The Sachin and Adam Show

Exploring work-life balance and friendship as founders, the podcast discusses setting boundaries, maintaining open communication, and the benefits of building a company on a foundation of friendship. The hosts delve into the challenges of fundraising, the importance of trust and alignment in co-founder relationships, and their perseverance and optimism in entrepreneurship.

David Perell, a prominent writer, discusses creating seminal content that reflects true nature, authenticity, religion, and navigating ambition vs. relationships. He emphasizes the importance of setting high standards, developing taste, and nurturing fresh ideas before judgment.

Exploring challenges in content creation, overseas talent bias, and fundraising complexities. Insights on balancing work and rest, with reflections on personal taste in creating impactful content. Featuring deep conversations with David Perrell and navigating the era of content saturation.

Tech guru Daniel Petre discusses changing how billionaires spend money, advocating for more philanthropy. He reflects on life lessons, balancing work and personal fulfillment, navigating adversity, and promoting authentic relationships over transactional connections. The podcast delves into the disparity in philanthropy among billionaires, calling for increased accountability and fair wealth distribution for societal needs.

Two best friends share their entrepreneurial journey of building a tech company, from quitting their jobs to facing challenges and fundraising. They discuss their personal bond, evolution of content, transition to tech focus, and exploring the future of media and distribution strategies in tech companies.

Katherine Boyle, a16z Partner, discusses investing in founders supporting national interests like aerospace and defense, exploring cultural shifts in tech. Topics include storytelling, embracing curiosity, startup fundraising challenges, recognizing emerging trends, and diversity in venture capital.

Elicia McDonald, Partner at Airtree Ventures, discusses drivers, sales as a VC, personality traits, and more. Topics include authenticity in VC, navigating grief, childhood influences on success, fundraising challenges, and balancing work-life dynamics for founder couples.

Former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, discusses Australia's tech industry, startup ecosystem, and social media regulation. Topics include fostering innovation, challenges in startup fundraising, media impact on democracy, AI risks, voice replication technology dangers, and promoting unity in Australia.

This week we sat down with the founder of Hustle Fund, Elizabeth Yin. Hustle Fund is one of the most well known pre-seed brands in the US and has over $100 million of assets under management. In a former life, Elizabeth was an entrepreneur, worked at google and was a partner at 500 startups. We chatted to her about all her career learnings and how she has built such a strong VC brand. 

This week we were joined by one of the most insightful and storied technology leaders Wesley Chan. Wesley started his career as chief of staff to Larry Page and Sergey Brin the Google co-founders. In this role he founded Google Analytics, Google Voice and Google Ventures. Wesley then went on to become the managing director at Felicis ventures before co-founding FPV ventures. We dived into Wesleys learnings at Google, his early life, why he is motivated by acceptance and the characteristics of a great investor. FPV ventures: https://fpvventures.com/ This episode is also sponsored by Recess a great Aussie startup providing furniture for your home and office. They’ve fitted out thousands of Aussies including the offices of Eucalyptus, Lyka and Afterwork. Mention our name for a cheeky discount. Check them out: https://recess.com.au/