In today’s episode, we’re thrilled to welcome Taryn Pieterse, Partner at Rampersand VC. Rampersand is a pioneering Australian venture capital firm, known for being one of the first funds in Australia and its early investment in founders with abnormal potential.

Join our host Ian Gardiner as he chats to Nick Gainsley, Partner at One Ventures and Aurora Community Member, on episode 183 of Open the Pod Bay Doors.

Live from the floor of Inspire, host Ian Gardiner talked to three of Australia’s leading minds in tech and innovation on what the future of the startup landscape looks like.

At Inspire, Ian Gardiner sat down with some of our incredible speakers to see how they’re thinking about the evolution of the Aussie tech landscape.

Our guest for episode 180 is Scott Thomson, Head of Innovation, Customer Engineering at Google. In Scott’s words – he helps customers across the world with their innovation challenges.

Join us for part 2 of our “studio on the road” at Sunrise, Blackbird’s annual festival of the startup ecosystem.

Ian took the studio on the road for Sunrise 24. For Part 1 of this episode series, Ian chats to Adam Gilmour, Kristen Durham, Tova Angsuwat, Bronwen Clune

Our guest for episode 176 is Clive Burcham, a highly influential, philanthropic and impact driven individual. Clive is one of the founding partners of Global Citizen, $46bn New York based juggernaut whose mission is to end extreme poverty. He is also the founder of what he terms a “side hustle” called Compadres, where he works with founders and CEOs to help them achieve “a better life, a better business, a better you”. 

Our guest this week is Leah Kaplan, APAC Sustainability Business Lead at Google Cloud. Leah’s passion for sustainability stems from her deep love of nature. Leah held a number of consulting technology roles before her dream job came up at Google Cloud – where she now sits at the nexus of technology and sustainability. 

Our guest this week is Bernadette Olivier, CEO & Co-Founder of The Volte – a groundbreaking peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace that’s redefining the way we experience fashion globally.

Olympia Yarger is an incredibly resilient, dedicated, inspiring and super hands-on Founder & CEO of Goterra, a waste management technology company that uses autonomous robotic systems to process food waste using insects.

Our guest for episode 172 is Tom Amos, CEO and Co-Founder of Sidekicker – a platform that matches thousands of businesses to pre-qualified temporary staff.