Funny Business
00:05:39 · Sachin, Adam Miller, Lachlan Bradford, Robbie Hicks
[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. [00:06:02] S2: I think we would, like, just really put in the reps of having lots of conversations together, like, in social settings, like parties, but ones in, like, business scenarios. And so when you do thousands of those, like, you just know when someone's about speaking when someone's not. And so in a podcast, like, we... When we first started doing it, we used to do this thing where we would tap each other under the table when you wanted to speak. But now we don't even need to do that because, like, we just... We've got that intuitive sense when the next person wants to speak, which is pretty cool. [00:06:25] S0: I love that. We just cut each other off. We... Yeah. What we do is, hang on. Before this leaves my mind, I need to get this out here. [00:06:31] S1: What you're saying? Shit. Let let take a I do
00:06:31 · Robbie Hicks, Lachlan Bradford, Sachin
[00:06:31] S1: What you're saying? Shit. Let let take a I do [00:06:34] S0: the edits. Yeah. And sometimes I hear it, and it's just like, Rob's just trying to clean up this question that I'm trying to ask, and it's it's funny. It's just like, no. I I just kinda wanted to go that way, [00:06:43] S1: and you're like, they're they're not digging that one. That's not that's not how it is. But, hey, let's re... Let's rewind back a little bit four years ago, starting the pod, doing what you're doing now. Would... Do you... Did you expect to be able to take a pathway like this and for it to shape the way it has? [00:06:58] S3: Yeah. Absolutely not. I think we started the podcast when we're both in second year uni, and it was purely just out of curiosity. It was like we were having interesting conversations with friends over coffees and green teas, and we're like, hey, why don't we just record this for other people? Adam and I were naturally people that would like, you know, kind of those wanky uni students that would message people on LinkedIn and be like, hey, can we grab a coffee and pick your brain for information? And we're like, why don't we just share this with other people? And that was genuinely it. No ambitions. We didn't even know it was really a podcast. We just recorded it and put it online, and we're like, we're just sharing this information.
00:07:30 · Adam Miller
[00:07:30] S2: Yeah. It's pretty weird at the start. Like, our first three episodes, I think we had a political activist and a bodybuilder, then a social entrepreneur. I think we had, like, a huge Trump supporter on, then we had, like, a really left wing person on, and just, like, getting different viewpoints about really different things just because we're curious. And then I think over time, like, our just natural inclination and interest took over. Then it became more about business, and we sort of learned more about tech and venture capital. And it was like, you know, that just created this snowball effect of us going deeper and deeper into that world. And then eventually, it became known as, like, this sort of tech podcast. And, like, we just... A a lot of people, like, would ask us, like, oh, how did you get to doing so many episodes? How did you stay committed? But it's, like, that was never a question for us. We just like doing it. And, like, we're meeting cool people, having these conversations. It has other benefits. So we just kept on doing it for years.
00:08:21 · Sachin, Lachlan Bradford, Robbie Hicks
[00:08:21] S3: I I think you guys will feel this, but, like, the podcast is very reflect... A reflection of where you are at at... In that current point of your life. Like, I... Like, even a couple of years ago, our podcast, we started to ask our guests a lot more about love and their personal lives because we're grappling with those questions ourselves. Like, how do you run a business and have a good relationship at the same time? And, like, nowadays, we're getting on more founders than investors because we're both... Know we're not gonna go down the investing path in the next few years. So now we wanna learn more from founders and people building things. So it's like very much reflects where you were at in your life. [00:08:50] S0: I love that. I always worry about it with my future kids going back and listening to all the stuff that we're... We record because it's like you can really... It's like an open journal sometimes. And when you do so [00:09:00] S1: much content, [00:09:01] S0: I feel like you can forget sometimes that you're just, like, sharing stuff. I don't know. You you feel like... Because you're not a big sharer, are you?
00:09:01 · Lachlan Bradford, Robbie Hicks, Adam Miller
[00:09:01] S0: I feel like you can forget sometimes that you're just, like, sharing stuff. I don't know. You you feel like... Because you're not a big sharer, are you? [00:09:07] S1: No. I feel like the podcast for me... We don't do as much content as what you lads are doing now from like a a video perspective. But again, like, I feel like when we kicked our pod off, which is still sort of similar sort of time, it was still new, like pods are... I feel like now it's very saturated people who wanna start a pod. There's very low barriers to entry, people who wanna do it. A lot of people who are, I think there's a little like spoiled for choice on what you wanna listen to, and I think for us, and I think similar for what you guys are doing is like there wasn't that many people covering business in Australia. You know, like there was from like May... Like mass media sort of angles, but no one that was really trying to cover it with any sort of like energy in a different perspective that wasn't so [00:09:48] S2: serious, like, suit and [00:09:49] S1: tie sort of sort [00:09:50] S0: of vibes.
00:09:50 · Lachlan Bradford, Robbie Hicks, Sachin
[00:09:50] S0: of vibes. [00:09:51] S1: And, like, again, I really echo what you guys are saying, like, having the opportunity to meet and pick people's brains. It almost... There's a big element of, like, that selfish endeavors. Like, oh, we're learning too. I feel like people are making lots of money. People are asking questions like, oh, like, what are you learning about outside of this? And I used to be someone who used to consume, like, oodles amount, like like, ridiculous amounts of comment. Info obesity. Yeah. Like, oh, I wanted to take in a bunch of this stuff, but then since since we started the pod four years ago, I've really struggled to, like, have the same amount of interest because I feel like we're so lucky and grateful now that we can get people on like yourselves and learn about different topics. I feel like that's for me, it's like learning through the work versus like just rote learning or theory learning. [00:10:34] S3: Yeah. It's noticing your guys' different personalities because like Rob, you definitely feel like the more like slightly analytical, like, you think a lot before you speak, and then Lach, you you seem like more extroverted. Just, like, get it out there. [00:10:48] S0: I'm very measured. I feel like I'm very measured. [00:10:50] S1: No. No. I feel [00:10:50] S0: like sometimes, though, like, that's why I think we work well together is because we sort of even each other out in that sort of sense. So no one's like... We're never really both that uncomfortable. Either one of us is uncomfortable and the other one's working through it for us