Funny Business
00:01:20 · Robbie Hicks, Lachlan Bradford, Sachin
[00:01:20] S1: It's very much you had a bit of you time. You got lost in the lost in the train of thought there, [00:01:23] S0: didn't I don't know. Look, there's not much happening in my brain at the moment. There's monkeys crashing symbols, and I just couldn't really get the shadow box of Reed out of my brain. [00:01:30] S1: Yeah. Yeah. They did a good job. On on today's episode, obviously, talking to two lads who have two friends running a business, had a pod that have turned it into a tech media startup. [00:01:40] S0: And and you couldn't... You didn't actually mention the name of their new business because I don't feel like you know how to say it properly. And I knew that throughout the pod because you're like... And then you moved on to your next thing. How did that all start? And I knew you wanted to bring it up. Is Kindling. Kindling? Kindling? Kindling? Yeah. That's what I mean. You don't know, dude. [00:01:55] S1: I think people [00:01:55] S3: can say [00:01:55] S1: it both both ways. [00:01:56] S0: Can they? Is that the beauty of the name? [00:01:58] S1: It's like locks. Some people call you lack. [00:02:00] S0: Lackluster. Lackluster. Yeah. It was a good chat. Honestly, we've known Adam and Sachin for a little while now, and I think last time we caught up on a video call, they were living together. I don't know if they were sleeping in in each other's beds, but they were pretty close, weren't they? [00:02:14] S1: Yeah. They were. They were. Enjoy the episode. [00:02:18] S0: You don't have many skills. [00:02:19] S1: That is true, Rob. Or many talents.
00:02:19 · Robbie Hicks, Lachlan Bradford, Adam Miller
[00:02:19] S1: That is true, Rob. Or many talents. [00:02:21] S0: Lads, thank you so much for jumping on the Funny Business Podcast. [00:02:23] S1: For those at home listening, tell us who are you and what do you do. [00:02:26] S2: Yeah. Thanks for having us. Sure. I'll go first. It's usually Sachin that goes first, but we'll change it I'm Adam. I'm one half of Kindling. That's the company that Sachin and I are building together, which is all about tech media and and tech content and helping to educate and inspire the world about the world of technology. And I guess Sachin and I, we sort of go sort of way back now. We've been producing a podcast for the past four or so years now called the Sachin and Adam Show, which is, again, talking to the sort of greatest leaders in Australia and across the world about tech, leaders that are founders, investors, operators. And before that, I was working in strategy consulting, did a bunch of different startup investing stuff on the side, had, like, a sort of wild journey at university trying lots of different things. And, yeah, that's me.
00:02:26 · Adam Miller, Sachin
[00:02:26] S2: Yeah. Thanks for having us. Sure. I'll go first. It's usually Sachin that goes first, but we'll change it I'm Adam. I'm one half of Kindling. That's the company that Sachin and I are building together, which is all about tech media and and tech content and helping to educate and inspire the world about the world of technology. And I guess Sachin and I, we sort of go sort of way back now. We've been producing a podcast for the past four or so years now called the Sachin and Adam Show, which is, again, talking to the sort of greatest leaders in Australia and across the world about tech, leaders that are founders, investors, operators. And before that, I was working in strategy consulting, did a bunch of different startup investing stuff on the side, had, like, a sort of wild journey at university trying lots of different things. And, yeah, that's me. [00:03:13] S3: Yeah. Similar to Adam, Kindling now, but before that was in consulting and venture capital at a firm called Airtree. So I was meeting lots of founders every day and being inspired by what they were doing. Like, they were the people doing the real work and getting their hands dirty and now switch over to the other side starting a company. But, yeah, before that, pretty stock standard path in terms of economics, finance, management consulting. Me and Adam were kind of on that path for a little bit before we opened our eyes to the world and what we really wanted to do.
