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ATP Stories: Phil Morle – Partner, Main Sequence Ventures; Former CEO Pollenizer
Category: Business
Duration: 01:02:11
Publish Date: 2018-01-29 03:42:00
Description:

Podcast highlights:

  • 15:18 How Phil Morle joined the team that created Kazaa, the platform that changed file sharing and peer-to-peer networks forever
  • 35:11 How Pollenizer got put on the map from funding, investing in, and eventually incubating the success of multiple companies and businesses
  • 57:24 Moving beyond silos and labs - how people working in one area can observe the action going on in other spaces and become more effective in building the future

Podcast notes:

  • 00:09 Introduction to Phil Morle, partner at Main Sequence Ventures
  • 03:47 How Phil learned the crucial startup skills of finding ideas, selling, and motivating teams from his creative experience as a theater director
  • 05:09 The eye-opening similarities between theater productions and the startup business
  • 08:00 How Phil focused on the startup’s story as the pitch and first step to get Main Sequence Ventures up and running on a high note
  • 12:18 Phil’s foray into web development while he was doing theater
  • 15:18 How Phil Morle joined the team that created Kazaa, the platform that changed file sharing and peer-to-peer networks forever
  • 19:24 The skills of an excellent entrepreneur and notable products and services they made that revolutionized how we live and work today
  • 24:20 Bouncing between central servers and peer-to-peer networks for better communication tools and media distribution
  • 28:46 How pioneering entrepreneurs come to see the world after decades of experience making things happen
  • 31:02 The story of Pollenizer and the community that formed around it following Phil’s time at Kazaa
  • 35:11 How Pollenizer got put on the map from funding, investing in, and eventually incubating the success of multiple companies and businesses
  • 40:52 How Pollenizer kept their momentum going by seeing themselves as both the founders and incubators of the companies they launched to success
  • 44:02 The beginning of a new era - Phil’s move from Pollenizer to Main Sequence Ventures and an opportunity to make an even bigger and more personal impact
  • 48:06 Phil’s venture into the budding new field of deep tech - how an entrepreneur and a community of scientists combined their strengths to create innovative solutions
  • 52:59 Phil goes into detail about what Main Sequence Ventures and the Australian government’s federal research agency CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) is all about
  • 55:11 Looking back on how Phil’s philosophy of living in the future shaped Kazaa, Pollenizer, and Main Sequence Ventures and made several visions a reality
  • 57:24 Moving beyond silos and labs - how people working in one area can observe the action going on in other spaces and become more effective in building the future
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