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Day One®The Great AI Assistant Showdown: Alex Valente, Co-Founder & Co-CEO Quarterzip AI
Third time's a charm! Alex Valente, CEO of Quarterzip and officially a friend of the show (whether he likes it or not), is BACK on In The Blink of AI, joining…
Day One®Mark Deacon's Marketing Hub: AI Revenue Engine
Canibuild's sales team used to record personalised prospect videos by hand. Each one took 15 to 20 minutes, so reps did them in bursts, when they had spare…
Day One®The Admin That Never Ends: Dilani Kahawala on Building Anna
Georgie Healy talks to Dilani Kahawala, who built Anna, an AI assistant for parents. Anna connects to your emails and calendars and surfaces what needs your…
Day One®Just Record Your Screen: Guy Fenton, Head of Go-to-Market at Akai by Deel
Georgie Healy talks to Guy Fenton, who heads up go-to-market for Akai, the AI workflow automation platform from Deel. Akai started as an internal tool at Deel…
Day One®Stop Automating Away the Moments That Matter
Danny Seals has advised some of the most complex People teams in the world — big pharma, banking, and large-scale consultancies — and right now he's hearing…
Day One®Longevity BS, Breakthroughs and What Comes Next
In Part Two of my conversation with Dr Steven Lu, Everlab’s co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, we unpack what’s actually worth measuring, which treatments…
Day One®The UI Was the Moat: Mirko Gropp, GM of Digital, Data and Technology at The Living Company
Georgie Healy talks to Mirko Gropp, General Manager of Digital, Data and Technology at The Living Company, live from Dreamforce day three. The Living Company…
Day One®The AI Nomad: How Nathan Clark Switches Tools Without Losing the Work
Nathan Clark runs three clients on three different AI stacks. One has standardised on Claude, the next on ChatGPT, and he doesn't have the luxury of picking…
Day One®The Everlab Journey and Building Preventative Health
Everlab has raised around A$80 million, including a recent A$65 million Series A, reached 20,000 patients and processed more than 21 million biomarker results…
Day One®Jessica Christiansen-Franks - $1.2M Gone in Three Days
Jess co-founded Neighbourlytics in 2017, taking the placemaking work she'd done as CEO of CoDesign Studio and turning it into a data product that measures what…
Day One®The End of Logging in? Live from Dreamforce: Agentic AI, Headless and Customer Zero
Description Couldn't make it to Dreamforce? Salesforce is bringing the latest from the event to Sydney on 20 October and Melbourne on 27 October with…
Day One®Chad Stephens – You Can't Make Money From a Form
Chad Stephens and three mates couldn't get a rental in Brighton. After filling out the same two-page paper application for property after property, Chad and…
Day One®Why Australia Has More AI PhDs Than Anywhere | First Cheque
Episode Summary Blackbird partner Tom has spent the last decade obsessing over one thing: why Australia talks about innovation from a place of doubt, while the…
Day One®Atlassian After the Co-CEO Era: What Comes Next?
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar built Atlassian into one of Australia's most successful tech companies, and one of the rare local startups to become a…
Day One®The Mad Men Era of Knowledge Work: Inside Román Olivera's Agent Brain
Román Olivera runs his company on files and folders. No database, no CRM platform — a fractal system he calls Flatfish, built from plain text and a set of…
Day One®Patrick Buchan: Australia's first new steel mill in 30 years
Australia hasn't built a new steel mill in more than 30 years. Greensteel Australia is about to — a $500 million all-electric plant on the old BHP site at…
Day One®Inside Alexa Plus: Amazon's Blake Nussey on Voice AI, Far Field Tech and Building for Australia
Blake Nussey leads at Amazon on Alexa, and he joins Georgie for a deep dive into Alexa Plus, now live in Australia. They cover the shift from rigid voice…
Day One®Why Everybody Unpacks the Dishwasher: Ella Brennecke, People Operations Manager at Everlab
DESCRIPTION Most people teams wait until someone with an HR background is in the room before they build a culture function. Ella Brennecke didn't have one, and…
Day One®Stephen Wools – Be a Cockroach: You Can Survive Anything
Stephen Wools has built creative agencies, toured Jordan Peterson and Theo Von, opened one of Melbourne's most talked-about bars, signed the biggest…
Day One®The Cancer Vaccine That Worked and the Wearables That Don't?
