The High Flyers Podcast

What's better than spending quality time with the best Founders and Investors, jetting around the country? 2 weeks ago, I hosted the Melbourne edition of this invite-only dinner with 25 of arguably the top (Post Seed/Series A) Founders and some VC's. It was rated 4.9/5 and the pressure was on to deliver in the next one. Last week, I hosted the Sydney edition featuring again, 25 of arguably the top (Post Seed/Series A) Founders and some VC's, carefully handpicked, and again it has been rated 4.9/5 in the anonymous survey. "Wish the dinner went for longer to have more quality conversations with everyone" said one survey response. The best part of hosting events over the years (quality over quantity) has been.... The range of formats we've done, from large public events for 200 attendees to intimate 1:1 fireside chats for 40 attendees to invite-only dinners for 25 attendees, and others we don't share publicly. Only possible because of the support of a LOT of people involved, thank you. + Thank you again to our incredible commercial partners in KPMG High Growth Ventures and Herbert Smith Freehills for supporting us with these dinners!

Ep #176 is now live! ✨ Topics we cover include: ▪️Why LinkedIn can be a unique differentiator ▪️How to actually build world class founder and investor relationships ▪️How Henry and Mutinex converted a "no" into a "yes" and raised capital from EVP ▪️Why communication overhead kills businesses ▪️Why EVP haven't deviated away from their core identity ▪️Justin and Henry’s key development areas over the next 6 months. It’s now time to explore your curiosity with Justin Lipman & Henry Innis. 🎧 Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gBKd3cnW

Getting out of your screens and ears, and into high definition, LIVE and in-person is always fun. We've loved seeing so many of you at 30+ events over the past 4+ years that we've either organised independently, in collaboration with a partner or Vidit has moderated an event at Forbes, SXSW, Blackbird's Sunrise and many more. Who do you want to see at our next event? Tell us in the comments!

Big month of August on The High Flyers Podcast, and hitting 175 episodes! Thanks to our awesome commercial partners for supporting. Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g2kB9BDM Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g6Cpz64V Curiosity Center: www.curiositycenter.xyz Guests featured: (L-R) - Will Davies, Co-Founder/CEO @ Car Next Door / Uber Car Share - Sarah Nolet, Co-Founder/Managing Partner @ Tenacious Ventures - James Cameron, Partner @ Airtree

We announced a number of strategic commercial partnerships a few weeks ago, and briefly mentioned a couple more in the works: Welcome Vanta! Vanta just raised a $150 million (USD) in Series C funding at a $2.45 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital. Earlier this year, Vanta announced that it had surpassed $100 million in ARR in its financial year ending in January. Initially, Vanta focused on helping businesses obtain ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 2, and similar certifications. Now the company is aiming to go beyond that to become part of a larger and more holistic discussion about trust. Stay tuned for a number of initiatives coming up across our ecosystem of on-demand intelligence products at the Curiosity Center! Jonathon Andrew PJ Konner Stevie Georgia Johann Vidit

Something always goes wrong. The marketing collateral my team had organised fell through....at 8:30pm the night before. I hurried across to the nearest Officeworks store, laptop in hand, Canva open and printed 25 name cards for this dinner the next night. I'm now a self proclaimed expert in all things printing. AMA. A few nights ago, I loved hosting a very special and exclusive dinner with 25 of arguably the top (Post Seed/Series A) Founders and VC's in Melbourne. The latest addition in our 'Wondery' by Curiosity Center series of invite-only and bespoke dinners, programs, courses and workshops. We sent out an anonymous survey request afterwards, and as I've learnt anonymous responses can sometimes be a good reality check -- but attendees rated the event an average of 4.8/5 and I loved reading the qualitative responses (two of them below) 🙏 + “Great people. The founders were in similar worlds to me, which made the networking helpful from a professional perspective. On a personal perspective, the people were all great which made it very enjoyable. Would definitely come to another one, thanks Vidit really appreciate the invite." + “Great collection of people that I normally don't get to see." A big thank you to two of our incredible commercial partners in KPMG High Growth Ventures (who we've done a number of awesome things with now); and our newest partners, the world class law firm, Herbert Smith Freehills. "Play long-term games with long term people." The High Flyers Podcast

Ep #175 is now live! ✨ Topics we cover include: ▪️Growing up on a farm and influences of his two sisters ▪️Leaving the accounting firm, EY after 3 months to start the unofficial Uber Eats ▪️Various parts of the Car Next Door journey in granular detail including: Customer acquisition, Capital Raising, Dilution, Governance and Board Structure and lots, lots more. ▪️Inside story of the Uber acquisition ▪️Role of his wife, raising 3 kids, mental dialogue being "successful" It’s now time to explore your curiosity with Will Davies 🎧 Listen now: https://lnkd.in/eZZYwiYi

Yesterday, Paul Bassat announced his newest venture -- Amplify! Last year, Paul joined host Vidit for this episode #130 about his family grounding and upbringing, Realities of creating success at SEEK + Square Peg, Building a legacy & Australia's future! Vidit asked Paul -- "What should Australia do differently?" and his answer then was fascinating and potentially lay the seeds for what has now become AMPLIFY. Big congrats to Paul and the entire team, we're excited to support! Listen here: https://lnkd.in/g6p5qK9R

They’re changing the world. Young people are. One of my favourite ways to spend time is with high school and university students. I learn more vs sharing my learnings with them. Such a thrill this morning to be in Melbourne and spend it with the amazing students in University of Melbourne’s Master of Entrepreneurship co-delivered with Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship. Loved also learning from two of the awesome judges I was alongside in Bianca La Serra and Guy Franklin. Our key steer to the budding startup founders: focus on the customer, customer, customer. Thanks to Sangeeta Mulchandani, May Flaming and team for having me!

A real high flyer is someone who tries, even if they fail. Never let the naysayers get to you.