Sachin and Adam
00:05:44 · Adam, Sachin
[00:05:44] S0: Yeah. So the beginning of it was like, it was very natural. We're just talking to people we found interesting. And it's like, weren't marketing. We weren't trying to do anything with it. It was like, we just had lots of conversations. We love to learn. So we had on political activists. We had on bodybuilders. We had of... Had on positive psychology experts. We had on Trump supporters. We had very listening people. We just had chats with them, and it was, it was quite fun and interesting, but it started to change over time. [00:06:13] S1: Yeah. I think, like, the idea here is that like your content really reflects who you are in that moment. And in that moment when we first started, that was us. We're interested in a very wide variety of things. We're trying to create something maybe like Joe Rogan or Tim Ferriss esque. But as we started to get more interested in technology, our content started to reflect that. So we started interviewing entrepreneurs. I think one that I remember really clearly was Tim Fung from Airtasker. That was like... He's a fan of Airtasker. That was our first, like, big startup CEO that we got on. And then we also started to go more into the venture capital route. A particular episode there was Adam Milgrom, who's ironically now one of our investors, but he was talking about, like, you know, venture capital as a way of, impacting people, and he runs the Giant Leap Fund, which is which is the social impact fund.
00:06:59 · Adam, Sachin
[00:06:59] S0: Yeah. And taking it back, like, a little step, like, we weren't trying to be Tim Ferriss or Joe Rogan. Like, we maybe talked about a diverse set of subjects, but it was literally just like, I sort of feel like we were lost and we were trying to find our way in the world. Yeah. Like, we're interested in business, wanted to do something socially impactful, and we didn't know what it meant. And this was, like, our vehicle to be curious and to talk to people that had already done stuff. And so we're getting, like, sometimes, like, a thousand views, sometimes a few thousand views to go back to it. Was very, very tiny. But it was literally just our vehicle to discover the [00:07:29] S1: world and be curious. Yeah. And we, you know, we kept go... Ongoing with it even when, like, views were quite low. I think the big big break for us was getting Malcolm Turnbull on, who is a former prime minister of Australia. And some of those TikToks on that went to millions of people. And I think that's... For me, it's like, personally, when I first started to consider, hey, this is actually something that could go somewhere, but I never thought about it as a potential career. I never really thought about something that would go full time in anytime soon. Now this isn't a normal podcast advertisement because we're lucky enough to partner up with one of our favorite companies in the Australian ecosystem, Kinde.
00:07:29 · Sachin, Adam
[00:07:29] S1: world and be curious. Yeah. And we, you know, we kept go... Ongoing with it even when, like, views were quite low. I think the big big break for us was getting Malcolm Turnbull on, who is a former prime minister of Australia. And some of those TikToks on that went to millions of people. And I think that's... For me, it's like, personally, when I first started to consider, hey, this is actually something that could go somewhere, but I never thought about it as a potential career. I never really thought about something that would go full time in anytime soon. Now this isn't a normal podcast advertisement because we're lucky enough to partner up with one of our favorite companies in the Australian ecosystem, Kinde. [00:08:06] S0: We actually had Ross from Kinde come on our podcast a few years ago, and we're blown away by his vision for wanting to help enterprise businesses get started and scale quicker. [00:08:16] S1: Kinde is taking the auth world by storm, and CEOs that have come on our podcast have outlined that privacy and data security is one of the biggest threats to their business. But there's a problem. Auth is stuck in 2010. It feels clunky, the UI isn't very nice, and Kinde has come along to change this problem.
00:08:16 · Sachin, Adam
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00:08:57 · Sachin, Adam
[00:08:57] S1: And don't just take it from us. You'll be joining 25,000 plus developers from the best companies in Australia and the world, including Atlassian, Figma, and Ripley. [00:09:07] S0: So join the kind bandwagon and get started today. Now back to the episode. Yeah. And so I think that was maybe, like, the big break. Yeah. Like, that was, like, the first one that became sort of popular. You know, some of the podcasts got fair few listens, and some of the clips got, like, quite a lot of listens, millions of listens, whatever. And it was just like first, wow. But then I think after that, we also had a big shift. Well, during that, had a big shift where it went from being generalist business like to, like, technology and venture capital. Because as you mentioned, we had on that Adam Milgram episode, and this is a guy who runs an impact investment fund. So he's based in Giant Leap Fund in Melbourne, and they run they run like a 30 mil fund, I think, at the time, investing in socially impactful startups. And at the time, Sachin and I were like, we love business, started to like investing, wanted to do something socially impactful, and we used to sort of wanna go work for the UN, but then there were so many, like, problems and complications with, like, working for government and those sort of organizations. So we wanted to go the more for profit route. And we heard about his life, and it was like, wow. We could dedicate our whole life to that. And so we started to go
00:10:12 · Sachin, Adam
[00:10:12] S1: down this rabbit hole, again, just continuing that curiosity, and that led us to talking to other tech impact investors, just regular venture capitalists, founders, and we're like, oh, yeah. This is cool. And then that was, like, that sort of our niche. Yeah. And, again, like, the content reflects where you are in your life. And I think shortly after that, I started working in venture capital. The podcast was a big reason kind of I made that breakthrough after interviewing John Henderson. And I think that's also when you were starting to think about a career in venture capital. And if you if you asked us two years ago what would be for the next ten to fifteen years, I [00:10:49] S0: think we would both have said venture capitalists. And I think this starts to portray the steps of, like, where we are here today. Yeah. So you ended up working at Airtree. Like, you met John through the podcast. Yep. Awesome dude. Super smart. And then I started my grad career at Deloitte in consulting. You also started in Deloitte, but you were a year ahead of me. And I was like, I thought consulting was the thing I wanted to do. And I think it's a really great starting job for, like, meeting people in different industries, but I didn't feel that deeply or personally aligned to it. And for me, it was about, like, I felt like venture capital working in startups was the thing. And so I was like, you're already there. I was starting to try and shift to there. But I think, like,