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Before Sian Priest was helping deep tech founders tell better stories at Cicada Innovations, one of the games she created as a 2000s gaming founder ended up being played by President Obama at the White House science fair.
This week on episode 64 of Startup 360, Majella’s away, so Simon sits down with Sian to talk about startups, deep tech, Silicon Valley self-belief, and why Australia needs to get better at celebrating founders building something more enduring than the next unicorn pitch deck.
Her startup career has taken her from the UK - Manchester-born, she’s red, not blue - to San Francisco and since 2016, thanks to Neighbours and a Sydney bloke, Australia.
She remembers what Silicon Valley taught her: people back themselves.That “don’t wait for permission” mindset is something Australian and British founders can still learn from, especially in a culture where, as Simon jokes, too many people still politely line up for the bus.
Sian also has some blunt advice for founders, especially in deep tech: stop assuming people already understand the problem - it’s rarely just technical. Founders need to get better at explaining why it matters to different audiences so they start to care.
She also makes the case for celebrating different types of founders. Not every startup has to be a 100x VC-backed rocket ship. Some will be strong, enduring, medium-sized companies. Others will bootstrap, generating revenue from the start.
They all matter.
A slow-moving tanker can be just as valuable as a rocket ship, she says. As Simon quips, everyone loves a moonshot, but low Earth orbit still has its place.
And in breaking news: after 5.5 years at Cicada Innovations, Sian’s left left her job, just as the Tech23 cohort were announced, to address the nagging sense that her inner founder wants another shot - she ends the show talking about how she wants to team up with someone tackling a “gnarly problem” so she can help solve it.
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Startup 360 hit the road for episode 63, recording in front of a studio audience for the first time from Growth Summit Sydney.
Simon and Majella’s guest was Ben Grabiner from Side Stage Ventures, taking them through the findings of the Australia Venture & Startup Report 2026 , which looked at the past decade of the local VC-backed ecosystem.It’s now grown 13.7 times faster than any other major global hub, creating more $10 billion companies per dollar invested than anywhere else in the world.
But amid the success there are still challenges, and the conversation took place just as the federal government released its startups consultation paper in response to concerns about the impact of capital gains tax changes to the ecosystem.
Ben talked about tackling Australia’s productivity slump, the flywheel of successful exits and the policy settings the country needs to encourage innovation.
“You should be encouraging young people to start businesses,” he said.
"If you want to discourage speculative investment in property, then you should change the tax settings of property relative to other asset classes."Tax settings drive incentives, Ben explained and the danger in the current plan is that the government is “going to make this a less attractive place to start a business."
There’s plenty to unpack in the macro view of Australia’s start sector and Ben brings some clear thoughts to the conversation.
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Vision gets a lot of attention in startups.
It's the thing founders pitch to investors, talk about with customers and use to inspire teams.
But as Dane Hudson argues, vision alone isn't enough.
After more than 25 years leading businesses across five industries and mentoring more than 150 founders and CEOs, Dane learnt that scaling a company requires something less glamorous but ultimately more important: discipline.
This week on episode 62 of Startup 360, Simon and Majella sit down with the founder of Impactful Leadership and author of Discipline Beats Vision to talk about what it really takes to lead as a business grows.
Dane isn't speaking from theory. He has the scars to prove it.
There was the time he was running KFC in Southern Africa and a franchisee came to a meeting with him, put a gun on the table and named Dane’s three daughters.
And also watching as CEO of a listed wine company as its share price fell 97%.
Those experiences shaped the leadership lessons he now shares with founders, CEOs and executive teams across Australia and Southeast Asia.
Simon and Majella ask about the difference between grit and resilience, the mistakes leaders make as companies scale, why transparency matters more than most founders realise, and what boards and CEOs often misunderstand about each other.
They also unpack some of the key lessons from Discipline Beats Vision, including why leadership is ultimately a set of behaviours rather than a title, and why the habits that get a business started are rarely the same ones that help it scale.
It's a candid conversation from a veteran leader about how to be disciplined and what you need to do when the pressure is really on.
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R&D investment and commercialisation can't be treated as separate issues, says Liza Noonan, CEO of Sydney deep-tech hub Cicada Innovations, on episode 61 of Startup 360.
Liza unpacks deep tech — think quantum computing, medical devices and advanced manufacturing — and the unique challenges the sector faces with Simon and Majella on this week's show.
Unlike software startups, where founders identify a customer problem and build a solution, deep-tech startups often begin with a breakthrough invention and then work to find its commercial application.
