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Day One®Why AI Can't Replace Marketing Strategy - with LinkedIn's Robin O'Connell
Robin O'Connell spends his days inside LinkedIn's marketing and advertising team in Australia, working with founders and brands on content strategy - which…
Day One®Are Your People More Productive or Just Faster? Claudia Barriga-Larriviere, Startup Flamingo
Every great team she has ever seen shares one trait: they are comfortable with discomfort. Claudia Barriga-Larriviere has spent nearly 20 years building people…
Day One®What Makes a Founder Worth Backing at Pre-Seed? With Ilana Elbaz | GTM at Deel
Episode Summary Ilana Elbaz was employee number five and the first go-to-market hire at Deel, helping scale the company from its early pivots through…
Day One®"The SaaS Apocalypse Is A Myth" with Freddie McKenzie, Co-Founder & CEO of Manifest
Freddie McKenzie is the co-founder and CEO of Manifest, an AI platform that helps creative and marketing agencies capture the real value of their work without…
Day One®From a Secondhand Desk to a $120M Exit: Mark Samlal's Story
Mark Samlal grew up as one of the only Indian families in a small Perth township, went on to co-found a payroll company from a secondhand desk in Singapore…
Day One®John Fry: building Australia's first missile factory in the Hunter
Australia is about to build guided missiles for the first time — and Kongsberg is doing it at Williamtown, in the Hunter. John Fry, Managing Director of…
Day One®AI Can’t Replace Domain Expertise — Nathan Hill, Head of Telco at AWS
The business wants AI, and it wants it yesterday. But once the proof of concept works and the partner goes home, someone inside the company has to keep the…
Day One®All The Ways You're Building or Breaking Your Credibility
Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup people and pay practices with industry leaders from across the startup world. ---…
Day One®Mira Murati, the Quiet Superpower in the AI Race
Welcome to the first ever episode of AI Icons, a new thing I'm launching on the show. Here's the idea: the people reshaping tech have stories more entertaining…
Day One®What's Your Moat When AI Can Copy Your Product in 48 Hours? | Dilip Jacob from Pitchberry
Dilip Jacob is the solo founder and CEO of Pitchberry, an AI platform that helps people in high-stakes professions practice the conversations their careers…
Day One®Guardrails Are Just Suggestions: Securing AI Agents with Okta's Kevin Akermanis
The business wants AI now. The people who have to secure it are being told to move faster while their budgets shrink. Kevin Akermanis, Solutions Architect at…
Day One®Why Australia Builds More Unicorns per Dollar Than Anyone (Replay) | Ben Grabiner, Side Stage Ventures
Side Stage Ventures and Dealroom have just released the 2026 edition of their landmark report on Australian venture. Grab your copy of the Australia Venture &…
Day One®The HR Leader That Brings Therapy to Work with Isidora Torres, VP of People at Beehiiv
Description: Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup people and compensation practices with industry leaders from across…
Day One®How AI Models Are Really Judged, with Peter Gostev (Arena / LMArena)
Peter Gostev is head of AI capabilities at Arena (LMArena), the community-based platform where millions of real people vote in blind tests to rank AI models…
Day One®Taryn Williams: Building and Exiting 6 Companies and the Cost No One Talks About, where humans sit in the creator economy and AI Slop
Taryn Williams started her first company, Wink Models, at 21 with $30,000 and no roadmap. She didn't stop there. Over the next two decades she built and ran a…
Day One®Why Your First Hire Isn't an Engineer Anymore — Michael Batko, ex-Startmate CEO
The first hire used to be an engineer. Michael Batko thinks that's now backwards — and that's just the start of how AI is rewiring the way you build a tech…
Day One®Inside ElevenLabs: Voice AI, Cloning Ethics, and the End of the Call Centre?
