

The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal
Founded 6.5+ years ago by Vidit Agarwal, The High Flyers Podcast is a global top ranked show exploring the personal and professional journeys behind the most relatable role models shaping our world. Enjoy 275+ in-depth (and often rare) conversations with the world’s most influential and relatable role models in business, tech, finance, government and sport -- going beyond the headlines to explore their life and work including their formative years, inflection points, industry insights, and how they think, lead and build. Episodes are listened to by CEOs, C-Suite Executives, Investors, Founders, and Government Leaders across Australia, USA, India, UK, Singapore, Canada and New Zealand. Alongside the podcast, we host an annual High Flyers Growth Summit in Sydney and San Francisco. This podcast is one of five products under our parent company, Curiosity Centre. We're proud that more than 60% of our 275+ guests have trusted us for their first-ever public interview — or to go in-depth on their personal story for the first time. These include: Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister of Australia), Jason Collins (CEO, BlackRock, Asia Pacific), Brad Banducci (CEO, Woolworths), Keith Rabois (MD, Khosla Ventures), Aleks Spaseska (CEO, Kmart), Michael Schneider (CEO, Bunnings), Elena Verna (Head of Growth, Lovable), David Haber (a16z Partner), David Schneider (Growth Fund Co-Lead Partner, Cotaue), Vandita Pant (CFO, BHP), Jodie Auster (Uber's Global Head of Travel), Shiv Rao (CEO, Abridge), Ryan Beiermeister (Partner, Founders Fund), Jesse Zhag (CEO, Decagon), Rob Giglio (CCO, Canva), Gautam Chari (Head of Capital Commitments, Bank of America), Mel Silva (Managing Director, Google), Jean-Michel Limieux (CTO, Shopify and Atlassian), David Eckstein (CFO, Legora), Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta), John Haddock (CBO, Harvey), Mark Suster (Partner, Upfront Ventures), Niki Scevak (Partner, Blackbird), Craig Tiley (CEO, USA Tennis), Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel), Paul Bassat (Partner, Square Peg), Bowen Pan (Creator, Facebook Marketplace), Sam Sicilia (CIO, Hostplus), Jack Zhang (CEO, Airwallex), Tim Doyle (CEO, Eucalyptus), Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (CEO, Xero), Sanjeev Gandhi (CEO, Orica), Philip Green (Australia's Ambassador to India), Vivek Bhatia (CEO, MUFG), Cristina Cordova (COO, Linear) and more. Engage with us via: Email: [email protected] Website: https://highflyerspodcast.com X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/vidags10 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehighflyers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehighflyerspodcast/ Follow us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Episodes


Part 3 of #3 series: Unpack DAO Under, how web3 is bringing a new spin to community across Asia Pacific w Abhi Maran + Ange Ching

Alan Jones: Dreamer parents, birth of the internet + being 2nd employee for Yahoo, founder coaching advice & scaling M8 ventures

Part 2 of #3 series: Inside the future of decentralised finance w Josh Reyes, co-founder @ Minke

Part 1 of #3 series: Inside NFTs, how cute pics took over the world w String Nguyen, co-founder @ Chubbiverse

Investment memo: "Athletic Ventures", how elite professional athletes unlock value as investors

#80 Bill Bartee (Rare Public Interview): Growing up around NASA to Co-Founding Southern Cross, Blackbird & Main Sequence Ventures

Investment memo: "Journalist at the Financial Review", how news operates

Matt Allen: Sydney's western suburbs upbringing, how revenue based financing works, 3 use cases & differences vs VC + hall of fame investors!

Rachael Neumann: Being a social chameleon growing up in New York, medicine morphing into business, building the live event online ticketing biz in Australia, investing in the next tech startup

Curiosity: Inside Character + Distinction & Protagonist Capital - Creating connection for your biz & investing in protagonists w Kate Dinon

Ed McManus: Behind the scenes of childhood in Ireland to PHD qualified biochemist, leading Deliveroo in Aus, amateur bee keeper, structured exec education & being generalist

Investment memo: "Letter of Intent", How anonymity created a newsletter growth engine read by thousands daily!

Adrian Petersen: Deep seeded professional athlete ambitions in Tennis & Cycling to co-founding AfterWork Ventures, and how they're doing things a little different

Mac Conwell: Loosing his dad and being homeless to creating Rare Breed Ventures through 1100 Twitter meetings, unpacking how he learnt Venture Capital + startups in Africa & Pakistan

Michelle Wade: From small town to growing trade, investment & education between Australia and India, Italy, Malaysia & Spain + Managing the $45M covid relief fund

Curiosity: Inside startups 360 - Scaling stripe from 8 to 30 people in 12 mths, mentoring early stage founders + angel investing w Tom Richardson, Head of Startups @ Stripe

$69 Jaddan Comerford: Inspired by dad and starting music record label at age 17 to $20M Unified Music Group today, how monetisation and artist model works & unpacking spotify

Investment memo: "The Mintable", the empowerment platform where the best people managers come to succeed; built for managers by managers.

#67 Blackbird's Niki Scevak: Zero to one, Courageous ambition, Dandelions and Orchids + secrets to be supremely well read
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