00:03:13 · Sachin, Robbie Hicks, Lachlan Bradford, Adam Miller
[00:03:13] S3: Yeah. Similar to Adam, Kindling now, but before that was in consulting and venture capital at a firm called Airtree. So I was meeting lots of founders every day and being inspired by what they were doing. Like, they were the people doing the real work and getting their hands dirty and now switch over to the other side starting a company. But, yeah, before that, pretty stock standard path in terms of economics, finance, management consulting. Me and Adam were kind of on that path for a little bit before we opened our eyes to the world and what we really wanted to do. [00:03:42] S1: It's cool to chat to you, lads. Obviously, had a pod for a while now, similar to what we've been doing at Funny Business. But, Ken, before I get into, like, the hard questions, like... [00:03:49] S0: No. But but before you get into that, what I wanna know, Adam, you're a Toastmaster. I'm just looking I'm looking at your LinkedIn. [00:03:57] S1: Technically, my licenses. [00:03:58] S0: When you're saying I've done lots of things, I'm like, I looked at your LinkedIn page before, and I... Something did stand out. Toastmasters International and the gold duke of Edinburgh award. So I feel like you got a big... That's really embarrassing. [00:04:09] S2: It's like high school things have probably kept on for years. No one's ever brought that up. That's funny. [00:04:13] S3: But feel like for the Toastmasters, you had to act like a penguin or something.
00:04:13 · Sachin, Adam Miller, Lachlan Bradford, Robbie Hicks
[00:04:13] S3: But feel like for the Toastmasters, you had to act like a penguin or something. [00:04:16] S2: Oh, I had to do this weird exercise, and Sachin teased me about it for years. So I had to pretend to be a penguin in front of people. And I think I was pretty good, but Sachin thought it was pretty funny. [00:04:25] S0: I feel like that would be pretty funny. Like a Toastmaster, they they clean their glasses and stuff. They're like [00:04:29] S1: I think they do. [00:04:30] S0: Everyone draws some attention to me [00:04:31] S3: now because I'm important as [00:04:32] S1: fuck. Did you have to argue over whose name went first for your podcast? [00:04:51] S2: It was just that. But it's, pretty unimportant. Whose name [00:04:54] S3: would come first out of you boys? [00:04:56] S0: It's always Robin Lach, I feel like. Because I do a lot of the comms and stuff, and I don't really want it to be, like, me front and center straight away. You know what I mean? Like, Rob's the add on. Like to make him feel good. [00:05:05] S1: I know. I feel like you don't really do that with the rest of our content. He likes to be front and center, and I think that content's obviously a big topic we're gonna get into today. But, like, how do you
00:05:05 · Robbie Hicks, Lachlan Bradford, Adam Miller, Sachin
[00:05:05] S1: I know. I feel like you don't really do that with the rest of our content. He likes to be front and center, and I think that content's obviously a big topic we're gonna get into today. But, like, how do you [00:05:12] S0: guys know when... Who's gonna take the lead on things and stuff? Because when we get interviewed and go on things, sometimes it's like we kinda know beforehand who's gonna sort of speak on something, but I feel like with a lot of the, like, the smart sort of questions and and smart sort of responses, Rob likes to chime in and show off his intellect. [00:05:29] S1: We're like, you know, [00:05:30] S0: if if something needs to be a bit lighthearted, that's where feel I like I can jump in and have a bit of fun. [00:05:34] S2: But there's... What about you guys? Duo dynamic. [00:05:36] S0: Do you have something similar? It's pretty intuitive, to be honest. [00:05:39] S3: Like, because we're best friends outside of this and, like, we lived together for a long time. We've lived overseas together. It's kind of intuitive now. And I guess maybe, like, in a different way to you guys, we're both kind of similar in the sense that, like, we can probably both say the same things across a lot of stuff. So it's almost like sometimes when one of us is on a roll, we just let the other one speak. You know, when you're in flow and the words are coming out nicely, we let the other one speak. But it's pretty, like, we can switch it up.