People Building Businesses is a podcast from the team at YBF Ventures that tells the stories of the most interesting entrepreneurs and businesses in Australia. Every episode will leave you with nuggets of information to help you on your entrepreneurial journey. It covers origins, bootstrapping, marketing, scaling, recruiting, creating partnerships, securing investment, exiting and all the other steps along the way. A new podcast will be released monthly on all the podcast platforms as well a ...
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S3E6: Indigital's Mikaela Jade | People Building Businesses S03E06
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Listen to a conversation about the struggle of growing a business as an indigenous woman in Australia and how to overcome obstacles that can stand in the way. Mikaela Jade, CEO and founder of Indigital is the guest on this episode of the People Building Businesses podcast. Host, Jason Lim and Mikaela talk about how she went from a park ranger to a …
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S3E5: Honey Insurance's Richard Joffe | People Building Businesses S03E05
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A conversation about serial entrepreneurship and the rights and wrongs when finding the right idea or product. Richard Joffe, CEO and founder of Honey Insurance is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Richard talk about previous businesses, how to spot if you're going in the right direction or if you should ev…
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S3E4: Winitha Bonney OAM | People Building Businesses S03E04
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A conversation about diversity and inclusion and its importance in the workplace. Winitha Bonney OAM, YBF's first member of its Tech Diversity and Inclusion Council is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Winitha talk about how Winitha found her path on diversity and inclusion and how to create a positive cult…
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S3E3: Zeller's Ben Pfisterer | People Building Businesses S03E03
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A conversation about using experience to build the right team and business. Zeller CEO Ben Pfisterer is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Ben talk about how Ben managed to become CEO of one of the fastest growing fintech startups. The podcast was produced, shot and edited by James Moussa. See omnystudio.com…
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S3E2: Click MGMT's Grace Watkins | People Building Businesses S03E02
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A conversation about building a modern business from the ground up and tips on how to do it yourself. Click MGMT CEO Grace Watkins is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Grace talk about how Grace transitioned from the world of law to directing Click Management and representing the worlds biggest online gamin…
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S3E1: Dovetail's Nick Frandsen | People Building Businesses S03E01
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A conversation about budding founders and going head to head with big international competitors. Dovetail CEO Nick Frandsen is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Nick talk about how a seemingly typical childhood eventuated into entrepreneurship and the journey from dropping out of high school to Dovetail and…
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S2E14: Linktree's Alex Zaccaria | People Building Businesses S2E14
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A conversation about pioneering a business category, help from Alicia Keys and mental health. Linktree CEO Alex Zaccaria is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Alex talk about the origins of Linktree, gaining over 2 million users while it was a side hustle, a turning point involving Alicia Keys, the myth of g…
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S2E13: 86 400's Robert Bell | People Building Businesses S2E13
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A conversation about building a digital bank, taking risks and leadership. 86 400 CEO Robert Bell is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Robert speak about his diverse career path, growing into leadership roles, neo banks versus the traditional banks, why they built 86 400, how COVID-19 will affect the bankin…
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S2E12: KeepCup's Abigail Forsyth | People Building Businesses S2E12
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A conversation about reusable cups, circular economies and leading the fight for a sustainable future. KeepCup CEO Abigail Forsyth is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Abigail talk about founding KeepCup out of a Melbourne cafe, local production versus overseas, expanding the team to three countries, changi…
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S2E11: Who Gives A Crap's Simon Griffiths | People Building Businesses S2E11
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A conversation about the Australian company changing the toilet paper game for good. Who Gives A Crap CEO Simon Griffiths is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Host Jason Lim and Simon discuss his roots in not-for-profits, being one of three co-founders, failures along the way, supply chains, the craziness of COVID-19, social …
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S2E10: AiCULUS' Omaru Maruatona | People Building Businesses S2E10
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A conversation about cybersecurity and mitigating the risk around APIs. The guest on this episode of People Building Businesses is AiCULUS CEO and founder Omaru Maruatona. Omaru and our host Jason Lim speak about his early life in Botswana, his interest in AI and ML, starting a cybersecurity company, API security, the CyRise accelerator program, La…
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S2E9: Qwilr's Mark Tanner | People Building Businesses S2E9
