The Sachin and Adam Show

This week we had the pleasure of talking to one of Australia’s top artists Danielle Weber, whose painted portraits of famous people around the world and has accumulated over 200k instagram followers. We wish we were cool enough to be artists and her perspective to life blew us away. We dived into Danielle’s experience working with people like Dwayne Johnson, Danielle’s creative process and what it feels like to create art. We discussed how NFTs are transforming the artistic landscape and why Danielle is now selling digital art. Show notes Danielle’s Website: https://daniellesartwork.com/ Favourite book: Happiest Man on Earth - Eddie Jaku Favourite podcasts: Joe Rogan Inspirational figure you’ve never met: Oprah Favourite hobbies: Food and wine Our book: https://www.rising-tide-startups.com/

Max interviews Satya and Adam in a fun conversation about self-awareness, confidence, digital identities, predicting the future, exponential technologies, and crypto. They discuss the value of learning outside of traditional education, the appeal of polarizing figures, analyzing long-term games and incentives, vulnerability in podcasting, the uneven distribution of the future, and finding a balance between learning and other aspects of life.

This week we had the absolute honour of chatting to the CEO of Deloitte, Adam Powick. We spoke about Adams working class background, how he made career decisions and his lessons in leadership. What’s remarkable about Adam is his ability to balance authenticity and character with the more serious nature of leadership and we dived into how this developed. This episode is loaded with gems on career and life for everyone. You are in for a treat! Show notes  Currently reading: Dark Emu- Bruce Pascoe  Podcasts: Sporting Podcasts  Favourite sporting legends include: Mark Taylor and Greg Norman  Inspirational Leaders: Nelson Mandela and Angela Merkel  Hobbies include: Cricket  Favourite Dumpling: Truffle Dumping Din Tai Fung

This week we talked to Sam Wong who is a partner at Blackbird Ventures, one of Australia’s most successful venture capital firms. In today’s episode we talked about investing ethically, how she makes investment decisions, the trends in startups she finds most exciting and advice for young people who are interested in technology. Before entering VC, Sam was a lawyer for Minter Ellison, worked in product and strategy at SurfStitch and co-founded a company called CapacityHQ.

This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with the visionary that is Fred Schebesta. Fred is the founder of Finder, a crypto titan and the author of ‘Go Live! 10 Principles to Launch a Global Empire’. We went deep with Fred discussing human behaviour, space, how to find great ideas, the Metaverse and living a better life. Get ready for some conversations that will blow your mind! Show notes Freds book: https://www.fredschebesta.com/go-live Book: The 7 habits of highly effective people Podcast: Invest Like the Best, Acquired, Masters of Scale Inspirational figure: Ben Horowitz and Bill Campbell Hobbies: Minecraft

This week we interviewed African entrepreneur Kaivan Sattar. Kaivan started the digital bank, Asaak, which lends to people in Uganda who previously could not access credit. They have grown dramatically over the past year and are now doing over $1 million US in revenue per year.  We dived deep into the development prospects of Africa, Kaivan's founding story and the vision he has for Asaak.  Before founding Asaak, Kaivan worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, Grameen Bank and studied at Colombia and NY University.  For transparency, both of us made an angel investment into Asaak earlier this year.  

This week we had the absolute pleasure of speaking with Mark Carnegie, one of Australia’s top business titans. Mark was trained on Wall Street by James Wolfensohn and started the investment bank Carnegie, Wylie & Co. Mark then became the CEO of Lazard Australia and later on started M.H.Carnegie & Co, where he works today. We spoke to Mark about his career, what young people should be working on and the world of Crypto/DEFI. Mark is a massive advocate of crypto completely changing the world and we were fascinated to hear his thoughts. We honestly think this podcast was as informative as a business degree. Show notes: More on Mark: https://www.mhcarnegie.com/our-people Recommendations by Mark: Poor Charlies Almanack Tim Ferriss and Balaji Podcast: https://tim.blog/2021/03/24/balaji-srinivasan/ Quick fire: Book: Remembrance of Times Past, LBJ biographies. Podcast: Tim Ferriss and Balaji. Inspirational figure you’ve never met: Charlie Munger. Hobby: Trout fishing and sailing

This week we had a 1 on 1 together and chatted about what we've been doing recently, the direction the Sachin and Adam Show is taking, our recent Angel Investment into a Fintech company, and our life in lockdown. Enjoy! 0:26 Introduction 2:50 What we’ve been doing 8:05 Why we’re passionate about technology and venture capital & what we’re building 24:46 Our angel investment into Ugandan Fintech company Asaak 35:15 Learning from online communities 40:40 Life in Lockdown

We had the pleasure of sitting down with James Alexander, one of the youngest people to launch a venture capital fund in Australia. James is a technologist at heart and after studying computer science co-founded one of the first University startup accelerators, Incubate, where he has helped 100+ startups launch their ideas. What you will learn from this episode How James developed his love of technology The process of starting Incubate The characteristics of a great startup founder and Jame’s favourite companies The journey of starting a VC fund at a young age The trends in business and innovation across the next 10 years. Enjoy! Show notes Favourite book: The Black Swan- Nassim Taleb & The Beginning of Infinity- David Deutsch Podcast: A16Z Technology Podcast Person: Galileo Hobbies: Collecting music and Djing

This podcast features Moses Lo, a former management consultant turned entrepreneur who founded a $150m FinTech company in Silicon Valley. Topics include Moses's upbringing, experience at Y Combinator, scaling Xendit in Indonesia, and cultural differences between Australia and the US.