Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

In this week's episode: 

•  NASDAQ & S & P 500 fall- why it matters.

• Kirstin Hunter joins equity platform Birchal as CEO. 
• The startup lesson Australia still struggles with. 
• Why taste, not tech, will be the advantage in the age of AI.
• Ingredients AI founders will need.
• Why startups fail.
• You can have everything you want, just not at the same time.
• Is your CEO a fraud? 
• Sharts:

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In this week's episode: 

• Employment Hero AI adoption drive. 
• Michael Luorebuilt a basic version of Docusign in 2 days. 
• AI development not fool proof just yet. 
• We are all just wrappers of the previous thing. 
• Market places are squarely in the firing line of AI agents. 
• New definitions of product market fit. 
• Cold outreach by Paypal. 
• Top of funnel is a waste of time sub $5mil? 
• Sharts

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In this week's epsidoe:

• Findings from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on the Wholesale investor tests are out.
• AI Agents talking in their own language (data over sound). 
• Voice agents getting better. 
• User experience is part of the rapid growth story: B2B feeling B2C. 
• Vu Tran seeking resumes. 
• Don’t assume a static world: model performance and cost. 
• Good Empire in administration. 
• Sha...

In this week's episode:

• Five V SaaS Summit, Sydney March 20th 2025. 
• KKR Acquires Stake in HRM Platform Employment Hero from SEEK Investments.
• Kiki’s investor reports reveal millions burned amid legal risks.
• The middle class engineer is dying. And it's dying because they're not needed anymore.

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• Small teams are the future. 

• What comes fast can be lost fast.
• Splose AI raises $5million.
• Finding c...

In this weeks episode: 

• OpenAI AI SDR.
• Investigating ChatGPT Search: Insights from 80 Million Clickstream Records. 
• Glass jaw man baby make face bid to buy OpenAI. 
• YC's first AI Startup School. 
• Cursor becomes the fastest company to $100M ARR.
• 2021 VC cohort looking very grim. 
• VC's don't reject you after deep DD. 
• About 50% of companies will go from Seed to Series A. 
• Lessons in VC. 
• Themes of the week. 
• Sharts. 

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In this week's episode: 

• Outbound isn't dead. 
• The worst thing that can happen to your startup isn't failure. 
• Australian start-up Lorikeet cracks $100m valuation in AI agent boom. 
• Robotics has reached a tipping point. 
• First bullet point or last bullet point AI companies.
• Miss America Nuclear Power debate. 
• Adrian Di Marco awarded OAM for his service to information technology. 
• Theme's of the week.
• Sharts

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In this week's episode: 

•  Matt Vitale sets down and leaves Birchal. 
• Rise of the zombie VCs: Australian venture capital faces a year of reckoning. 
• LinkedIn is in danger of being swamped by AI-generated slop.

• Not all channels are equal

•  Meta removes fact checkers & scraps diversity policies
• Silicon Valley’s lurch to the right catches the eye of local VCs.
• Strategy is to learn and change as qui...

In this episode of Founder Focus, we are joined by Dr Vu Tran. 

Vu is a visionary entrepreneur and co-founder of Black Sky Industries, a leading Australian aerospace and defense company specializing in sovereign solid rocket propulsion systems and advanced manufacturing. Before co-founding Black Sky Industries, Vu Tran was a  co-founder of Go1, one of the world's leading online learning platforms. Go1, has raised approximately $400...

In this week's episode:

• 2025 predictions. 
• Employment Hero uses mostly scrip to acquire company. 
• Text to action AI will fundamentally change the world. 
• The Great UI overall because of AI Agents.
• AI and hardware working together to change the lives of people paralysed.
• People with more resilience live longer. Here are six ways to build it.
• Why first time founders can outperform multi founders.
• Bench Accounting shuts down abru...

In this weeks episode: 

• Share price decline for accelerator Scalare Partners.
• Open AI goes down for 4 hours
• Satya Nadella on future of business apps in agentic era.
• After 2 years of talking about how important AI is, the government is going to spend the next 12 months developing a capability plan.
• Google announces quantum computing breakthrough.
• Resourcefulness over resources.
• Blackbird-backed HR start-up Tandem shuts down due...