Michael Batko, CEO of Startmate is head one of the biggest and most successful accelerator programmes in Australia. 

In this episode, we kicked off by talking about:

• Michael's journey from his education to him moving from Europe to work in Australia  with startups like Expert360 & MadPaws, to currently serve as the CEO of Startmate

• Michael also shares some of his guiding principles in the form Operating Systems which he has developed over the years which he applies into solving problems

• We went a little deeper on  and discussed principles that you could use to reverse engineer luck and increase one's 'Surface Area'

• And ended with some of the Covid-19 impacts on the startup scene