People Building Businesses

People Building Businesses is a podcast from the team at YBF Ventures that tells the stories of the most interesting entrepreneurs and businesses in Australia. Every episode will leave you with nuggets of information to help you on your entrepreneurial journey. It covers origins, bootstrapping, marketing, scaling, recruiting, creating partnerships, securing investment, exiting and all the other steps along the way. A new podcast will be released monthly on all the podcast platforms as well as a video version on YouTube. Presenter: Jason Lim Producers: Joe Harrington / James Moussa

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S1E4: Mingle Seasoning's Jordyn Evans | People Building Businesses S1E4

Jordyn Evans, the founder of Mingle Seasoning , is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses . Mingle is one of the most exciting food products through its online success and its availability in stores across Australia including supermarket giants Coles. In this episode, Jordyn talks about the early 'Breaking Bad' style days creating the flavours in her own kitchen, growing her social audience, taking part in two accelerator programs, imposter syndrome, getting people to join her o...

Jul 14, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 4

S1E3: Square's Ben Pfisterer | People Building Businesses S1E3

This week’s guest is Square’s head of APAC Ben Pfisterer. Ben has a hugely impressive career history with roles in Deloitte, Jetstar, NAB and Visa before starting his own company Kinetik Innovation. He moved to Square in 2014 and has overseen its huge growth ever since. The podcast covers his early career with Jetstar and the other corporates, moving to Square, his relationship with Jack Dorsey, the company's focus on regional Australia, their product range, their mission and more. You can subsc...

Jun 30, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 3

S1E2: VendorPanel's James Leathem | People Building Businesses S1E2

James Leathem , the founder of VendorPanel , is the guest on this episode of People Building Businesses . His honesty and transparency in this interview is remarkable and we thinks there's something in it for everyone. VendorPanel is a leading Australian procurement platform. It was named one of the Top 20 Westpac Businesses of Tomorrow in 2018, and received an award for Most Innovative Use of Technology from the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. You can subscribe to People Building...

Jun 16, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 2

S1E1: Code Like A Girl's Ally Watson | People Building Businesses S1E1

Code Like A Girl CEO and co-founder Ally Watson is our guest on this episode of People Building Businesses. With a background in computer science, Ally embarked on a career as a software engineer and developer before founding social enterprise Code Like A Girl in 2015. Code Like a Girl is best known for running coding workshops for girls aged between six and 18, but it does a lot more, and the startup has reached over 2,000 girls over the past two years. The Sydney Morning Herald named Ally as o...

Jun 16, 2019•58 min•Season 1Ep. 1

S1Introducing... People Building Businesses by YBF Ventures

People Building Businesses is the brand new podcast from the team at YBF Ventures . The podcast will focus on how startups and companies grow. From the first days of the business, to looking for investment, scaling, recruitment and beyond. We want to know exactly how it’s done from people who have done it. We have an amazing line-up of guests coming your way over the next few months. Subscribe now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

May 03, 2019•1 min

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