Founder stories, key themes, and life lessons from the show.
Stephen Wools took the Ballers Clubhouse concept to a Funlab founder for advice. He got one sentence back, and a phone call ten minutes later.
Read article →Stephen Wools spent years wondering why investors passed on his ideas. The answer was risk, and he was only ever bringing them a cup of optimism.
Read article →Stephen Wools built the businesses and renovated the house. Now he is selling it. His third life lesson is about knowing when enough is enough.
Read article →Nick Maxwell got one yellow light in a performance review. The feedback behind it changed how he handles every problem he wants to solve immediately.
Read article →In sport, winning is a scoreboard and a song. In business it can take six years. Nick Maxwell on chasing one per cent and naming the small wins.
Read article →A casual barista told Nick Maxwell he just makes the coffees. What Nick said next is the whole job of connecting someone's role to the outcome.
Read article →Shane Chanel started the licence process to build a digital bank, then walked away from it. Yondr never became a bank, and he says he never wanted to be one.
Read article →Shane Chanel was not looking for an idea. A group of fintech Founders kept complaining about the same things at breakfast, so they covered a wall with them.
Read article →An investor who had just come on board attempted a hostile takeover of Shane Chanel's business. His advisors had warned him. He did not want to upset them.
Read article →Five clinics, 100 staff, and a revenue assumption that was out by $61 a visit.
Read article →One number, ten weeks, and a weekly check on whether the work moved it.
Read article →Two exits, earnouts, tax, and a financial planner with bad news.
Read article →How it works, who it's for, and the Revolut investments that minted millionaires.
Read article →Why the co-founder relationship is like a marriage, how it breaks down, and how to leave well.
Read article →The VC leaderboard so bad it was shut down - and Kirstin Hunter's blunt fix.
Read article →Tractor Ventures' Jodie Imam explains the funding model for the tractors, not the rockets.
Read article →Street teams, a $5 Doritos prank from Airtasker, and the Gumtree hack that unlocked the flywheel.
Read article →Free universal childcare with a radical twist, and deleting the R&D tax incentive entirely.
Read article →The Bendigo Bank tender: supreme confidence, a live demo, and the integrations IBM said were impossible.
Read article →The cold outreach that actually reached one of Australia's most generous Founders.
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