The result is longer development cycles, greater capital requirements, and a need for different founder skills, investors and support structures.
It's not the Silicon Valley SaaS playbook.
Australia's research engine is stronger than many people realise, but there remains a bottleneck in turning ideas from the lab into large, globally competitive companies. Government procurement, infrastructure and scale-up support can matter just as much as venture capital.
Simon describes the Budget's proposed changes to the R&D Tax Incentive as creating a new "valley of death" for deep-tech startups.
Liza argues the challenge isn't simply funding research. It's helping companies move from "0 to 1" (proving the technology), then from "1 to 10" and "10 to 100" (building a business around it) so the productivity gains, jobs and economic returns are realised in Australia rather than ending up offshore.
Liza also shares the experience of losing her father while raising three children, as Startup 360 once again explores the human side of tech.
Simon also discusses his submission to the Senate Economics Committee examining the Federal Budget's proposed capital gains tax changes and their potential impact on startups, founders, investors and employees receiving equity.
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Fishburners has a new owner. And episode 60’s guest is Carolyn Breeze, CEO of the buyer, ASX-listed Scalare Partners.
Scalare bought Fishburners from the voluntary administrators this week and the startup community and its members will leave the Tech Central Innovation Hub to become part of Tank Stream Labs.
The move also brings change for cohost Majella Campbell, who’ll wrap up as Fishburners CEO and take a break after 15 torrid months working to right the ship.
Carolyn takes us through her plans for Fishies - pitch nights and a new investment fund to back those startups are afoot, and explains her vision for Scalare, which owns Tank Stream, the Australian Technology Comp, Tech Ready Women and several other brands.
She's also recently taken a deep dive into how Australia’s startup ecosystem performs globally in key metrics such as investment, liquidity, experience and first customers and shares some sobering stats.
Only 34% of startup investment is domestic, she explained, compared to 60-70%. Overseas investors love Aussie startups, but as Carolyn points out, especially in the context of the government's capital gains tax changes, when there’s a liquidity moment, “the international money, and then the operators and the IP are staying over there”. That hurts Australian startups.
“Our tech workforce is contracting. In every other market it's expanding,” she said.
The Scalare CEO also has some thoughts on the short-term thinking of politicians and the uncertainty created by constantly changing government priorities.
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After 3 non-event federal budgets for the startup sector, all hell broke loose on May 12 when treasurer Jim Chalmers announced capital gain tax changes that will reduce the size of the cheque startup shareholders receive in a liquidity event.
The backlash has been enormous and the sector is hoping Treasury will hear their pleas and create carveouts for startups and their investors, as well as small business.
But amid the sound, fury and 47% equity social media memes, what does it all mean?
That’s what Jack Qi, partner from startup advisory and accountancy firm William Buck explains on episode 59 of Startup 360.Will founders go overseas? Is this the end of Australian innovation? Who are the winners and losers from the government’s changes? Qi unpacks it all in this special edition of the show that puts the sexy back in the Tax Act.
And because Startup 360 is all about staying human and finding out what makes people tick, Qi reveals he really wanted to be a fighter pilot - but ended up ensuring startup founders and their employees and investors pay no more tax than they have to, instead. And loves it.
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Startup founders are told to hustle harder, push through and never let the cracks show. But what happens when the pressure becomes too much?
This week on Startup 360, host Simon Thomsen sits down with workplace mental health advocate Graeme Cowan for a candid conversation about burnout, psychological safety and the hidden emotional cost of building a business.
Graeme, a founding board director of R U OK? and host of the Caring CEO podcast, shares his own experience of crashing after the dotcom collapse and spending five years out of work with severe depression. From that journey came a mission to help leaders create healthier, more resilient workplaces.
“The old saying, a problem shared is a problem halved,” Graeme says - a simple idea that sits at the heart of this week’s episode’s message about vulnerability, connection and asking for help before burnout takes hold.
This episode dives into why startup culture’s obsession with resilience can sometimes fuel burnout instead. Graeme shares practical ways founders can check in with their teams, recognise early warning signs and build sustainable habits before things spiral.
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OpenAI’s APAC startups lead Thomas Jeng has a warning for founders worried AI is about to replace them: calm down. The tools are getting smarter at breakneck speed, but the people building the future are still very much in the driver’s seat.
Speaking with Startup 360 co-hosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell, Thomas - a former founder, VC operator and now OpenAI’s first startup hire across Asia Pacific - unpacked what AI can actually do for startups right now, where the hype goes too far, and why Australia’s startup ecosystem continues to punch above its weight globally.
