06:00 - Learning responsibility and power of work through horses

    07:40 - Grandma being a big influence to dream big

    10:24 - Accidentally falling into engineering

    11:56 - How Kate got past being shy and nervous

    17:00 - Nerves are selfish

    18:00 - Success post PhD

    22:04 - Learning how to build trust from politics

    29:09 - Exterior vs Interior leadership

    33:18 - Insecurity becoming arrogance

    38:30 - Understanding the business and academic worlds

    43:38 - Being headhunted to lead LaunchVic as CEO

    48:28 - LaunchVic funding startmate and other champions

    50:45 - The unique unlock of government funding for a startup

    54:50 - Final sprint


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