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Startup Theatre Podcast

Exploring the wins, challenges, & lessons from startups. Honest conversations, real insights, and everything in between. Troy Hammond & Serge van Dam, with deep roots in the startup ecosystem in New Zealand and beyond, explore the world of startups, tech, markets, and media. They break down industry trends, uncover the realities of scaling companies, and share expert insights through candid conversations. Each episode features top founders, operators, investors, and innovators, offering lessons, perspectives, and stories from the frontlines of business and technology.

PAM, My AI product takes care of your mental load 🤖🫶🏻

67 hours 35 mins; September 04, 2024

How Beastie Boys lead me to co-founding Xero and now Upstock 🚀

88 hours 55 mins; August 28, 2024

My tech will get you into your first home faster 🏠

75 hours 33 mins; August 21, 2024

Global tech success and I have some unfinished business

65 hours 34 mins; August 15, 2024

90% of startups FAIL. Only 3% of our portfolio have failed 🤯

70 hours 29 mins; August 07, 2024

Business is not boring with Simon Pound

68 hours 2 mins; August 01, 2024

Making a documentary about Richie McCaw led me to a tech start-up

68 hours 44 mins; July 24, 2024

Over half of NZ’s internet users are using TikTok 🤯

67 hours 37 mins; July 17, 2024

I have Aphantasia. The inability to visualise & I’m a VC!

57 mins; July 11, 2024

The future of digital currency is inevitable 💲

57 mins; July 03, 2024

Failure is not an option is stopping breast cancer.

79 hours 12 mins; June 26, 2024

A world where neither time nor talent is wasted

63 hours 57 mins; June 19, 2024

Our commercial model is to make you wealthy

61 hours 46 mins; June 12, 2024

It's not "Survive to '25, it's Drive to '25"

75 hours 20 mins; June 05, 2024

"How I built New Zealand's most successful payroll company!"

78 hours 3 mins; May 29, 2024

New Zealand. You too can change the WORLD! 🌏

63 hours 14 mins; May 22, 2024

It takes a village to create 417 startups worth $1.3 B

60 hours 21 mins; May 01, 2024

Let me teach you the Dark Arts of building a SaaS business globally.

66 hours 20 mins; April 24, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is here to solve healthcare: It’s VITAL

64 hours 32 mins; April 17, 2024

Meet the NZ tech founder revolutionising how busy couples connect.

57 mins; April 10, 2024

Out with Mad Men suits, in with Tracksuits: How Conor Archbold is helping to bring brand back.

65 hours 41 mins; April 02, 2024

The compounding snowball is the only way to grow the New Zealand tech ecosystem.

35 mins; November 22, 2023

Shaping the future of healthcare globally is 'Nervciting'

32 mins; November 15, 2023

We sold our AI company to Apple for $200m before we even released the product

31 mins; November 09, 2023

The lighthouse tech companies are showing the path to the rest of the eccosystem

30 mins; November 01, 2023

We built a $39B company in Canva, but we are only 1% of the way there

49 mins; October 25, 2023

Sometimes rockets blow up, so we are helping founders with a tractor.

26 mins; October 24, 2023

My second time founding a successful SaaS company is Joyous

63 hours 8 mins; September 06, 2023

Current startups have a real advantage as we've never known anything but famine

55 mins; August 28, 2023

From NZ to space, from space to everywhere else. How I am sending rockets into space from NZ.

58 mins; August 21, 2023

We exist within the world you’ve created. Bringing your avatar to life

55 mins; August 15, 2023

We might be one of the largest companies on the planet.

56 mins; August 07, 2023

#49, Dr Angela Lim, "An AI-powered mental health company"

56 mins; July 31, 2023

#48, Barney Chunn, "CONQAring the Construction Software Industry"

54 mins; July 24, 2023

#47, Claudia Batten, "Think like a robot, act like a human"

56 mins; July 17, 2023

#46, Marian Johnson, “The Prime Minister of Awesome”👩‍⚖️

61 hours 5 mins; July 12, 2023

#45, Nick Houldsworth, "If you are offered a seat on a rocketship, Just F*@kin Do It!"

