The Founder Tapes with Gal Krohn

In this episode of The Founder Tapes, I sit down with Lyn Nguyen, the powerhouse behind Auvie Consultants, a boutique agency revolutionising e-commerce operations for seven and eight-figure brands. Lyn shares her journey from leading operations at MiHIGH to founding Auvie Consultants in early 2023, driven by her passion for streamlining e-commerce logistics and systems.

Recognised as one of Inside Retail’s Top 50 People in E-Com...

In this episode, I sit with Jonathan Wenig, lead partner at Arnold Bloch Leibler (ABL), to discuss his career, insights into the legal and business world, and the principles that drive his work. 

We also dive into All Things Equal – a social enterprise café Jonathan founded that provides meaningful employment opportunities for young adults with disabilities. The initiative aims to create an inclusive workforce by offering p...

In this episode, I sit down with Daniel Kitay, founder of FUNDAY Natural Sweets, to talk about his journey in creating a better-for-you candy brand that’s taking the Australian supermarket shelf by storm. From his own unhealthy relationship with sugar to taking on sugar-free lollie giants with FUNDAY, Daniel shares how he turned a passion for health and fun into a thriving business.

We dive head-first into ingredients, serving s...

Today, I’m joined by Australian media personality and entrepreneur, Davey Rooney. With over 400,000 followers across his personal and brand social media channels, Davey has made a name for himself as a trusted voice in skincare and content creation. 

As the founder of Boring Without You, Davey is redefining what it means to engage with skincare, blending authenticity, education, and creativity to connect with a growing audi...

Today I’m joined by Danielle Snell, an entrepreneurial lawyer and law firm founder who is doing things differently in the legal world.

Danielle isn’t your typical lawyer. With 15 years of experience in top and mid-tier private practice, she took a bold leap to create her own dynamic law firm, Elit Lawyers by McGirr & Snell, while pregnant. Her firm specialises in e-litigation and is redefining the traditional law firm model ...

This week I’m chatting with Tobi Skovron, best known for founding the co-working space empire that is Creative Cubes – offering flexible, serviced working spaces. 

The idea for Creative Cubes came to him when he was working in LA and running another venture in the pet space called The Pet Loo. There, he moved into a co-working space in Santa Monica in 2008 and just loved being surrounded by like-minded, go-getter, successfu...

This week’s guest is Dean Cherny, Founder & CEO at Storeplay.

Dean is a Retail Behavioural Expert, helping retailers boost sales and productivity by enhancing sensory retail experiences with Music, Signage, Scenting, Queue Management and Retail Media Network. You know the virtual queue you stood in for the AO? Or the playlist you heard at an RM Williams store? That’s Storeplay. 

Dean launched the company in 2012 in w...

On today’s founder tape, I’m chatting with Dr. Lincoln Harris, founder and CEO of RipeGlobal. 

RipeGlobal is the world’s first cloud-based dental simulation platform, born out of Lincoln’s realisation that dental graduates enter the field with only around 7% of the practical skills they need. Lincoln, a practicing dentist with over 25 years of experience, saw a gap in the industry that required an innovative solution. 

On today’s show (recorded at my guest’s own home in Jerusalem) I’m chatting with Israel (aka “Yisrael”) Kroizer, the Co-Founder and CTO of SolarGik - a company he founded in 2021 with a team of long-time solar energy veterans, including his son. 

It is hard to overstate the importance of Yisrael Kroizer in the world of solar energy. In 1980, and at the age of only 27, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Israeli company L...

David Zwier is the founder of Bonny, an eCommerce brand making comfortable, luxurious, yet affordable doonas. Before he founded Bonny, David was the global brand manager at Moose Toys, which was a 5-year masterclass in branding.  

In his time there, David got to work on massive projects involving licensing deals with Disney and Marvel and making Shopkins a $1b brand in its own right. He got incredible opportunities lik...

David Zwier is the founder of Bonny, an eCommerce brand making comfortable, luxurious, yet affordable doonas. Before he founded Bonny, David was the global brand manager at Moose Toys, which was a 5-year masterclass in branding.  

In his time there, David got to work on massive projects involving licensing deals with Disney and Marvel and making Shopkins a $1b brand in its own right. He got incredible opportunities lik...

Natassia Grace (otherwise known as Tass) is one of those founders that gets it DONE. She is the founder and CEO of Conserving Beauty - a skincare brand creating waterless skincare and dissolvable makeup wipes saving water, carbon and waste in the process. 

Natassia got Conserving Beauty into Mecca before even launching; she has used her superb networking skills to get entrepreneur and model Elle McPherson on her board of di...

In this episode I’m chatting with Richard James - a private investigator, surveillance specialist, and founder of his company RIVICA Investigations & Covert Solutions. 

Richard works with anyone from anxious business owners who are concerned they could be the target of damaging bogus claims from employees, to worried spouses suspecting their partner’s infidelity. In fact, Richard said that one of the recurring queries h...

This week on the show I’m chatting with Paul Bassat - an Australian businessman who is as passionate about entrepreneurship today as he was 30 years ago. Paul co-founded the online job search marketplace SEEK in 1997 with his brother Andrew Bassat and friend Matt Rockman. The brothers were co-CEOs until Paul resigned in 2011. 

What started off as not even knowing what the internet was, Paul together with the other two raise...

Storytelling is critical, especially when you want to succeed in business. Not only does it humanise you, but it allows for people to connect with your brand in ways slogans, marketing and logos can’t. Think about it: what is more interesting, a company’s ‘About Us’ page or the founder’s personal journey to founding it? In this episode, Joel Hines will help you craft your best communication and storytelling skills yet. 

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Alon Loeffler is a Postdoctoral Scientist at Cortical Labs in Melbourne. Cortical Labs are a biological computing startup putting live neurons into chips to revolutionise computing. 

This in part means the ability to teach real human brain cells to do things, outside the person’s body. The company works with real neurons, studying their electrical activity and even teaching them to play Pong (you read that right!). 

Entering the fiel...

Claire Walczak is an accredited family law specialist and a partner in Lander & Rogers' Melbourne family and relationship law office.

Having practised exclusively in family law since her admission to practice, she takes pride in providing specialist legal advice to her clients and empowering them with the financial independence and emotional security to plan for the next chapter of their lives.

In recent years, she has expand...

Gabriella is the CEO and Founding Director of GRP Speech Pathology and a certified practising Speech Pathologist. 

She’s committed to assisting people on their journey of restoring their ability to communicate, capacity to eat and swallow safely and ultimately to enhance their quality of life through the highest quality and most evidence-based approaches.

Gaby comes with a wealth of experience both locally in Australia and at interna...

Richard Zinn is a Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon with a special expertise in breast reconstruction as well as augmentation. Richard is well trained both locally and internationally, and is highly experienced with 2 postgraduate fellowships in breast surgery, microsurgery and general plastic surgery. He maintains involvement in both public and private centres, and is actively involved in training junior surgeons at the ...