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A conversation with the Australian company that has reimagined how we create online documents. The guest on this episode of People Building Businesses is Qwilr COO and co-founder Mark Tanner. Mark and our host Jason Lim speak about his early experience in startups, his time at Google, the early days of Qwilr, perfecting a SaaS product, raising mone…
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S2E8: Verve Super's Christina Hobbs | People Building Businesses S2E8
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A conversation with the CEO of Australia's first ethical superannuation fund for women, by women. The guest on this episode of People Building Businesses is Verve Super CEO and co-founder Christina Hobbs. Christina and our host Jason Lim covered a lot on this episode. The topics they spoke about include Christina's work with the UN in Syria and Tur…
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S2E7: Mr Yum's Kim Teo | People Building Businesses S2E7
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A conversation with a Melbourne startup that’s helping bars, cafes and restaurants stay alive in these uncertain times. Mr Yum's Kim Teo is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Our host Jason Lim (YBF Ventures) and Kim speak about her switch from corporate life to startups, a failed business, the experiment that Mr Yum grew from…
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S2E6: Birchal's Matt Vitale | People Building Businesses S2E6
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A conversation with the co-founder of an equity crowdfunding platform that allows everyone the opportunity to invest in Australian brands. Birchal's Matt Vitale is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Our host Jason Lim (YBF Ventures) and Matt speak about the impact of COVID-19 on investing, how Birchal has responded to the cris…
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S2E5: NEXL's Philipp Thurner | People Building Businesses S2E5
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A conversation with the founder of one of the leading legal technology startups in Australia. NEXL's Philipp Thurner is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Our host Jason Lim (YBF Ventures) and Philipp speak about his youth growing up in Austria, going from the customer service desk to the innovation team at a huge law firm, na…
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S2E4: Quantify Technology's Brett Savill | People Building Businesses S2E4
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Quantify Technology CEO Brett Savill is the guest on episode 18 of People Building Businesses, the podcast from the team at YBF Ventures. Quantify Technology is all about making buildings more intelligent. Their products automate homes, offices and buildings and provide the building blocks to enable a future in the rapidly growing Internet of Thing…
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S2E3: LUNA's Ronen Heine | People Building Businesses S2E3
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LUNA CEO and founder Ronen Heine is the latest guest on People Building Businesses, the podcast from YBF Ventures. Our host Jason Lim and Ronen chat about his love inventions, being a corporate lawyer, solo founding a company, the keys to good recruitment, a big reason why companies fail, innovation in big corporates, the future for LUNA and why mi…
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S2E2: Startup Victoria's Judy Anderson | People Building Businesses S2E2
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Startup Victoria CEO Judy Anderson is the latest guest on People Building Businesses, the podcast from YBF Ventures. Our host Jason Lim and Judy covered a lot of topics including her stint as a 7-year-old inventor, going to university to study entrepreneurship, working at Deloitte, taking over as CEO of StartupVic, the good and bad of the Victorian…
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S2E1: July's Athan Didaskalou | People Building Businesses S2E1
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July co-founder Athan Didaskalou is the first guest on the new season of People Building Businesses, the podcast from YBF Ventures. Our host Jason Lim and Athan talk about his parents' influence on him, Smith Street in the '90s, his various businesses, starting July, securing $10.5million in funding, working in physical and digital retail and much …
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S1E14: Startupbootcamp's Ruud Hendriks | People Building Businesses S1E14
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Tech trends for 2020 and the growth of a global startup accelerator program are covered on this podcast. Startupbootcamp co-founder Ruud Hendriks is the guest of episode 14 of People Building Businesses. Our host Jason Lim and Ruud talk about his pirate radio days on Radio Caroline, launching commercial radio stations in Europe, his involvement in …
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S1E13: Weploy's Tony Wu | People Building Businesses S1E13
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Find out more about the Australian startup disrupting the way companies recruit talent. Weploy CEO and co-founder Tony Wu is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Tony and host Jason Lim cover a whole range of topics; jiu-jitsu, sacrifices his parents made for him, starting the company in a toilet showroom, hiring top talent, usi…
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S1E12: LVLY's Hannah Spilva | People Building Businesses S1E12
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Find out the full story behind the fastest growing gift delivery startup in Australia. LVLY co-founder Hannah Spilva is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Hannah and host Jason Lim discuss topics like bootstrapping, co-founder relationships, digital marketing strategies, how to do customer service right, looking for investment…
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S1E11: Pause Fest's George Hedon | People Building Businesses S1E11
