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An interview show about the messy, winding path to doing meaningful work

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  1. -3 d.

    From Eucalyptus to $100M robotics startup | Joe Harris

    Joe Harris is the founder of Alloy, an AI-native data platform helping robotics companies manage their data and ship safer, more reliable robots. Alloy just closed an $11.5M seed round at a $115M valuation, backed by leading Australian VCs and angels from OpenAI, Tesla, Anthropic and more. Before Alloy, Joe led growth at telehealth company Eucalyptus, which recently sold to Hims for over $1 billion. Saurav and Joe talk about how robotics is still in its early innings, how he’s earned credibility without decades in the industry, what he looks for when hiring and what keeps him up at night as he tries to scale Alloy into one of the biggest companies in physical AI. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 02:07 - Alloy's $11.5M seed round and what it unlocks 03:16 - The journey from Eucalyptus to robotics 07:27 - Why Joe chose to start a company 08:51 - Joe's founding insight 12:02 - What does the future of robotics look like? 18:24 - How Alloy helps customers 20:18 - Competition 23:52 - Building a team 26:06 - Earning credibility 27:30 - Timing 32:38 - Prioritization and killing bad experiments 34:01 - What success and failure look like 38:49 - Advice for early-career people amid AI disruption 42:55 - Building a founder-led brand 44:46 - nonlinear's 3 closing questions This episode is brought to you by Choppity, an AI tool that turns long-form videos into social media-ready clips. Try it for free at https://www.choppity.com/ Links: Alloy: https://www.usealloy.ai/Joe’s book recommendation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem

  2. 7. aug.

    From email newsletter to Australia's first sales school | Dan Brockwell

    Dan is the co-founder of Earlywork, Australia's first sales school helping people build 6-figure careers in sales. He's also an R&B musician, performing under the name BROCKNROLL. Saurav and Dan chat about building a business around pain instead of passion, why he and his co-founders took the decision to pivot and halve their revenue, how posting online has been a huge source of opportunity, the four pillars he uses to define a good life, and what pulled him back into making music after years away from it. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:49 - Childhood and family influence 04:13 - Starting Earlywork and finding co-founders 09:11 - The instinct to build 12:59 - Multiple pivots 19:41 - Personal branding and posting on LinkedIn 25:29 - Career experimentation 26:44 - Chasing pain instead of passion 28:53 - Dan's relationship with work 32:29 - What other founders taught him 35:23 - The music journey 39:10 - Creative process and streaming numbers 43:21 - nonlinear's 3 closing questions This episode is brought to you by Choppity, an AI tool that turns long-form videos into social media-ready clips. Try it for free at https://www.choppity.com/ - Earlywork website: https://www.earlywork.co/ - Dan's music page: https://www.instagram.com/brocknrollmusic/ - Dan's book recommendation: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/71730.Nonviolent_Communication

  3. 20. juli

    From Canva PM to seven-figure design studio | Audrey T

    Audrey runs Mapo Studio, offering product design for AI-first startups and scaleups like Heidi Health, Relevance AI, Eucalyptus and Lorikeet. She's also grown to over 100K followers across social media platforms, posting about working in tech, freelancing and running a business. In this episode, Audrey and Saurav talk about the importance of asking for what you want, what good AI product design looks like, the mindset you need to be a content creator and increasing your surface area for luck. Timestamps: 00:00 - Cold open 00:54 - Introduction 02:29 - Childhood and early lessons 05:03 - Early career experimentation 08:24 - What makes good product design 09:47 - The freelancing journey 13:38 - Working at Lorikeet 16:20 - Relaunching Mapo Studio 18:33 - Why chat is a lazy default in AI product design 21:02 - A week in Audrey's life 22:08 - Habits for successful content creation 28:49 - Retirement as freedom from money-first decisions 31:21 - The importance of luck 33:19 - Writing cold emails that work 37:00 - nonlinear's 3 closing questions