A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has succeeded in a late-stage trial for the first time, and Moderna's shares ripped as much as 177% in a single day on the…
Day One®VC Jargons 101: What Investors Really Mean When They Say “It’s Not a Fit"
Episode Summary “It’s not a fit.” “You’re too early.” “Let’s have one more meeting.” “We’re still building conviction.” If you’ve ever walked out of an…
Day One®Georgie’s First Ever Ask Me Anything (50K Special)
For the first time in 80 episodes, host Georgie Healy flips the format and answers your questions. Recorded to mark 50,000 Spotify plays, this Ask Me Anything…
Day One®Marketing at the Speed of AI: Luke Marshall's One-Man Growth Machine
Luke Marshall, CEO at GradEngage runs growth marketing from a single Claude Code instance — hosted on a cloud VM so he can reach it from any device, tied to a…
Day One®Nick Maxwell – Be the Duck on the Pond
Nick Maxwell got cut by the same football club four years running. Cut at 14. Cut at 15. Cut at 16. Cut at 17, three minutes into a trial, with a snapped…
Day One®Hiring 10X People Will Not Give You a 10X Company with Colby Nesbit
Description: Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we dive into startup compensation with industry leaders from across the startup world. In this episode…
Day One®Vibe coding til he dies
Lazar Jovanovic didn't go to engineering school. He found a beta tool called GPT Engineer, set himself a challenge to build a new app every week, and filmed…
Day One®The Engineer Who Hasn't Written Code in 9 Months: Jack Rudenko, 10x Labs
Jack Rudenko hasn't written a line of code himself in nine months. In that time, his team has shipped six or seven products used by millions of people, and he…
Day One®Shane Chanel - Nothing’s Ever Going to Be as Hard as That Day
Shane Chanel bet his entire life savings, $20,000, on a four-wheel drive racing app when he was 14. It wasn't his last high-conviction bet. He went on to leave…
Day One®Patrick Buchan: Australia's first new steel mill in 30 years
Australia hasn't built a new steel mill in more than 30 years. Greensteel Australia is about to — a $500 million all-electric plant on the old BHP site at…
Day One®Trust Over Likability: How Charles Hudson Built a 450-Company Portfolio
Episode Summary Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures has built one of the most ambitious solo GP models in venture capital: around 450 investments over the…
Day One®Elon Musk: Hero to Headcase
For a decade, Elon Musk was the face of the modern entrepreneur: a self-made billionaire who bet his fortune on impossible ideas and somehow made them work…
Day One®How Paul Rowsthorn Runs Airguides With an AI Co-Founder Named Amelia
When his co-founder announced she was going on maternity leave, Airguides co-founder Paul Rowsthorn realised he was about to lose the operational knowledge…
Day One®The Psychedelic Resurgence: From Counterculture to Clinical Breakthrough with Dr Michael Winlo
One in three people will experience a mental health disorder in their lifetime, PTSD went more than 20 years without a new approved treatment, and spending…
Day One®Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of
Eight guests into Building Tech Teams, one theme has shown up in every single episode: money. A principal software engineer who now manages a team of agents…
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The Buzzword That's Killing Your Pitch: Billy Chan on Alfred Travel
Pick My Brain is supported by our wonderful sponsors: Founders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get…
Day One®The Modern Approach to Scaling Your People Team with Hallie Condon,
Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup people and reward practices, with industry leaders from across the startup world…
Day One®We're afraid of the wrong thing in AI - with Paloma Newton
Paloma Newton is the founder of Elita, a longevity platform for dogs that combines biological testing, clinical history, and the changes owners notice day to…
Day One®Building with atoms and bits: 5 Founders Making Hard Tech in Australia | HEO, Alloy, Vexev, Zabidou, Antares
Five founders. Building with atoms and bits. Right at the heart of Australia. From robots that scan the human body to robots watching over satellites in space…
Day One®Why "The Number Is Never the Problem": Matt McFarlane, Founder of FNDN
Most companies treat compensation as a math problem: get the number right and the rest takes care of itself. Matt McFarlane says that’s backwards, and it’s the…
Day One®Why You Should Think Global From Day One: Ilana Elbaz on Deel
Pick My Brain is supported by our wonderful sponsors: Founders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get…
Day One®Darius Monsef – You're the Number One Consumer of Your Own Bullshit
