The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

This 3 part series is brought to you by Minke, wave hello to better savings. Explore your curiosity w Abhi Maran & Angela Ching, about the ABC’s of what a DAO is , how you can be involved in this new spin on a community of builders across the Asia pacific region and some special announcements they have coming upPlease enjoy! ***Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 80+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz Download the Minke app to earn high interest rates at https://www.minke.app/Get involved with DAO Under at www.twitter.com/@dao_underShare your feedback and discuss sponsorship opportunities with us by emailing vidit@curiositycenter.xyzFollow the show on Linkedin / Instagram***TIMESTAMPS02:35 - How did Abhi get involved with DAOs (Decentralised autonomous organisations) 04:21 - When did Ange first come across DAOs 05:23 - Why was DAO Under created? 10:23 - How Ange brings design value to the group 13:25 - How have they structured the DAO and design process? 15:24 -  Why do you need a DAO to build a community? 17:23 - What are pods? 20:24 - How does a DAO generate revenue and sustain itself? 23:10 -  Do you need a DeFi account to interact with a DAO? 24:43 - What separates great from good DAOs? 28:01 - Unknowns about DAO’s 29:47 - Are there regulations to be aware of? 30:30 - Roadmap ahead with exciting launches 33:11 - What’s been your biggest learning building this? 

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 TwitterEmail Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share feedback. ***Welcome to episode #84 w Alan Jones! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:1. Influences of growing up with dreamer parents and living in 28 houses before age 172. Two biggest learnings being a journalist3. Reflections on being the 2nd employee at Yahoo and employee share plans4. What do the best founders do when speaking to investors?5. Five people in the startup ecosystem he's learnt from the most Please enjoy!***TIMESTAMPS03:13 - Where were you born and live now? 03:53 - What was your first job and what do you do now? 05:17 - Why the unsung hero co-founder of Canva is the most talent technologist in ANZ 06:48 - Influenced by “dreamer” parents and learning what entrepreneur meant 10:31 - Learning from mum and her perseverance 11:25 - Trying journalism, programming and medical paths as career paths 15:07 -  The power of building your brand recognition and reputation 20:45 - Painful learning investing in hardware 24:55 - Being the 2nd employee at Yahoo and stock ownership learnings 32:12 - Nurturing up and coming investors 37:20 - What are founders not doing to stand out to investors? 42:41 - Creating your learning room of 5 operators, founders and investors 49:00 - How he’s raising a pre-seed fund in M8 ventures 55:33 - Do you feel successful? 57:35 - Best investment 1:00:23 - Appearing on the 20VC podcast

This 3 part series is brought to you by Minke, wave hello to better savings. Explore your curiosity w Josh Reyes, co-founder of Minke, the future of decentralised finance, how they’re offering safe and efficient yields to combat inflation and building the transparent consumer platform. Encourage you to download their app from the Apple App Store today. Please enjoy! ***Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 80+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz Download the Minke app to earn high interest rates at https://www.minke.app/Share your feedback and discuss sponsorship opportunities with us by emailing vidit@curiositycenter.xyzFollow the show on Linkedin / Instagram***TIMESTAMPS02:12 - Josh’s journey into crypto 04:23 - What is Minke? 05:32 - What is DeFi and difference vs traditional banking 06:52 - How to open a Minke account to deposit your savings 09:02 - How does DeFi have attractive interest rates? 10:58 - Flexibility with money deposited in savings account 11:58 - What is Stablecoin? 15:19 - How do central banks impact Minke? 16:33 - Building trust with consumers 18:01 - Operating in high inflation markets 21:43 - Sharia finance in islamic countries 23:46 - Low trust vs high trust markets 27:03 - Breaking down the recent LUNA crash 33:10 - How to evaluate whether to deposit money into DeFi

This 3 part series is brought to you by Minke, wave hello to better savings. Explore your curiosity w String Nguyen, the co-founder of Chubbiverse, a fast growing NFT brand! Learn about the A-Z to help you build your knowledge of this exciting space. Please enjoy! ***Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 80+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz Download the Minke app to earn high interest rates at https://www.minke.app/Find out more about the Chubbiverse at https://www.chubbiverse.com/Share your feedback and discuss sponsorship opportunities with us by emailing vidit@curiositycenter.xyzFollow the show on Linkedin / Instagram***TIMESTAMPS02:18 - How did you get into NFTs and Web3? 03:03 - Transition from consumer to builder creating Chubbiverse 04:16 - Where do you start with creating a NFT? 05:45 - How did you settled on Chubbiverse as your brand? 07:30 - What makes NFT’s look the way they do, unpolished? 09:31 - What is Product Market Fit in NFTs? 11:31 - Supply and demand 12:12 - How is an NFT priced? 13:27 - Value in Bored Apes 14:13 - How do NFT’s differentiate vs the marketplace? 15:29 - Importance of influencers to generate discoverability? 17:14 - Network effects and fear of missing out 17:44 - Why are NFTs the entry point to web3? 19:17 - How do you build a revenue model for an NFT? 20:39 - Scalability goals 21:47 - How do customers engage using Discord / Twitter? 23:04 - Do you need a chubbiverse to enter Discord? 23:34 - How to build education on ETH? 24:26 - Managing spam and building trust 26:06 - What news sources help with NFT knowledge? 27:12 - How to build a career in NFTs, founder or operator? 28:39 - DeFi supporting NFT’s and payments 29:35 - Benefit of curiosity  

