Podcasts by The Unicorn Farm - turning startup horses into billion dollar unicorns
The Unicorn Farm was conceived to help transform startups from horses to billion dollar unicorns. It’s tough being an entrepreneur and if this collection of interviews and insights helps in any way at all, it will have served its purpose.
As well as his role helping the startup sector in Australia and New Zealand for AWS, Ian Gardiner helps to run Innovation Bay, a networking group whose mission statement is to help technology startups succeed. It runs Angel investment dinners and speaker events for entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives in the technology sector.
Previously to all of this he was the CEO and founder of Viocorp, an Australian video software startup. At the dawn of the internet age (1997), he was the founding employee of newsbase.com, a successful news, analysis and business intelligence service from emerging markets. He also founded and ran lastorders.com in the UK.
In November 2009 Ian won the NSW Pearcey award for ICT Entrepreneur of the Year. Ian holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Oxford where he also won two rowing blues in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. In his spare time he is a competitive cyclist, avid computer gamer, husband and father of two boys (not in that order).
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Dr Catriona Wallace, CEO of Flamingo at Innovation Bay Sydney, 19 April 2017 from 2017-04-20T00:01:13
Ash Fontana of Zetta Ventures (ex AngelList) from 2017-03-24T06:00:46
Dr Kate Cornick, CEO of LaunchVic at Innovation Bay Melbourne Feb 2017 from 2017-02-01T04:15:21
Greg Moshal - Co-CEO, Prospa. Recorded at Innovation Bay Sydney breakfast event - 18 May 2016 from 2016-05-20T06:00:16
Wyatt Roy - Assistant Minister for Innovation. March 2016 from 2016-05-20T00:00:53
James Spenceley, Vocus from 2016-02-23T22:18:55
James came along to an Innovation Bay event in late 2015. He was a remarkable CEO. Very young, very dynamic and utterly competent. Whilst at the same time very humble and soft-spoken. Here's an exc...
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Adrian Cockcroft - Battery Ventures from 2015-12-12T00:43:57
One of the luxuries that US VCs have over Australian ones is that with the size of their funds, range of investments and sheer size they can afford to employ crazy-smart technologists like Adrian. ...
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Luke Anear And Scott Farquhar from 2015-11-04T23:18:31
I hosted an Innovation Bay Breakfast with Luke and Scott in Sydney in October 2015. As I said in my opening, we really were in the presence of startup royalty. These guys are the Real Deal. And t...
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Rod Drury, Xero July 2015 from 2015-08-19T02:14:09
Rod Drury is the founder and CEO of Xero, a New Zealand accounting software business. Rod joined me for a chat at the launch of Innovation Bay's Melbourne chapter. He's an amazing guy with an incre...
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A Deep Dive Into The Australian Startup Ecosystem - From The Big Pitch 2015 from 2015-07-01T00:18:04
I moderated a panel on the Australian Startup Ecosystem as part of The Big Pitch in Melbourne. Fascinating discussion. On the panel with me: - Doron Ben-Meir from University of Melbourne - Bro...
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What Corporates Can Learn From Startups - From The Big Pitch 2015 from 2015-07-01T00:07:17
I was invited by the team at Melbourne's Oxygen Ventures to help curate and moderate a live panel just before the Big Pitch event in June 2015 in Melbourne. We pulled together a great panel to disc...
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Jost Stollman - Tyro from 2015-06-24T01:21:44
As part of the Sunrise conference this year I had the chance to interview the amazing Jost Stollmann from Tyro. Thanks to Niki and the guys from Blackbird for pulling the conference together. Reall...
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Tony Surtees, Zeetings from 2015-06-11T06:36:06
Tony Surtees is the co-founder of Zeetings, an amazing tool to make presentations and meetings more engaging and interactive. For both the presenter and the audience.
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Doug Stuart, Instacluster from 2015-05-20T23:49:09
I visited the hotbed of Canberra startup innovation, the CBR Innovation Network. One of their hottest startups is Instaclustr, which offers cloud access to the remarkable Apache Cassandra database....
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Alternative Finance Panel - ASX 30 April 2015 from 2015-05-06T06:42:18
Alternative Finance panel - ASX 30 April 2015 by The Unicorn Farm
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Luke Anear, Safety Culture from 2015-04-24T03:58:28
Luke is the founder and CEO of Safety Culture, one of Australia's most promising startups.
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Laura McKenzie, Scale Investors from 2015-04-12T23:43:43
Laura is the founder and CEO of Scale Investors, a female-focused investment fund.
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Darcy Naunton, York Butter Factory from 2015-04-12T23:16:37
Darcy was one of the co-founders of the remarkable starup factory, York Butter Factory. Hear the story behind this and an insight into Melbourne's startup scene.
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Andrew Corbett-Jones, Tyro Fintech Hub from 2015-03-18T01:34:20
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Rob Nathan, Amcom Upstart from 2015-02-24T00:59:03
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Francis Vierboom, Propeller Aerobotics from 2015-02-20T05:10:50
Francis Vierboom, Propeller Aerobotics by The Unicorn Farm
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Hamish Hawthorn, ATP Innovations from 2015-02-20T05:09:16
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How Does A Crazy Idea Morph Into A Business Which Sells For $900m To Amazon? Justin Kan, Twitch from 2015-02-09T00:07:19
Justin Kan is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and TwitchTV, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He is a ...
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The IPO Process - What's It Like? Neil Helm, OzForex from 2015-02-06T03:23:40
Neil is the CEO of OzForex, a recent entrant to Australia's ASX stock exchange after a successful listing in 2013. Neil talks frankly about what the process of listing your company is like. Plenty ...
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Why Is The Financial Services Sector So Hot For Startups? Toby Heap, AWI Ventures from 2015-02-06T03:09:09
Toby runs Australia's first financial-sector focused accelerator, AWI Ventures. Now on their second batch of 6 startups, Toby discusses why he has focused on this sector and what to look forward to...
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How To Build Your Technology Without A CTO. Alexis Soulopoulos - Madpaws from 2015-02-03T12:04:55
Alexis is the founder and CEO of Madpaws, an Airbnb-for-pets startup based in Sydney. We talk to Alex about how he has managed to build his technology without a full-time CTO.
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