Damian Naughton is the General Manager of ANZ at ElevenLabs, the voice AI company now past US$500 million in ARR, just four years after its 2022 founding…
Day One®The Four-Quadrant Framework Every Solo Founder Needs | Neel Bhattacharya from LeadTrackAI
Neel Bhattacharya is the founder of LeadTrackAI, a platform built to solve one of the most common and costly problems in sales: leads that go cold because…
Day One®How to Think About M&A as a Startup with Alex Feldman
Episode Summary Alex Feldman is the founder of Tiger and Bear, an M&A advisory focused on tech and services businesses. Before that, he was Chief Strategy…
Day One®"AI Should Bring Us Closer Together, Not Make Us More Lonely" with Akshay Kothari Co-Founder of Notion
Akshay Kothari is the COO and co-founder of Notion, the workspace platform now used by over a hundred million people. Before Notion, he co-founded Pulse, the…
Day One®She Lost the Company She Built — Not Herself: Yas Grigaliunas (Part 2)
She raised $4 million just before Christmas, moved out of her marital home inside sixty days, and came back from a two-week break to find an interim CEO…
Day One®Inside HEO: Australia’s Secret Space Camera Company | Hiranya Jayakody, Steve Baxter, Jessy Wu
HEO co-founder and CTO Dr Hiranya Jayakody (HJ) started out trying to mine asteroids. Instead, he and co-founder Will Crowe built a way to photograph…
Day One®How Shapes is Building for the HR Role of the Future with Shani Brisilovsky, AI Product Lead at Shapes
Description: Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup compensation with industry leaders from across the startup world. In…
Day One®The App Built to Stop Image-Based Abuse | Chris Fresle from Just Us
Most people think private messaging is already solved. Chris Fresle is proof it isn't. Chris Fresle is the founder of Just Us, a private messaging app built to…
Day One®How to Think About Equity as a Startup Employee
Episode Summary Alexey Mitko is a partner at Co-Ventures, the architect behind Eucalyptus' ESOP plan, and widely known in the Australian ecosystem as "ESOP…
Day One®The Part No One Tells - WBGS Yas Grigaliunas (Part 1)
Yas Grigaliunas turned a backyard charity garage sale into Circonomy, one of Australia's most recognised circular-economy companies — years before "circular…
Day One®Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's Largest Bank with Blair Hudson
This is a #paidpartnership with Commonwealth Bank Episode Summary Blair is the Chief Engineer of Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank, overseeing nine to ten…
Day One®One List Every Head of People Needs Before Their CEO Says to Use AI with Ben Langer, Global HR Executive
Description: Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup compensation with industry leaders from across the startup world. In…
Day One®You Can. But Should You? | AI and Ethics with Dr Simon Longstaff
"Can does not imply should." That one line from Dr Simon Longstaff cuts to the heart of everything wrong with how the tech industry is currently building AI…
Day One®How to Price Your Business So You Actually Take Home Enough | Quinnie Chen from Profit Plainly
Quinnie Chen is the founder of Profit Plainly, a web app built for solo founders and freelancers who have no finance team, no CFO, and no clear picture of…
Day One®Learn how to use AI at its exponential with Anthropic's Head of Platform Engineering
Episode Summary When Katelyn Lesse was leading engineering at Stripe, she noticed everything around her shifting because of AI. So she left, and joined…
Day One®How to Pick Pre-Seed Winners Before There's Any Data
Episode Summary In this 101 episode, Cheryl and Maxine go deep on the fundamentals of pre-seed investing, from how the stage came to exist to why the perceived…
Day One®The Wellbeing Strategy for Any Stage of Company with Phil Wolf, Founder at Connects Health
Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup compensation with industry leaders from across the startup world. In our…
Day One®What AI Is Actually Changing in Cyber and How to Keep Up
Episode Summary Every role in cybersecurity is changing fast, but most practitioners are still treating AI like a glorified search engine. In this solo episode…
Day One®From Police Officer to AI Pioneer to Psychedelics: Dr. Catriona Wallace’s Unfiltered Story (Part Two)
From policing the streets of Sydney’s King’s Cross to founding one of the world's first enterprise AI companies, Dr. Catriona Wallace has navigated a career…
Day One®The 4 Things Every Investor Wants to Hear in Your Pitch (Replay Ep)
Tap, beep, done. Australia’s payment experience is one of the world’s most convenient, but also one of the most expensive. Small businesses lose thousands a…
