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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 11: Entrepreneurial style and the correlation to success

In todays episode of Tribe Talkin':
A great long form article on Canva leading up to a potential IPO by David Swan
Rayn Ong: the accidental angel 
Cheryl Mack and Maxine Minter launch their new podcast "First Cheque" with the first guest being Jessy Wu
Employment hero with their monster $263M capital raise
Alpha Market growth summit summary
The 'science of selling' article by David Zhou and Dave McClure cupofzhou
Startmate's message to founders
Simon Thompson's article into the the research into The impact of founder personalities on startup success
We hope you enjoy todays episode!
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 10: Messaging- why good products, people and money can still fail

In this episode of Tribe Talkin': 
FTX/ SBF fraud trial
Canva's approach to intellectual property with their $200Mil fund 
The riches are in the niches 
Sales teams in product lead growth companies 
Airtree reaching 100 investments 
The Mr Yum and Me&u merger 
Deep dive: Messaging: why start ups with good products, people and capital can still fail
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Founder Focus Ep 8: Simone Joyce of Paypa Plane

Welcome to Transparent VC, by Tribe Global Ventures, the B2B VC. 
The guest for this episode of Founder Focus is Simone Joyce, CEO and founder of Paypa Plane.
Paypa Plane helps banks realize value from the billions of dollars they spend maintaining their payment systems. They do this through smart payment agreement infrastructure that sits over the top of all their existing payment types to help customers have one experience.
They raised $10million in Series A funding in early 2023, and have an impressive cap table including Commonwealth Bank, Tyro and Mastercard. 
Simone describes what she calls a 'weird journey' to Paypa Plane that she could never have predicted. Like many founders, Simone overcame adversities prior to Paypa Plane, and you’ll hear her determination to do what’s right and to succeed come through. 
With her brother Jonathan, Simone was able to turn painful situation into an opportunity and Paypa Plane was born. 
Simone talks about working with family in business, boards, expanding into the US by relating herself and her family, and what she has learnt so far. 
We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed the conversation with Simone. 
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 9: Organisational Health

In this episode of Tribe Talkin' we discuss:
AI tools in the classroom
Interacting with AI like a colleague/ coach 
Elon Musk's Neuralink announcing human trials
Results from the Cut Through Ventures quarterly report
A random chart on trucking employment trends, and the correlation of this data to historical recessions
A report on Airwallex's culture following some scathing Glass Door reviews
A discussion on organisaitonal health 
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Founder Focus Ep 7: Trenna Probert of Super Fierce

Todays Founder focus guest is Trenna Probert of Super Fierce.
Super Fierce is a digital advice platform that uses layers of financial IP and technology to quickly unravel the complexity of financial products. It allows users to get a fast digital statement of advice, as traditional financial advice is too expensive and out of reach for many people.
This episode is an incredibly honest conversation and fitting it was recorded on R U OK day, September 14th 2023. A small warning that parts of the conversation center on mental health and neurodiversity, which may be triggering for some listeners.
The episode details Trenna's amazing journey to Super Fierce, and a range of life shaping experiences long the way.
Trenna describes her approach to summoning the courage required to get up and to keep going following the inevitable trips and stumbles that is the entrepreneurial journey, and how she has continually overcome personal challenges to see her vision come to life. 
We hope you enjoy todays episode as much as we enjoyed the conversation with Trenna, and you can get into contact with Trenna via the website on on LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/trennaprobert/ 
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 8: Best in class SaaS metrics

In this episode of Tribe Talkin; we discuss:
The Instacart's IPO, and where IPO's fit as an exit option.
Trends we are seeing in the pricing of secondary share sales.
Issues around minority shareholder oppression following action against Sleeping Duck.  
The challenges with selling a business with an earn out structure and why they often don't deliver for the entrepreneur. 
Why early stage businesses should stay away from traditional bank debt.
What can be learnt from Meta's rollout of Threads.
MEQ raising $6m for its AI enabled meat tech, and what we are seeing in AI. 
Tail winds occurring for AgTech and feedback we often get from investors. 
The Top 100 innovators list released by the Australian, with a few shout outs. 
What best in class SaaS metrics look like from the following report:  https://chartmogul.com/reports/saas-growth-report/2023/ 
We'd appreciate a review and a rating of the podcast while you're here :) 
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Tribe Talkin’ Ep 7: Choosing the right investors

In this episode we deep dive into choosing the right investors, following reporting by Bronwen Clune and John McDuling from Capital Brief, about Dovetail turning down investment from Andreessen Horowitz when they raised $89million in the heady days of the Covid boom.
https://go.tribeglobal.vc/podcast/episode-13-tribe-talkin-ep-7-choosing-the-right-investors 
This got us talking about how founders need to choose the right investors, and share some experiences we’ve each had with regards to the good and the bad.
We discuss an article by Paul Smith talking about how we may coming out of a VC winter, and we talk about what we are seeing in terms of deal flow and valuations. The article also talks about the customers of B2B tech companies coming under pressure from the cooling economy, and we discuss common challenges in the B2B sales cycle generally.
We talk about how Robyn Denholm is using her considerable wealth and influence to back more women led tech ventures, although she says funding for female-led tech start ups has decreased over the past 12-18 months as a percentage of investment.
As part of this discussion, we have a slight diversion talking about how structure achieves strategy, and that there are always a range of factors often not acknowledged being the  foundations for the individual successes. We discuss some of these structural factors, and why one needs to be careful when successful people tell you why they think they were successful.  
Finally we close the episode discussing the upcoming Walter Isaacson biography on Elon Musk, and the various rather crazy stories that are already coming out. We tie a number of these stories back to lessons entrepreneurs and investors can learn.
For those interested in out B2B founder and investor offsite, here is the link: 
https://go.tribeglobal.vc/offsite 
As always we welcome any feedback, and would appreciate if you can leave and rating and a comment on the podcast before you go.
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Founder Focus Ep 5: Claudia Smith and Russell Smith of APLYiD.com

Today we chat with the cofounding team of APLYiD, Claudia Smith and Russell Smith.
https://go.tribeglobal.vc/podcast/episode-12-Russell_Claudia_APLYiD 
APLYiD is a portfolio company of Tribe, and provides world class KYC and AML solutions.
Claudia and Russell talk about their path to creating APLYiD which wasn’t their first entrepreneurial venture together – a repeating pattern we see in many successful co-founder relationships.
We talk about their decision to expand out of their first market, New Zealand, into the UK and the challenges they struck in this go-to-market strategy. As we have seen with other founders we have talked with on the podcast, what worked in their first market, didn’t necessarily work in their second. Claudia and Russel talk about what they learned, and what they would do differently with the benefit of hindsight. But as the podcast shows, they seek to learn quickly and fine tune as they go.
We talk about the temptation to scale sales teams too early before the marketing machine is really humming, as well as some growing pains associated with bringing investors, including us, on board.
We know it’s often challenging when founders bring on VC investors for the first time, and Claudia and Russell talk openly about the frictions they experienced. It was a reminder for us that people can experience the same event differently and we see this as an opportunity to look at what we can do to better support our portfolio companies in this transition.
This discussion goes into the role of an independent Chairman, and Claudia's and Russell's perception of the difference it has made to better supporting them and their team.
We hope you enjoy this episode, and as usual, we’d love to hear your thoughts and comments.
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