Every successful Australian tech company follows roughly the same playbook: build the product here, test it in our market, then export it overseas. Atlassian, Canva, Safety Culture—they kept a lot of their engineering and R&D in Australia, while their sales teams conquered international markets. The secret to Australian tech success is to treat it like an export industry. Brandon Sheppard is the COO at Instant and has been in Australian tech since 2012—back when major VC funds...
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Every successful Australian tech company follows roughly the same playbook: build the product here, test it in our market, then export it overseas. Atlassian, Canva, Safety Culture—they kept a lot of their engineering and R&D in Australia, while their sales teams conquered international markets. The secret to Australian tech success is to treat it like an export industry. Brandon Sheppard is the COO at Instant and has been in Australian tech since 2012—back when major VC funds...
Jessy Wu: what Australian venture capital might be missing
The Inflection Points Podcast
47 minutes
2 weeks ago
Jessy Wu: what Australian venture capital might be missing
In this podcast episode, we're joined by Jessy Wu, who spent four years on the inside of Australian venture capital, first at NAB Ventures, and then as a partner at AfterWork Ventures. She was part of a team that deployed $20 million into 30 companies, building a community-powered model that challenged how VC traditionally works. And then she left. Not for another fund, not for a bigger partnership, but to build the kind of company that would never be in the mandate of a VC fund—a professiona...
The Inflection Points Podcast
Every successful Australian tech company follows roughly the same playbook: build the product here, test it in our market, then export it overseas. Atlassian, Canva, Safety Culture—they kept a lot of their engineering and R&D in Australia, while their sales teams conquered international markets. The secret to Australian tech success is to treat it like an export industry. Brandon Sheppard is the COO at Instant and has been in Australian tech since 2012—back when major VC funds...