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How did George Hedon build Pause Fest into one of the biggest festivals in Australia? We find out in this episode of People Building Businesses. George is the CEO and founder of Pause Fest and he tells us about growing up in Serbia, his career in design, the first days of the festival, the mechanics behind running it, how he handles stress and he r…
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S1E10: Josef's Tom Dreyfus | People Building Businesses S1E10
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A fascinating insight into securing startup investment and innovating legal technology with Josef co-founder and CEO Tom Dreyfus. This is episode 10 of People Building Businesses. Founded in 2017, Josef is a platform that empowers lawyers to easily build and launch their own legal bots and their mission is to create a legal industry that works for …
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S1E9: Designerex's Kirsten Kore | People Building Businesses S1E9
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Meet the Australian startup that has become a world leader in peer-to-peer designer dress lending. Kirsten Kore, co-founder of Designerex, is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Founded in 2015, Designerex is a peer-to-peer designer dress lending platform that has exploded in popularity. It has grown to 12,000 listed items in A…
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S1E8: Omny Studio's Sharon Taylor | People Building Businesses S1E8
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Sharon Taylor, Managing Director and former CEO of Omny Studio, is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. In 2019, Omny Studio was acquired by global audio tech company Triton Digital. Sharon tells us the story of the company from 2011 to now, and how they navigated numerous challenges along the way to become a major player in the…
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S1E7: YBF Ventures' Farley Blackman | People Building Businesses S1E7
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Farley Blackman, the CEO of YBF Ventures, is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Farley has worked in senior management roles in huge companies like GE, Motorola and BP. He took over as CEO of YBF in October 2017 and has overseen huge growth in the past two years with expansion in Melbourne and Sydney. He tells us his story fro…
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S1E6: Work180's Valeria Ignatieva | People Building Businesses S1E6
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Valeria Ignatieva, the co-founder and co-CEO of Work180, is the guest on People Building Businesses this week. WORK180 is the only jobs platform that pre-screens employers to see how well they support women’s careers. The criteria includes paid parental leave, pay equity, flexible working arrangements, employee engagement scores, and all the other …
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S1E5: Up Bank's Dom Pym | People Building Businesses S1E5
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Dom Pym, the co-founder of Up Bank, is the guest on People Building Businesses this week. Up is Australia's first next generation bank and the latest figures published say they have gained 100,000 customers since its launch in October 2018. That makes one of the fastest growing digital banks in the world. In this episode, Dom talks about the growth…
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S1E4: Mingle Seasoning's Jordyn Evans | People Building Businesses S1E4
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Jordyn Evans, the founder of Mingle Seasoning, is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. Mingle is one of the most exciting food products through its online success and its availability in stores across Australia including supermarket giants Coles. In this episode, Jordyn talks about the early 'Breaking Bad' style days creating th…
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S1E3: Square's Ben Pfisterer | People Building Businesses S1E3
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This week’s guest is Square’s head of APAC Ben Pfisterer. Ben has a hugely impressive career history with roles in Deloitte, Jetstar, NAB and Visa before starting his own company Kinetik Innovation. He moved to Square in 2014 and has overseen its huge growth ever since. The podcast covers his early career with Jetstar and the other corporates, movi…
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S1E1: Code Like A Girl's Ally Watson | People Building Businesses S1E1
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Code Like A Girl CEO and co-founder Ally Watson is our guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. With a background in computer science, Ally embarked on a career as a software engineer and developer before founding social enterprise Code Like A Girl in 2015. Code Like a Girl is best known for running coding workshops for girls aged betwe…
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S1E2: VendorPanel's James Leathem | People Building Businesses S1E2
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James Leathem, the founder of VendorPanel, is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. His honesty and transparency in this interview is remarkable and we thinks there's something in it for everyone. VendorPanel is a leading Australian procurement platform. It was named one of the Top 20 Westpac Businesses of Tomorrow in 2018, and r…
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S1Introducing... People Building Businesses by YBF Ventures
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People Building Businesses is the brand new podcast from the team at YBF Ventures. The podcast will focus on how startups and companies grow. From the first days of the business, to looking for investment, scaling, recruitment and beyond. We want to know exactly how it’s done from people who have done it. We have an amazing line-up of guests coming…
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