Throughout the conversation, Thomas’ core message remained consistent: AI is an incredible accelerator, but not a substitute for human insight.“If you’re breaking new ground, there will inevitably be things the AI does not know,” he said, pointing to the irreplaceable value of customer conversations, market intuition and founder conviction.
The discussion also veered into the increasingly human side of AI adoption. Thomas shared that he uses ChatGPT to help explain Singapore maths to his children, plan family holidays, analyse parenting advice and even think through relationships. But he’s also cautious about over dependence, particularly for kids.
For founders overwhelmed by the pace of AI, his advice was refreshingly practical: don’t try to automate your entire business overnight.“Probably pretty much everyone can take one step forward,” he said.
Whether it’s improving one workflow, connecting a new data source, or simply learning to prompt better, the biggest gains often start small.
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A decade ago, Joshua Ross and his good mate Adam McCurdie went looking for an idea that would have maximum impact in doing the most good.
So they decided to take on the global ticketing industry and launch Humanitix.
Their second crazy big idea was to give away all the company’s profit.
They’ve succeeded on both fronts. Since Humanitix was founded in Sydney in 2016, it’s given away $21 million to charities and projects, including ethicist Peter Singer’s The Life you can Save. The Atlassian Foundation has helped the pair take on a cutthroat industry and thrive.
Humanitix now operates in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada and UK, and Hollywood superstar and kindred spirit Hugh Jackman recently signed on as head of impact.
Josh sits down with Simon on Startup 360 this week to talk about that adventure and what it means to have a not-for-profit social enterprise - something that doesn’t fit the normal philanthropic model.
It’s inspiring and uplifting story of how impact and happiness comes not from the money you make but what you do with it next.
And it turns out that Josh and Wolverine read the same books.
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The global business travel market is worth more than $2 trillion annually, but when most employees seek to get from A to B, how it works is not something many think about.
Altitude AI founder Aimee Armstrong has, transforming the industry to help smaller businesses save time and money thanks to AI.
She's Simon and Majella's guest on episode 55 of Startup 360 this week.
Her story is as fascinating as her ambitions, having previously worked as a motorcycle mechanic and raced Yamaha 600cc motorbikes - so Aimee knows a bit about risk and moving fast too.
She also worked at some of Australia's top tech companies, including Siteminder, Go1 and Domain.
Using AI to redefine how the business world moves, she's companies lower their travel spend and making it easier for employees using an AI travel agent that can book entire trips via work tools such as Slack, and helping them deal with fiddly details such as company travel policies.
It's a great conversation with some travel tips from Aimee too.
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The term Sandwich Generation was coined in the early 80s to describe people, aged in their 30s to 60s, who found themselves not only raising a family, but also caring for their parents - "carenting" - at the same time.
In the middle of all those competing demands, they're also trying to build their careers and the pressures can make it all feel overwhelming.
The numbers are stark - caregiving is a second job taking an average 31 hours weekly, in a journey that typically lasts 5+ years. The cost to the caregiver is estimated at around $567,000. The burden falls overwhelmingly to women, who are 70% of caregivers.
That challenge is the problem Melissa Reader set out to solve with her AI startup, Vera.
Episode 54 of Startup 360 focuses on trying to be everything, for everyone, all at once in a heartfelt conversation between Melissa and host Simon Thomsen, spanning work culture, maintaining focus, grief, dementia, family conflict and even voluntary assisted dying - something in the news this week with the loss of broadcaster and musician James Valentine, aged just 64.
Melissa faced tragedy early in her career after losing her beloved husband Mauro, aged 40, to cancer, just after the birth of their third child. She cofounded Vera with Yaniv Bernstein. It's an agentic AI platform that listens to your specific situation and helps turn those pressures into action to help you navigate a range of situations, from your parents to your family dynamics and other constraints.
It's all about tracking what matters, connecting the dots between decisions and most importantly, using AI that never advises, but rather interprets and builds context for human experts to guide you.
Melissa also produces the excellent Club Sandwich podcast with Sarah Macdonald, talking to people on the frontline of caring. Make sure you have a listen after Startup 360.
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School and Malachy Doyle were never the best of mates.Our guest for episode 53 is now 17 and left school for entrepreneurship, founding his first startup Venty.
Never mind the education, even being told when to have lunch got on his goat. And Malachy likes to have control of his destiny."I like building cool things," he explained to Majella and Simon, having launched his first business - making and selling Valentine's Day card, when he was just 12.
