Transparent VC by Tribe Global Ventures
The Transparent VC podcast, brought to you by Tribe Global Ventures, the VC helping B2B Tech companies scale into the UK and US. This podcast seeks to give insights into venture investing for both founders and investors, and have a bit of fun along the way.
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Saturday Nov 04, 2023
Saturday Nov 04, 2023
In this episode of Tribe Talkin'
- Twitter's daily active users drop.- Twitter's internal valuation slashed.- AI in due diligence and data rooms.- Tritium potentially potentially closing down Australian operations. - The Co-Founder of Invidia, Jensen Huang saying he would not start a business again with what he knows now.- Adir Shiffman and the Sleeping Duck court case that seems to be dragging out.- Valuations for early stage businesses.- Do founding teams need a technical co-founder?- BRW Young Rich List: doesn't mean you've got any money.
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Saturday Nov 04, 2023
Saturday Nov 04, 2023
Today's Founder Focus guest is Nick Abrahams. Nick is a Partner and Global Co-leader Digital Transformation of the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm with 7000 people. Nick is also a co-founder of LawPath, a legal platform with over 400,000 users.
Nick is passionate about the law, however his overall journey is nothing short of amazing as you’ll hear in this episode.
Nick studied law in the late 80’s and then began his law career in the early 90’s in Sydney. Nick moved to Tokyo where he not only practiced law, he owned the Tokyo Comedy Store. This ain't no joke! We discuss how comedy fits into communication techniques.
A love of film saw Nick also pursue acting which led him to become an executive with Warner Brothers Studios. Nick shares his lessons from this time, and how this dream didn't really match the reality of the role.
An entrepreneur at heart, Nick joined a dot.com boom era business, learning lessons about growth and market crashes that would serve him well in his future entrepreneurial endeavors and advising entrepreneurs as a lawyer.
In 2013, after seeing a gap in the market for SMEs and entrepreneurs who could not afford traditional legal support, Nick co-founded LawPath. LawPath has grown to over 400,000 happy customers and more than 10,000 5-star online reviews which is an incredible testament to getting product market fit validation early on - something Nick talks about in this episode.
Nick has a deep interest in artificial intelligence, and shares where he sees this innovation taking companies.
There is so much to learn from this episode, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it.
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Friday Oct 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
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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Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
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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Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
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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Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
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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Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
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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Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
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/
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