In this episode of Open The Pod Bay Doors, Host Ian Gardiner is joined by Chris Morgan, Co-CEO of Oxygen Advisors, a fast-growing outsourced CFO service supporting early-stage tech startups across Australasia. Chris shares the story of how Oxygen grew from a one-man band in New Zealand to a 45-person team, helping more than 100 startups scale and raise capital.

In this special live edition of Open The Pod Bay Doors, Ian sits down with independent MP Allegra Spender in front of a live audience at Jelix Ventures.

For this episode of Open the Pod Bay Doors host, Ian Gardiner, is joined by Rob Sibo, Head of AI/ML Customer Engineering ANZ, Google.

Welcome to The Founders Blueprint—Innovation Bay’s brand-new podcast, where we break down the journey of building and scaling great companies. From the highs to the lows and everything in between, we uncover the real stories behind entrepreneurial success.

Open the Pod Bay Doors is back for 2025!

To kick off the year, host Ian Gardiner sits down with Stuart Dullard, Partner at Ashurst, for a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities facing founders in today’s venture landscape.

After a brief hiatus, Open the Pod Bay Door is back with an exciting new episode! Host Ian Gardiner sits down with Bryan Williams, Founder of Hockey Stick Advisory, to dive into the world of strategic partnerships and growth acceleration.

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.