Our guest this week is Nick Crocker who is a General Partner at Blackbird Ventures, one of Australia’s largest and most successful venture firms.

He is an investor in a string of flourishing startups including Culture Amp, Applied, Eucalyptus, Dovetail, and Beyond Ag.

Nick knows the world of venture capital well, having co-founded one of the first companies that Blackbird funded called Sessions. As co-founder and CEO of Sessions, Nick was dedicated to creating technology to help people live better, healthier lives. Sessions was acquired by MyFitnessPal 2013 which itself was acquired by Under Armour in 2015, with Nick proceeding into the role of Chief of Staff for their entire Connected Fitness business.

On the side, Nick co-founded We Are Hunted which was acquired by Twitter in 2013. Returning to Australia from Silicon Valley, Nick was the inaugural CEO of accelerator Startmate before handing the CEO baton to our previous podcast guest Michael Batko.

Nick is endlessly curious and while studying Political Science and Law at the University of Queensland, he worked as a journalist with News Ltd. His love of writing if evident in his fascinating substack newsletter and while he knows lots about integrated hardware/software products, he never wants to limit the types of founders he connects with in case he misses the next one who absolutely inspires him. And somehow, he manages to do all this while being a role model as a husband and father.

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