#120 Tim Doyle + Alex Badran: Provocations & Round tables with the founders of Healthcare Tech startup, Eucalyptus and Pocket Money App, Spriggy

New series! In this episode #120 w Alex Badran and Tim Doyle,  learn about:

• 02:36 - Alex and Tim’s memories of meeting each other
• 03:30 - Opportunity in marketing from capital allocation and media management
• 04:10 - Probabilities and thinking in frameworks
• 04:57 - Alex’s memories of winning competitions watching cricket
• 06:56 - Grounding first principles in a logical framework from mathematics
• 08:14 - Why not enter finance post PhD in math?
• 10:38 - Career selection and matching interests and skills
• 12:07 - Balance between data and judgement in decision making
• 18:05 - Do founders have to evolve thinking from Seed stage to Series B and beyond?
• 20:28 - Drawing inference to the needs of a population for product building
• 22:02 - Role of data in performance marketing
• 23:47 - Campaign at Eucalyptus that surprised Tim the most
• 25:08 - Current phase of marketing being hyper local optimisation
• 27:06 - Finding product market fit for the second act of the business
• 33:24 - Customer problems, business problems, vision
• 35:06 - Generalist vs specialists
• 39:10 - Formulating team skill sets
• 41:15 - Combination of personalities effective at specific times and not others
• 44:18 - Outsource anything that doesn’t make your beer taste better
• 47:17 - What makes someone the best?
• 51:30 - Dreamers, leavers and settlers
• 54:50 - Transitioning from corporate to a startup
• 56:42 - Key learning for Alex and Tim in next 6 months

It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

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