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Women make up just 7% of global fintech founders according to Deloitte. Women also make up only 1% of total fintech VC funding.

In this episode, we chat to Jill about her experiences being in this group. Jill Berry is the CEO and co-founder of Adatree, an Australian financial technology company at the forefront of Open Banking. We chat about her experiences of being the only woman in the room, her views on taking risks and learnings on leadership.

Disclaimer: this conversation does not refer to scientific studies and is built on stories of personal experience.



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Sahil Bloom graduated from Stanford, managed $3.5 billion in capital, has angel invested in over 30 companies, and grew to 400,000 Twitter followers. Some of his key writings include how to win without talent or luck, and how to make $10m by 30.

This is a Next Chapter event that we've produced into a podcast episode! We thought this event was fantastic and can't wait to share it with you. While we don’t feature in this episode, Sahil gives great advice on leveraging the creator economy, networking, how he became friends with Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO and building the life you want. 

If you haven’t heard of Next Chapter, it’s a community that runs through Slack. It's a group of ambitious, curious Gen Z builders, investors and creators. The idea behind the community is that if you can bring the most incredible people together - you make the exceptional normal. 

If you want to join check out:

nextchapter.to/community



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It's the end of January, one month down on your new years resolutions. How are they going?

In this episode we chat to our friends, Max Marchione and Sandithi Lewanda about new years resolutions. We reflect on what worked well and what didn't in the last year, and take the key lessons in achieving our goals into the new year. This is a great episode of reflection, lessons, and some helpful knee advice. 

How do you take a "new business idea!" moment to something real? 

In our conversation with Anna Podolsky, we learn about how she started Lyka, a direct-to-consumer pet wellness startup. We break down the journey of starting a venture-backed business chapter by chapter. 

Chapter 1: business development and taking the leap to leave her job as a consultant. Chapter 2: bootstrapping. Chapter 3: fundraising to scale. 



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A term that you might have seen recently is Web 3, used to describe the way the internet is changing. 

In this episode, we break down how the web is evolving, where it's going and why this matters. We chat to Daniel Bar, founder at Bitfwd to unpack the impacts of the world's transition to web 3 and the trends appearing across recent projects. Daniel also explains the meanings of key terms that float around in this space such as the blockchain, NFTs and DAOs. 



Further resources:

Tools to get on boarded into crypto with:


Bitfwd Telegram: t.me/bitfwd
Bitfwd Twitter: twitter.com/bitfwdxyz
Daniel's personal Twitter: twitter.com/danieltbar



People Daniel recommends to follow:


Twitter.com/naval
Twitter.com/cburniske
Twitter.com/vitalikbuterin
Twitter.com/balajis
Twitter.com/QwQiao
Twitter.com/katherineykwu
Twitter.com/Fiskantes
Twitter.com/mrjasonchoi
Twitter.com/Shuyao_Kong
Twitter.com/yangwao



Projects Daniel is working on:


Cryptosat.io - Satellite network with confidential computing units for crypto applications
deepdao.io - DAO ecosystem dashboard and data analytics
Metaprime.network + KodaDot.xyz: Metaverse infrastructure + NFT marketplace
dHEDGE.org - Hedge Fund protocol
Aleph.im - Decentralized cloud computing services
SubQuery.network - Data indexing and query protocol for the Substrate based blockchain applications
OnFinality.io - Hosted Blockchain cloud computing services and API.



First tools to use:


Metamask.io (web and mobile wallet)



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In this episode, we unpack the key learnings from elite performance in sports and how this can be applied to your work. 

We chat to Olympian and medical student Mackenzie Little to understand the habits, attitude and mindset that enables her to excel at both athletics and academics. We discuss how Mackenzie manages her time, sets herself up to achieve her goals, performing under pressure, and the importance of genuinely enjoying yourself at what you do. 



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