82 hours 35 mins; July 10, 2023

#44, Justin Soong, “Hatching a unicorn” 🦄

54 mins; July 05, 2023

#43, Miriana Lowrie, "A CEO's world is: Capital, Strategy & People"

57 mins; July 03, 2023

#42, Barnaby Marshall, "The Truth About Advantage: Money Isn't Everything"

62 hours 44 mins; June 28, 2023

#41, Frances Valintine CNZM, "Follow the adrenaline of risk"

59 mins; June 26, 2023

#40, David Downs, "A mild touch of awesome"

61 hours 8 mins; June 21, 2023

#39, Simon Brown, "Transforming Kids' Relationship with Money”

62 hours 44 mins; June 19, 2023

#38, Kirsti Grant & Phil Thomson, "Magical moments when fighting crime"

69 hours 48 mins; June 14, 2023

#37, Bobby Lloyd, "It pays to be Fussy when pivoting"

69 hours 32 mins; June 12, 2023

#36, Kat Lintott, "I'm a world builder"

67 hours 44 mins; June 08, 2023

#35, Mark Vivian, 'The $600m dollar man'

67 hours 21 mins; June 06, 2023

#34, Pene Barton, "I knew at 23 I would be the CEO"

63 hours 24 mins; May 31, 2023

#33, Charlie Meaden, "Can AI democratise wealth generation for everyone?"

61 hours 23 mins; May 29, 2023

#32, Brooke Roberts, "Want to go Sharesies in some wealth?"

64 hours 26 mins; May 24, 2023

#31, Season 1 wrap, "What makes you happy?"

32 mins; May 18, 2023

#30, Mike Riversdale & Raj Khushal, "What makes you happy now"

100 hours 27 mins; May 03, 2023

#29, Matthew Hayter, "We got acquired before we had even started" 🤯

68 hours 32 mins; April 26, 2023

#28, Carlos Chambers, "Burning the effigy of being a lawyer and founding companies from the ashes 🔥"

71 hours 28 mins; April 20, 2023

#27, John-Daniel Trask, "Are tech companies now just adult daycares?"

65 hours 19 mins; April 05, 2023

#26, Mary Haddock-Staniland, "A mana enhancing wahine"

78 hours 0 mins; April 03, 2023

#25, Mark Clare, "Deal fever"

78 hours 29 mins; March 29, 2023

#24, Kimberley Gilmour, "Highs, lows and comebacks"

65 hours 51 mins; March 27, 2023

#23, Lee Timutimu, "Ka mua, ka muri"

64 hours 6 mins; March 25, 2023

#22, Rachael (Fitzy) Fitzjohn, "I'm not non technical, I'm technical adjacent"

66 hours 39 mins; March 21, 2023

#21, Vaughan Fergusson, "Innovating impossible"

109 hours 8 mins; March 17, 2023

#20, Andréa van der Meel, "Changing the world through consideration"

62 hours 41 mins; March 15, 2023

#19, Danny Smith, The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

66 hours 34 mins; March 12, 2023

#18, Joel Lieser, "The Netflix recommendation engine for Weed"

65 hours 5 mins; March 08, 2023

#17, Dale Clareburt, When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

51 mins; March 06, 2023

#16, James Fuller, In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

55 mins; February 27, 2023

#15, Jess Halley, What can anthropology teach us about startups?

55 mins; February 20, 2023

#14, Miki Szikszai, A failed pilot who built a top gun grad programme.

66 hours 6 mins; February 14, 2023

#13 - Adrienne Muir, Hands on the heart of the business

72 hours 6 mins; February 06, 2023

#12 - Jonty Hodge, Getting Kepla on the 'Awesome Index'

52 mins; January 30, 2023

#11 - Owen Evans, "Enable a space where great work can happen"

80 hours 18 mins; January 23, 2023

#10 - Julie Reddish, Engineering Happiness in tech.

57 mins; January 16, 2023

#9 - Andrew "Tokes" Tokeley, Product Leaders & community

79 hours 6 mins; January 12, 2023

#0 - James Wood, Talent Army's new CEO

59 mins; January 10, 2023

#8 - Kristen Lunman, Say yes to the unknown.

70 hours 45 mins; January 09, 2023

#7 - Ben Pujji, I need two out of three.

75 hours 24 mins; December 21, 2022

#6 - Diana Minnée, Pattern matching

69 hours 38 mins; December 19, 2022

#5 - Mike Dawes, Knocking out suicide.

55 mins; December 11, 2022

#4 - Auriga Martin, Positivity, purpose and innovation.

64 hours 12 mins; December 09, 2022

#3 - Simon Small, A serendipitous journey riding the SaaS elevator

69 hours 11 mins; December 09, 2022

#2 - Alicia McKay, Burnouts and Bourbon

65 hours 11 mins; December 09, 2022

#1 - Serge van Dam, Embracing uncertainty.

55 mins; December 08, 2022

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