The Startup Playbook Podcast

My guest for Episode 70 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Jason McPherson, Chief Scientist at Culture Amp. Prior to Culture Amp, Jason was a lecturer, researcher and consultant at the University of Adelaide, where he also completed his PhD with his thesis titled: Development and Assessment of Computer-Game-Like Tests of Human Cognitive Abilities After […] The post Ep070 – Jason McPherson (Chief Scientist – Culture Amp) on the science of culture appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for Episode 69 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Michael Cameron, the Co-founder & CEO of global travel startup, Rome2rio. Prior to Rome2rio, Michael spent several years at Microsoft as their Senior Software Development Lead as part of the Bing Search Team. He had also completed a PhD in Genomic Search Algorithms and […] The post Ep069 – Michael Cameron (Co-founder & CEO – Rome2rio) on going global appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for Episode 68 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Frank Arrigo, the Evangelism and Ecosystem Engagement Lead at Telstra’s CTO. Prior to Telstra, Frank had been with Microsoft for over 20 years across the US and Australia in a number of senior roles including Microsoft’s Developer & Platform Evangelism team and being the […] The post Ep068 – Frank Arrigo (Evangelism and Ecosystem Engagement – Telstra) on Atoms vs Bits appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for Episode 67 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Marisa Warren, the Founder, Executive Director and Chair of the ELEVACAO Foundation. Marisa is a global tech advisor, social entrepreneur and speaker, who is incredibly passionate about elevating women to higher levels and building a collaborative tech ecosystem. As an entrepreneur, Marisa has built […] The post Ep067 – Marisa Warren (Founder & CEO – ELEVACAO) on the ingredients of an effective pitch appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for Episode 66 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Jodie Auster, the GM of UberEATS Melbourne. Jodie started her career as an emergency doctor, before going to Business school. She then joined Scoopon as an early hire and as the General Manager of Operations, oversaw the growth of the company from 50 to […] The post Ep066 – Jodie Auster (GM – UberEATS) on hypothesis driven decision making appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for episode 65 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Jason Lim, the General Manager of York Butter Factory (YBF) and Director of National Innovation Precint, Hoist. Jason joined Melbourne based Venture Capital Fund, Adventure Capital over 5 years ago, providing funding and resources for startups to scale and grow. Since then, Jason has […] The post Ep065 – Jason Lim (GM – YBF & Director – Hoist) on learning from role models appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for episode 64 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Kate Morris, the Founder and CEO of Adore Beauty, Australia’s first e-commerce beauty store. With a lot of today’s media attention on the startup industry being focused around raising large funding rounds and successful exits, the challenges, struggle and shear resilience required to even […] The post Ep064 – Kate Morris (Founder & CEO – Adore Beauty) on the importance of resilience appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for episode 63 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Glen Rabie, the Co-founder and CEO of Yellowfin. Yellow Fin is a business intelligence platform that helps connect businesses with their data. Since launching in 2003, Yellow Fin has gone on to dominate the market counting large companies such as Coca-Cola, Honda, Xerox and […] The post Ep063 – Glen Rabie (Co-founder & CEO – Yellowfin) on the need for focus appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guest for episode 62 of The Startup Playbook Podcast is Robert Wickham, Regional Vice President, Innovation and Digital Transformation at Salesforce. Robert has had an interesting career to date – he studied Aeronautical engineering at MIT, before taking up a role within Management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group. He then left that that […] The post Ep062 – Robert Wickham (Regional Vice President – Salesforce) on ecosystem strategy appeared first on Startup Playbook.

My guests for episode 61 of The Startup Playbook Podcast are Samantha Stein and Anthony Ha from TechCrunch. In case you missed the announcement, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield is coming down under! As you may be aware, TechCrunch is one of the world’s leading technology media companies and they also host Startup Battlefield which brings the […] The post Ep061 – Samantha Stein and Anthony Ha (TechCrunch) on pitching & PR appeared first on Startup Playbook.