The Good Money Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Join our host Ryan Edwards-Pritchard the Founder & CEO of Cape who he brings our listeners up close and personal with founders and finance leaders from some of the world’s most exciting, fastest-growing startups and scaleups that are changing the way we all live, learn, shop, work, eat and rest. In this podcast, we shine a light on how finance is another key driver in unlocking growth - just as vital as sales and marketing. As well as exploring insights that help founders, finance teams & CFOs develop themselves & their companies by understanding how modern financial management helps everyone
In this episode of The Good money we interview Ben Watiwat, VP of Finance at Immutable, who talks about the best strategies as a CFO to create and execute a clear treasury management strategy. As well as his thoughts on the use cases of Generative AI and specifically ChatGPT as part of that toolkit.
In this episode, Ryan interviews Daniel Flynn.
Daniel Flynn is the co-founder and managing director of one of Australia’s most successful startups, Thankyou.
He co-founded Thankyou at the age of 19 and now has products stocked by major retailers all over Australia, with every product helping end global poverty.
It’s been a wild startup journey. Overcoming one of the most challenging and saturated sectors, to now have over 50 successful products sold Australia-wide with $17.4 million raised for extreme poverty that goes straight to their partners.
Ryan and Daniel dive into the primary purpose and journey of Thankyou, an organisation tackling social problems and improving our communities.
On this month’s Good Money we have John Toth, CFO at Koala. We talk about his playbook for internationalising, John’s observations of the challenging startup environment we’re currently facing and why a strong finance function is key to realising a brand’s sustainability mission.
On this month’s Good Money we have Phil Halbish, CFO at Who Gives A Crap. We talk about what it’s like being a first-time CFO at a scale-up, the secrets to building entrepreneurial finance teams, and how to harness purpose and impact to drive employee engagement.
Our guest this month on the Good Money podcast is Sally Bruce, CFO of Culture Amp, helping you with employee engagement, performance and giving you the development tools and insights you need to build a category-defining culture. We spoke to Sally about goal setting, getting CFOs to act and behave like CEOs, diversity correlation, and driving inclusion for women in your workforce.
Hear Alexey talk about how Eucalyptus is leveraging his experience to build an incredible startup, where he finds opportunities to integrate and automate his processes, which tech tools he’d advise any CFO to invest into.
On this month's Good Money we have Ben Watiwat, VP Finance & Operations at InDebted. We talk about fast growth scaleups, building out financial operations from scratch, how to cut wasteful spending, and winning the ‘war for talent’ with a remote-first 4-day work week.
On this month's Good Money we have Alexi Boyd, CEO of the Council of Small Business Association (aka COSBOA). We discuss her time leading the charge in defence of small businesses, her life in radio, and championing small businesses against the big banks.
On this month's Good Money we have Nathan Chadwick, CFO at Airtasker – the trusted community platform that connects people who need to outsource tasks and find local services, which started in Sydney and is now going global. We talk about why sports (in Nathan’s case AFL) can be a great grounding for a successful corporate career, knowing when to cut your burn rate, pivoting during the global pandemic, the transition to listed company life and making your first international acquisition.
Our guest this month on the Good Money podcast is Chen Wang, CFO of Car Next Door, the car-sharing startup that connects rented cars to drivers across Australia. We spoke to Chen about his career, running a car-sharing business during a pandemic, how he approaches money from a business perspective, and what kept him and Car Next Door going for the past 18 months.
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Moving from startup land to VC, Tom Humphrey is building out a new function at Blackbird, one of the most prolific APAC VCs. He details the struggle of bootstrapping startups and also where he feels the next wave of tech investment lies.
The Good Money Podcast brought to you by Cape; an Australian neobank Background on Tom Tom’s background spans across operational executive, entrepreneur and more recently an investor and advisor to a number of startups. Tom’s journey to becoming a partner at Blackbird might look like a familiar one having gone down the classic career path of management consulting and later in his career gaining an MBA.
Tom spent many years in Silicon Valley, where he built out Canopy, that was later acquired. Prior to Canopy, Tom was an Operations Executive of one of the original pre-Groupon discount stores in Ourdeal.com back in 2010. Over a 12 month period he was with the company as they scaled from a handful of staff to over 85, from and from 0 revenue to $25 million. As they went into hyper growth they exited to a joint venture between channel 10 and newscorp Fair to say that a 1 year timeline to exit is not so common! We had the chance to chat to him about his past experiences.
Who are Blackbird? Founded in 2012, now 35 people, Blackbird are one of the APAC regions most prolific technology VCs. Their most recent $650million fund is sector agnostic, heavily investing into a wide range of Australian and New Zealand based startups. Tom recounts the story of how they raised from tech founders for the first fund. They were one of the first $250k cheques into Canva, as well as others such as Xoox, Safetyculture, CultureAmp, to name but a few. That’s a lot of unicorns to be supported by one fund!