Venty is an AI‑powered emotional support and journaling app that offers structured, conversational “venting” rather than clinical therapy, positioned as a low‑friction way to process day‑to‑day emotions in 5‑minute sessions.It's not a replacement for professional mental health help, Malachy explains, but helps a range of people address the daily life anxiety they feel, using AI.
AI is a big theme in this week's show, with Majella and Simon discussing the attacks on the home of OpenAI's Sam Altman in the wake of a critic New Yorker article, and Anthropic's Mythos, a new model so dangerous it can only be offered to corporations, who no doubt will use it wisely for the benefit of all.
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If, like Startup 360 cohost Simon and Majella, you have a pile of non-fiction books beside the bed that you're trying to get around to reading, you'll love episode 52's guest.
Shruta Satam left nearly 20 years as a corporate consultant for the likes of Deloitte and PwC to become a startup cofounder last year.
Pustakh (the Sanskrit word for books), launched in Sydney in late 2025.The idea came from a pattern Shruta watched repeat during her consulting career.
"The smartest, most well-read leaders I worked with would finish a book, feel inspired, cite it in the next meeting, and then change nothing. The gap between knowing and doing was everywhere, and no platform was built to fix it," she said.
Pustakh is an AI-based applied learning platform for non-fiction books. It's not just a summary of 80,000 words handed to you in bite-sized pieces. It gets to know the reader to create personalised action steps, based on their specific goals, challenges, and career stage, so two people reading the same book get two entirely different action plans
She's also building a habit tracker to close the loop by tracking whether Pustakh users are implementing what they read.
The conversation roams from her favourite books to the metaphysical and beyond - and of course the impact of how AI is reshaping the ways we learn.
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The wild thing about building a marketplace for jobs is that you never know what your customers will need.
Airtasker cofounder and CEO admits on episode 51 of Startup 360 that when a man wanted someone to fly from Australia to the US to pick up an engagement ring and bring it back, they deleted, thinking it was a hoax.A slightly indignant, but also very anxious and hopeful future fiancé set the record straight and the Tasker who said yes is probably still a hit at dinner parties with that story.
Tim shares his story with Simon and Majella this week, from Airtasker's origin story to the lessons of leading for more than a decade, and going public on the ASX in 2021.
The entrepreneur and father has some honest insights on what it takes to build a category creating business and the perils and triumphs that entails, including learning what you can and can't say when you're the the typically open boss of a public company.
As Christians and Jews mark Easter and Passover, Simon and Majella also discuss the latest news: the big Meta court cases in the US over child safety and addiction; and locally, the eSafety commissioner's battle with the social media giants over the under 16s ban.
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Finder.com, one of the first generation of Australian tech startups, has just turned 20. So for the 50th episode of Startup 360, we have a very special guest - co-founder Jeremy Cabral.
It was so long ago that two new inventions, Twitter and the iPhone, played a central role in Jeremy's next two decades after his co-founder-to-be, Fred Schebesta, asked on the social media site whether to buy the new Apple product or Nokia N95. Jeremy already had an iPhone and shared his thoughts with Fred. That moment would transform what was then known as Credit Card Finder into one of the world's most successful comparison sites, last valued at $680 million.
He spent the next 16 years as COO driving Finder's global growth, before stepping down from an operational role in September last year. Jeremy remains an advisor to the Finder team, led by OG CEO and cofounder Frank Restuccia.
"I'm driven by 3 things, connection, growth, and helping people. They're my 3 values," Jeremy told Startup 360's cohosts, Majella and Simon. He "accidentally ended up becoming an advisor to businesses" after he posted on LinkedIn and more than 170 companies reached out for help. He's now a startup coach and growth advisor.
It's a long and fascinating episode covering the lessons of building Finder, Jeremy's ambitions for the future and where he things tech is going and what it takes to build a great business. Startup 360 is all about staying human and finding out what makes people tick.
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This week on Startup 360, we talk to veteran startup recruiter Dexter Cousins about work in the AI era.
With WiseTech Global cutting 2,000 jobs, nearly a third of its global workforce, the Commonwealth Bank shedding 300 tech roles, Block reducing its workforce by 40% - 4,000 more jobs gone, the employment landscape is changing faster than ever before as artificial intelligence transforms how people work.
Dexter wrote about it for Startup Daily earlier this month, and founded Tier One People a decade ago, which helps fintechs find the people they need. He's now pondering his own role over the next decade.