Explore your curiosity w Christie Jenkins + Josh Thomas about bout professional athlete transitions into the business world and how Christie, Josh and nearly a 100 of Australia’s best and brightest athletes across all sporting codes have created an investing syndicate in Athletic Ventures.Please enjoy! ***Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 80+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz Find out more about the Athletic Ventures at www.athletic.vcShare your feedback and discuss sponsorship opportunities with us by emailing vidit@curiositycenter.xyzFollow the show on Linkedin / Instagram***TIMESTAMPS02:09 - Josh’s career in the AFL 03:13 - Christie’s career across 3 sports 04:07 - Planning life after sport 07:10 - Routines, habits and sprints 11:45 - Would you do anything differently if you go back 5 years? 14:31 - First interaction with startups and VC 17:31 - Knowledge building into venture capital work 20:52 - Coach, work ethic and people better than you 22:24 - Early days of building Athletic Ventures 24:47 - Biggest surprise 25:48 - How does Athletic Ventures best serve founders 28:26 - Long term excitement for Athletic Ventures 29:18 - How should founders view athletic on their cap table 31:39 - Most recent publicly announced deal and why 34:12 - Industries athletic ventures can best help in 36:28 - Key focus on Series A and why 

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 TwitterContact Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share feedback. ***Welcome to episode #80 w Bill Bartee! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:1. How growing up near a NASA facility started Bill's love for science, tech and engineering2. Reflections on working in Silicon Valley in the 80's seeing the early technology evolution3. What he learnt from his most painful learning and why one advice has stuck the most 4. The 5 hall of fame Australian VC's Bill would love to be in a room with5. Why is deep tech innovation different and how does talent equate in Australia vs the USAPlease enjoy!***TIMESTAMPS03:03 - Growing up seeing rocket launches 03:40 - Papers, washing cars and labourer 04:24 - Double nobel prize winner in Physics and Chemistry 06:12 - Economically poor, intellectually rich 08:01 - Aspirations to be an astronaut 09:48 - Building information sources in the 1960/70’s 11:07 - 25 year love for Australia 12:45 - Working across the spectrum: large, medium and early companies 15:13 - Evolution in rate of learning 17:54 - what makes people succeed 21:08 - 99% of learnings coming from failing 23:36 - Not judging a book by it’s cover 26:39 - Applying mathematics love to startup investing 30:32 - Venture Capital today vs the early 2000’s 35:02 - Co-founding 3 x VC firms 38:12 - top 5 hall of fame investors 41:10 - founders from 2000’s that impressed the most 43:47 - metrics in sass vs deep tech 48:23 - How do investors help deep tech founders? 50:54 - Most challenging mental models 52:43 - Talent equation in deep tech: Australia vs USA 54:26 - final sprint 

Explore your curiosity w Yolanda Redrup about media, journalism and how news operates in startups, technology and capital markets. Please enjoy! ***Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 75+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz Find out more about the Australian Financial Review at www.afr.comShare your feedback and discuss partnership opportunities with us by emailing vidit@curiositycenter.xyzFollow the show on Linkedin / Instagram***TIMESTAMPS02:00 - Melbourne and swimming 02:32 - Being set on journalism from age 13 04:15 - How you can build your career in journalism 06:09 - Behind the scenes of how an article comes together 09:27 - Inbound, Outbound and reactive news sources 10:46 - Does the first sentence need to be a hook? 13:08 - How much editorial approval does a journalist need? 14:36 - what software is useful for interviews and writing articles? 15:52 - How does street talk differ from tech news? 17:30 - What is the biggest unknown about your role? 19:06 - How to invest and nurture relationships? 20:50 - Being a journalist with an investor approach 21:34 - How do VC’s get their capital raise featured in the AFR? 23:50 - Biggest change having covered tech for 10+ years? 27:44 - How do you keep up your learning of media landscape? 29:15 - What separates a great journalist from the rest? 30:09 - How to decide what news platforms to read? 31:36 - The role of independence in journalism and being neutral? 33:30 - One thing you’d like to learn in the next 6 months?

