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Wild Hearts

By: Blackbird Ventures
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  • Wild Hearts is the podcast that reveals the secrets from the founders looking to the change the world.
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  • Holly Cardew, Founder and CEO of Carted on connecting shoppers to every product on the planet

    Holly Cardew, Founder and CEO of Carted on connecting shoppers to every product on the planet
    Dec 19 2023
    Forget what you think you know about building a new e-commerce experience because Carted sees the world differently. It’s a world where the merchant is no longer the only focus for commerce innovation. In this episode, we talk to Holly Cardew, Carted’s Founder, about how they are changing the future of shopping by standardising and organising the world’s products into a shoppable knowledge graph.     In Carted’s new ecosystem, shoppers are at the centre, and non-traditional commerce platforms will become the new vehicles for the world’s best contextual shopping experiences. As with all big, hard things - the journey is not linear. We touch on the beginnings of their product graph API with permissionless integrations and standardising a billion products, how that led to building a new multi-merchant contextual commerce experience for publishers - and then to where they are today with their consumer-facing API implementation, Swurl.    All of these forked paths have led the team to exactly where they need to be.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Tom Brunskill, Co-Founder and CEO of Forage shares lessons from closing the biggest brands in the world, reshaping employment with education, building a successful salesforce, solving the cold start problem and so much more.

    Tom Brunskill, Co-Founder and CEO of Forage shares lessons from closing the biggest brands in the world, reshaping employment with education, building a successful salesforce, solving the cold start problem and so much more.
    Nov 21 2023
    Reshaping education and employment, with Tom Brunskill, Co-Founder of Forage Forage is on a mission to transform career education and employment. By offering job simulations from leading companies, they enable students to gain real-world skills and experience, enabling them to make more informed decisions about the career they pursue. This innovative approach challenges traditional recruitment methods, focusing on education first to create a more inclusive and diverse talent pool. ✅ How Tom’s unique upbringing primed him to tackle the problem ✅ Transitioning from being an “unhappy lawyer” to founder ✅ Finding the formula for selling to enterprise clients ✅ The challenges of building a category-defining company ✅ The “holy grail” of personalised education Want to learn more? Episode Highlights from Tom: "Instead of hiring first and training second, you should actually be using software that educates the candidate pipeline first and then using that pool of talent and the signals that are surfaced in that experience to hire exceptional candidates"​ “We’re category defining, we’re painting a different future for what recruitment can look like, and that’s challenging. These companies have recruited in a very specific way for a very long time, and it can be challenging to will that future into existence.” "I hope that education does become more responsive to workplace needs... It's about how do you broaden the surface area of luck for young people to end up in roles that do stimulate them"​
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Kiki’s co-founder and CEO, Toby Thomas-Smith describes the beginning of unlocking a new way of living, the mistakes, the deliberate design decisions, growing up with Dyslexia and so much more

    Kiki’s co-founder and CEO, Toby Thomas-Smith describes the beginning of unlocking a new way of living, the mistakes, the deliberate design decisions, growing up with Dyslexia and so much more
    Oct 31 2023
    Unlocking a new way of living with Toby Thomas-Smith, Co-Founder of Kiki Kiki is on a mission to revolutionise the way we live and connect. By leveraging the power of existing social ties, their unique peer-to-peer subletting platform enables users greater flexibility to travel, helping unlock new lifestyles, friendships and savings. ✅Growing a “cult-like” community around the ethos of subletting ✅Lessons from early mistakes launching in New Zealand ✅Launching in New York: Kiki’s global vision Episode Highlights from Toby: “If we can pull this off, we're gonna change how a billion people live, and unchain a billion people from their rent.” “Stop trying to boil the whole ocean. Find one rock pool. Boil the hell out of that rock pool… Build an ocean of rock pools… That’s why we ended up pivoting from the whole of Sydney, just to Bondi.” [In the app] “Every single thing you see is intentional. For example… the first thing we push is the name of the person whose place it is. Person. This is not fucking Bondi bubble pad. This is Jenny's home, you know, Jenny's actual home… it's about people, it's about the connection.” “We've literally had people run up to me in the street, cry in my arms, because they got to see their grandma for the last time before she passed away. Because they were able to go back and see her because they didn’t have to pay rent while they were gone.” “New York is literally in crisis, it couldn't be worse to be honest. You know, people are paying 2. 5 times more rent on average than people in Sydney.”
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    1 hr and 13 mins
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