Having grown up in Northern England in some tough times, Dexter's used to being blunt, but he also brings incredible insights into what it means to be a valuable employee in his conversation with Simon and Majella.
The pair also discuss the biggest news of the week - the fact that the "mystery weekend" Majella's partner, Brendan, flagged last weekend turned out to be an M&A deal. She's engaged! And has a very heavy ring finger to prove it. Congrats to the pair of them.
In other news this week, the release of the Denholm report into Australia's R&D policy is also unpacked, along with Advanced Navigation, has raised $158 million in Series C (although Simon initially shortchanged them $5m).
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It's a special episode of Startup 360 this week with Earthletica cofounder Bronte Campbell.
The triple Olympic gold medallist and a former World Champion's had a bit of a career pivot since Paris. She's now CEO of the sustainable activewear brand after competing in four Olympics - her first as a teenager in 2012.
Bronte and cofounder Libby Babbett are now raising capital for Earthletica on the crowdfunding platform Birchal, having already generated more than $200,000 in revenue, selling out its first-year products.
She decided to tackle a key problem in the $600 billion activewear market - it's made from virgin plastics and harsh chemicals. Earthletica uses recycled and organic materials, avoids PFAS (the forever chemical) treatments, and is designed with end-of-life recycling in mind.
Startup 360 hosts Simon and Majella talk to Bronte about what a winning mindset and focus in sport brings to founder life, overcoming setbacks and discussing a subject close to her heart, creating a winning team culture.
Bronte's delved deep into it, having dealt with the worst and helped create one of the best cultures in Australia's Olympic swimming team, and what she has to say about the science is fascinating.
It's an inspiring conversation with a sporting great, now doing amazing things on the founder field.
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Startup 360 takes a deep dive into leadership this week with Chris Kirk, one of the OGs with Stone and Chalk .
Chris recently announced he was stepping down as CEO after three years, and 11 with the organisation since it began in Sydney.
It's not so much an exit interview as a rumination on what he's learnt about what it takes to be a great founder and also leader. Chris took the top job at a time when the not-for-profit's finances were in a perilous state, with losses in the millions, and has returned the innovation hub that's home to more than 500 startups and scaleups in three capital cities to financial stability in an $9 million turnaround.
Simon and Majella also talk to Chris about what he learnt from his first CEO role, the support he gathered around him to succeed, and when it comes to holding yourself accountable, how the father of two also does that for family while in a high-pressure job.
Chris also talks about the role he plays as regimental sergeant major to hundreds of founders at Stone & Chalk, and knowing when to step in to help and advise someone who might be struggling with "the 57 things you've gotta deal with today to keep your business alive".
Episode 47 of Startup 360 is an open and honest conversation about staying the course and knowing that leadership is a marathon and not a sprint.
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It's a slightly different Startup 360 this week with no special guest, so cohosts Simon and Majella take the time to kick around the big news of the last few weeks, from Canva buying two more startups, to WiseTech slashing 2000 coding jobs in favour of AI, UpGuard's $105 million raise and SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear returning as CEO ahead of an AI rebuild of the workplace safety platform.
Simon and Majella also cover Growth Summit in Melbourne, where Aconex cofounder Leigh Jasper offered advice on staying the course in business, and VCs explained what "you're too early" means.
The pair also crack open a can of Australian Coffee Culture's Australian-grown coffee. Cofounder Shreya Gupta was a guest on the show in November, and Majella had an update on Dome - founders Sophie Greiner and Bella Filacuridi were guests in August - with the podcasting community engagement startup launching with its first podcast, all about tackling the juggle between work and raising a family.
They also discuss Uber after Simon made a post about surge pricing on LinkedIn that's had more than 60,000 impressions in just 48 hours. What's your take - just the free market working or a price gouge that's outside the acceptable boundaries of business?
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It’s all about artificial intelligence this week with In the Blink of AI host Georgie Healy joining the show to talk about what many see as the 4th industrial revolution.
Majella’s away this week, so Simon enlisted Georgie to talk about this week’s news, including the loss of Techstars Sydney, before they got into the weeds on AI.
Georgie’s podcast, In the Blink of AI, is out every Friday and recently spoke with AWS AI guru Rada Stanic, who admits even she’s struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change in artificial intelligence.
Georgie, who recently left Google to focus on her podcast, also turned the tables on Simon asking him about the impact of AI and tech on journalism.
They talked about parenting in the age of smartphones - Georgie had a revelation while off her phone for 90 minutes while her son was at Nippers - and ethics in AI, as well as her love of music and her hacks for using AI better.
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