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 Contact Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share feedback. ***Welcome to episode #78 w Matt Allen! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:1. How Matt found his passion for music and computers in high school2. Why success at age 20 was building out his first startup, providing web based solutions for insurance companies3. Balancing a conservative approach to finance with investing in high growth (and high risk) startups 4. What is venture debt, how it's structured and when should founders consider it5. The five active hall of fame investors in Australia / New Zealand to be in a room withPlease enjoy!***TIMESTAMPS02:28 - Birth place and residence now 03:16 - First job and various roles now 04:07 -  High Flyers under the radar 05:08 - eldest of 3 brothers and attending agricultural school 08:24 - Computer teacher being an influence 09:37 - Infamous blue hat 10:25 - Early days of the internet: building web based solutions for insurance companies 11:25 - Biggest unknown for startups in the 90’s 14:03 - Balancing financial conservative approach with investing in high risk startups 16:10 - Most painful learning 17:43 - First time into angel investing 21:30 - Process for getting to know founder / business from scratch 24:33 - Meeting thousands of founders at Amazon startups 28:02 - 5 people to have in the “active hall of fame investors” room 30:24 - Decided to be a founder again with Tractor Ventures 36:04 - Financial structure within Venture Debt model 38:23 - 3 use cases for a founder to consider revenue based financing 41:10 - Supporting the longevity of a company 43:42 - Building education in community about finance and debt 46:56 - Matt’s routines to balance his various roles 49:09 - Building and maintaining reputation 52:07 - How Matt got started making websites for bands 54:02 - final sprint 

Thank you for rating / reviewing this podcast on iTunes and Spotify, as it helps others find us and convince guests to come on the show and grow the show with sponsors and partners. Follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter for more!Contact Vidit directly at vidit@curiositycenter.xyz to discuss sponsorship opportunities, recommend future guests and share feedback. ***Learn about Rachael’s sunrise in New York, with her dad being the son of jewish immigrants and mum from a rural part of New York with 8 brothers and sisters with Rachael's mum being the eldest. Welcome to episode #77 w Rachael Neumann! Here are 5 key takeaways you will learn from this episode:1. Influences of growing up in New York with two sides of the family, with her parents bringing different perspectives2. Navigating her career having varied interests and taking the the entrance exams to law, business & medical school3. Why the transition from the US to Australia was hard personally and professionally4. 2 big learnings from leading eventbrite and Amazon startups teams5. Process to get to know founders from scratch to consider investing in, how to say no with empathy and valuations vs hypePlease enjoy!***TIMESTAMPS02:25 - New York and Melbourne 04:00 - Re-imagining a high flyer 06:00 - Being a social chameleon navigating the two sides of her family 08:33 - Wanting to leave New York City 11:33 - Heroes in Nobel Prize Winners 13:30 - Success at 20 15:35 - Painful learning from having varied interests 22:04 - Moving to Australia by accident 25:25 - Major differences between US and Australia 28:51 - Hiring a team for a new category that doesn’t exist yet 33:10 - How investing in startups started 36:45 - Process for getting to know a business from scratch 40:26 - Dislocation of Valuations vs hype in valuations 43:33 - How to say no with empathy 48:17 - Transition from individual investor to a fund 53:22 - Final sprint!  

Explore your curiosity w Kate Dinon about PR, communications and investment to scale startups.Learn about how Kate had her break into PR & CommunicationsBuilding out her own firm Character & Distinction, based in Melbourne with a roster of recognisable brands. First few months of starting the firm, client relationships, bad story telling and displaying culture in their office space. Unpacking Kate’s foray into supporting startups through mentoring and investment via Protagonist Capital & what they're looking for in founders and early stage startups. Don’t miss out on a special rapid fire round with your community questions! Please enjoy exploring your curiosity as I did mine through this conversation!***Find out more about Curiosity Center, including 75+ episodes at www.curiositycenter.xyz Find out more about Character + Distinction and Protagonist Capital at https://ofcharacter.com/Share your feedback and discuss partnership opportunities with us at vidit@curiositycenter.xyzFollow the show on Linkedin / Instagram***TIMESTAMPS02:20 - Where you were born and live now 03:02 - Do you remember the first time you heard of PR & Communications? 04:16  - Was it a conscious decision to start your own PR firm? 06:08 - What were the first months like in 2017 and unknowns? 07:55 - Did you find building relationships was a focus moving back to Australia from Switzerland? 10:31 - How does a client relationship work in practise? 12:40 - How does a first client meeting work and what can PR help with? 15:14 - What is bad story telling? 17:22 - Are there high maintenance vs low maintenance industries? 19:44 - What are your sources of learning and inspiration? 22:17 - Importance of Character and distinction visible in their office space 25:15 - Supporting startups through Protagonist Capital 27:32 - What are you looking for in the deals? Specific sector or person to support? 29:00 - Supporting founders in consumer facing brands and enterprise tech for future of work 30:32 - Naming conventions for Protagonist and Character + Distinction 32:29 - Rapid fire round of your community questions