Day One®How to Build a Side Project That Goes Global Before You Graduate with Anna and Viv from Toastie
Episode Summary Anna Zhou and Vivian Shen, the co-founders of Toastie, join Georgie Healy for one of the warmest and most personal conversations the show has…
Day One®Closing the Gender Investment Gap with Data with Noga Edelstein
Episode Summary Noga Edelstein is the lead of the Equity Clear initiative, a not-for-profit effort to get Australian investors tracking pipeline diversity data…
Day One®The HR Infrastructure Gap No One Is Talking About with Jessie Schofer, Founder at Stakkd
Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup compensation with industry leaders from across the startup world. In our…
Day One®The New Rules of Design (with Andrew Hogan | Head of Insight at Figma)
"Code is getting cheaper. Which means taste is getting more expensive." That one idea from Andrew Hogan reframes everything people think they know about…
Day One®From Police Officer to AI Pioneer to Psychedelics: Dr. Catriona Wallace’s Unfiltered Story (Part One)
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey From policing the streets of Sydney’s…
Day One®How Dam Secure Puts Guardrails on AI Generated Code
Episode Summary Vibe coding is here and most organisations are nowhere near ready for what it means for security. In this episode of Secured, Cole Cornford…
Day One®Why Investors Keep Saying No (And What to Do About It) | Justin Wastnage from Vloggi
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Justin Wastnage is the founder and CEO of…
Day One®How Springboards Built an AI Model That Actually Thinks Differently
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey "Shit at the speed of light is still shit."…
Day One®How to Build a Global Pre-Seed Fund from Scratch
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Episode Summary Elizabeth Yin is the…
Day One®This Company’s Compensation Cycle Takes Five Minutes with Rowan Savage
Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup compensation with industry leaders from across the startup world. In our…
Day One®(Replay Episode) Breaking Barriers: How Sam Fariborz Navigated the Aussie Cybersecurity Landscape
Episode Summary When Sam Fariborz moved to Australia from Iran, she had been working as an IT manager. While she had plenty of experience and strong technical…
Day One®How to Stop Your AI Agents From Breaking with Josh Clemm, VP of Engineering at Dropbox
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Josh Clemm, VP of Engineering at Dropbox…
Day One®The Lazy Sales Tactic That's Hurting Your Business | Ben King from Aviato Consulting
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Ben King is the founder and CEO of Aviato…
Day One®Autonomous Healthcare: How Everlab is Building AI Doctors
Marc Hermann's dad died of a heart attack in his mid-forties. Fit, healthy, no warning signs. Then a doctor told him 99% of heart disease is preventable. We…
Day One®Steal Big Tech's Playbook For The Worlds Best Comp Practices
Welcome back to the FNDN Series. In this episode, we sit down with Arif Ender, Director of Compensation at Palo Alto Networks and former compensation leader at…
Day One®How to Build Distribution Before You Build the Product with Frank Greeff from Kinso (Replay Ep)
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Frank Greeff, the founder behind a $180M…
Day One®What the ISM AI Update Actually Means for Cyber Teams
Episode Summary The ISM has been updated again, and this time AI is front and centre. In this episode of Secured, Cole Cornford is joined by returning guest…
Day One®(Replay Ep) Leading Change in Cybersecurity: Tara Whitehead’s Approach to Security Engagement
Episode Summary Tara Whitehead is Security Engagement Manager at MYOB. Prior to becoming a cybersecurity specialist, Tara had an eclectic career, including…
Day One®Everything You Know About Paying Fairly is Wrong | With What Pay Costs' Author James Seechurn
Welcome back to the FNDN Series, where we continue our deep dive into startup compensation with industry leaders from across the startup world. In our…
Day One®The Right and Wrong Way to Use AI Agents in Customer Service with Jason Maynard, CTO of Zendesk
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Jason Maynard, CTO of Zendesk, joins…
Day One®Can Crypto Be the Future of Finance?
For most people, crypto is still a speculative asset. Something you buy in the hope that it increases in value. But advocates argue that crypto is much more…
Day One®How to Turn Happy Customers Into Your Best Sales Channel
Win $2,000 in credits with the Day One Network — take our 2-minute audience survey before 30 June: dayone.fm/survey Most founders who've tried PR will tell you…