Darius Monsef has built a colour-palette website that grew to millions of users, sold two companies, raised over $40 million for a paediatric healthcare…
Day One®Sidecars 101: Why Venture Funds Are Investing on the Side
Episode Summary Sidecars have gone mainstream. Once something mostly associated with larger venture funds, they’re now increasingly common in Australia, with…
Day One®Benjamin Plummer (Dragonfly Intelligence) on AI's Real Bottleneck, and Why He's Betting on Australia
Benjamin Plummer has one of the stranger CVs in Australian tech: nine years inside Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, building an AI lab…
Day One®HealthGPT and What Happens Now AI Is Table Stakes
A survey of more than 1,800 clinicians across 25 countries found 83% had already adopted AI before their workplace had any governance in place. Healthcare, it…
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How Do You Grow a Marketplace When Both Sides Are Slow? Ishan Dan on RegenX
Pick My Brain is supported by our wonderful sponsors: Founders scale faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, and get…
Day One®Why "Show Me Your Harness" Beats Any Coding Test: Adam Witanowski, AI Architect
Most technical interviews still ask a candidate to write a function on a whiteboard. Adam Witanowski says that question is already obsolete, and what should…
Day One®Kirstin Hunter – You're Spending 95% of Your Brain on the Wrong 5%
Kirstin Hunter has co-founded a super fund, run a startup accelerator, and now leads Australia's biggest crowdfunding platform. None of it was the plan.She…
Day One®Building A Company of AI Super Workers - Tracy St. Dic
Building a Company of AI Super Workers with Tracy St. Dic, Chief People & Talent Officer at Zapier Description: Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we…
Day One®Deel's COO on the AI Agent Writing Its Own Code
Dan Westgarth has spent 7 years helping build Deel from a contractor invoicing tool into one of the most valuable HR and payroll platforms in the world, and he…
Day One®The Junior Engineer Isn't Needed Anymore: Cloë Stanbridge, Talent Lead at Airtree
The junior engineer used to be the safe first hire. Cloë Stanbridge says AI just made that job disappear, and that's only the start of what's rewriting tech…
Day One®Jodie Imam - Sometimes You Don't Need a Rocket Ship. You Need a Tractor
If you've ever felt like you're not a "real" Founder because you're not chasing unicorn status, this episode is your permission slip to build differently.Jodie…
Day One®Eric Ries on What Investors Get Wrong About Governance
Episode Summary Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way, and the founder of IMVU and the Long-Term Stock Exchange. His new book…
Day One®Lucas Cantor: "I Don't Think Anybody Knows What AI Is"
Lucas Cantor has an unusual claim on the AI conversation. In 2019, Huawei asked him to finish Schubert's Unfinished Symphony using artificial intelligence, and…
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How Do You Sell Software to an Industry That Won't Change? Mitchell Baker on Claimstack
$320 billion flows through Australia's commercial construction industry every year — and far too much of it still moves on spreadsheets and re-keyed purchase…
Day One®How to Build AI Capability Without Chasing Every New Model, with Patrick McQuaid
Most organisations are asking which AI model they should use. Patrick McQuaid thinks that is the wrong conversation. Patrick is Group Head of Data, Analytics &…
Day One®Dom Pym – How To Build From Abundance, Even When You Have Nothing
If you've ever talked yourself out of reaching out to someone because they're "too successful to reply", this episode will change how you send your next…
Day One®The A$2.2B Myricx Bio Deal, AI's Healthcare Land Grab and Preventive Health
Novartis has agreed to acquire Myricx Bio for up to US$1.5 billion, approximately A$2.2 billion, in a major outcome for a UK biotech company with deep…
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Introducing What The Health with Emily Casey | Official Trailer
Five years of health innovation coverage, millions of reads, and a community of 11,000+.Now finally, What the Health has a podcast too — bringing the content…
Day One®The Discipline for Becoming a Great CPO with Adam Weber, Executive Coach to CEOs & C-Suite Leaders
Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup people and reward practices, with industry leaders from across the startup world…
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Introducing What The Health with Emily Casey | Official Teaser
Five years of health innovation coverage, millions of reads, and a community of 11,000+.Now finally, What the Health has a podcast too — bringing the content…