  4. 7. juli

    From VC investor to debut novelist | Jessy Wu

    Jessy Wu spent seven years as a management consultant and VC investor before walking away to do two things: start a business and write a novel. A year and a half later, she's done both — running her comms agency, Encour, and publishing her debut novel, Good Intentions. In this episode, Jessy and Saurav talk about why she left a stable career in finance to chase writing, how she turned her real experience in VC, consulting, and journalism into fiction, why she's willing to be a "trailblazer and a firebrand" on LinkedIn even when it invites backlash and how she's trying to make a full-time career as a writer. Timestamps: 00:00 - Cold open and Intro 03:42 - Early reactions to Good Intentions 05:10 - The pivot from VC/consulting into the arts 08:24 - The intersection of art and commerce 11:39 - How Jessy's experiences shaped Good Intentions 13:00 - The purpose of good writing17:29 - The early drafts of Good Intentions 20:26 - The writing and publishing process 28:08 - Personal branding and being outspoken online 31:59 - Making a career as a writer 39:38 - What's next 40:59 - Advice for anyone with a creative itch and a corporate job 43:52 - nonlinear's 3 closing questions

  5. 15. juni

    From redundancy to 600K+ podcast listeners | Vidit Agarwal

    Vidit Agarwal is the Founder & CEO of Curiosity Centre, an Insights, Marketing & Consulting Firm trusted across the USA, Australia, India and New Zealand. He also hosts The High Flyers podcast, releasing over 250 episodes with senior leaders in tech, government, sports and beyond. But the path here was anything but linear. A below-average ATAR, a pathway diploma at RMIT, three years at Coles, a quick jump into startup land, a stint at P&G and then a move to Sydney just weeks before COVID hit — losing two jobs in eight weeks in a city where he barely knew anyone. That was the fuel to start The High Flyers Podcast, the lockdown project that soon became a calling. Timestamps: 00:00 — Introduction 03:00 — Vidit's formative years 05:15 — Vidit's influences growing up 08:15 — A low ATAR and finding the "third door" 13:30 — The Coles internship 16:24 — What a mentor saw in Vidit in his early career20:20 — Heading to startup land 22:30 — The P&G experience at Gillette 24:30 — Moving to Sydney; COVID and two lost jobs 26:00 — Why he started the High Flyers Podcast 30:35 — The craft of interviewing: curiosity-first 37:30 — How Vidit's concept of a "high-flyer" has evolved 39:40 — Building The Curiosity Centre 49:10 — Balancing the different verticals of The Curiosity Centre 51:00 — The value of having a financial safety net 56:00 — Luck and the surface area of opportunity 57:30 — nonlinear's 3 ending questions

  6. 1. juni

    Build Australia, startup marketing and sabbaticals | Franko Ali

    Franko Ali has spent over a decade in marketing and storytelling, from growing YouTube channels at Discovery Media in San Francisco to brand-building for one of Australia's leading venture capital firms. This year, he's taking a sabbatical to reset while still staying in motion. He's helping to launch Build Australia: a grassroots movement turning collective anxiety about the future into something optimistic. Timestamps: 00:00 - Opening highlight and introduction 01:39 - The link between marketing and optimism 03:50 - Growing up in California, Steiner schools and accidental stoicism 10:13 - How the early internet influenced Franko 17:30 - Going viral on Facebook while in college 19:00 - Franko's early career in media at Discovery 25:24 - The move to Australia 29:44 - Finding community as an outsider 32:15 - Working in tech and VC in Australia 45:00 - Franko's sabbatical experience 49:08 - Build Australia: turning anxiety into a national optimism movement 59:27 - AI content overload and the fear of losing our humanity 1:04:12 - nonlinear's 3 ending questions --- 🎙 ABOUT NONLINEAR nonlinear is the podcast about the messy, winding path to doing meaningful work. Each episode, host Saurav Risbud sits down with someone who took an unconventional route, whether that's starting a company, taking a sabbatical, or finding meaning beyond a job title.Subscribe and share with someone who's figuring out their next move.

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An interview show about the messy, winding path to doing meaningful work

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