Growth Manifesto Podcast

In this episode we talk with Perry Marshall - best selling author of 8 books including The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads, The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Ads, the Definitive Guide to TikTok ads, and 80/20 sales and marketing - about his revolutionary new approach to business thinking called New Renaissance.

This episode is with Assaf Resnick - Founder and CEO at BigPanda, an AI Ops SaaS platform that recently raised $190M valuing the company at $1.2B. In this episode we talk about Assaf Resnick's journey from startup to billion dollar unicorn.

This episode is with Alex Osterwalder - Author of best-selling books Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design, and his latest book, The Invincible Company. He’s been ranked No.4 of the top 50 management thinkers globally, and he’s the co-founder of Strategyzer, which helps companies expand existing business lines, build new growth enginges, de-risk innovation ideas, and up-skill teams. In this episode we talk about how to build an invincible company through business model innovation.

This episode is with Aleksandr (‘Shurick’) Agapitov, the founder, CEO, and the man behind the multibillion-dollar gaming payment enterprise Xsolla which is used by Epic Games, Ubisoft, Twitch and hundreds more. We talk about the future of gaming, the metaverse, Facebook, Web3 and what changes we can expect to see in the next 5-8 years.

Michael Mandell - the #1 lawyer on social media with more than 6.5 million followers on TikTok, 1.25 million followers on YouTube, and hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook and Instagram. In this episode we talk about how he was able to build up such a big following on YouTube and TikTok for what is considered a more traditional, legacy (and boring) industry.

This episode is with Julie Winkle Giulioni - author of the international bestseller - Help Them Grow or Watch them Go, and one of Inc Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. In this episode we talk about her latest book - Promotions Are So Yesterday - Redefine Career Development and Help Employees Thrive.

This episode is with Bob Wiesner - Managing Partner at The Artemis Partnership, author of 'Winning is Better' and known as the ‘pitch doctor’ because of his approach to winning pitches. He’s advised on over 400 transactions in the last 25 years and his clients include companies like KPMG, Deloitte and JP Morgan Chase, and top firms in advertising, accounting, architecture, engineering, consulting, law and investment banking. In this episode we talk about his approach to pitching less and winning more deals, and how to out-pitch your competition.

This episode is with Oren Klaff - one of the world’s leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation. He’s the bestselling author of Pitch Anything and Flip The Script, and he’s the Director of Capital Markets at Intersection Capital, where they advise companies seeking to raise capital, with more than $1B in recent transaction volume. In this episode we talk about how to get more meetings, win more pitches and close more deals.

This episode is with Whitney Johnson - CEO of Disruption Advisors and one of the 10 leading business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50. She’s an award-winning author, a world-class keynote speaker, and an executive coach and advisor to CEOs. In this episode we talk about the concepts in her latest book - Smart Growth: How to grow your people to grow your company. Find out how the S-Curve applied to the people in your team can help keep them fully engaged, improve employee retention, and ultimately drive company growth.

This episode is with Niki Scevak - co-founder and partner at Blackbird Ventures, one of Australia’s leading VC funds, turning $1.2B invested since 2013 into a portfolio valued at $10B with investments including Canva, SafetyCulture and Eucalyptus. In this episode we talk about how to raise money from a VC fund with discussions around the VC industry in Australia, Blackbird Ventures' investment strategy, what they look for in a startup opportunity, how to pitch a VC, and what founders should focus on after they get funded.