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Ask HN: I'm doing a podcast on Australian tech stories, any suggestions?
My name is Andrew Stuart and I'm commencing a podcast interview show soon where I'll be interviewing tech startups, founders, developers, anyone doing something interesting in technology, business and software with a strong connection to Australia.
Australia is full of smart people, business people, software people and there's a great deal of exciting startups, companies and projects happening in Aus. I want to surface some of those stories.
I want to find out the origin stories, how things came to be, who had the ideas, who built it, how did the ideas change over time, what were the hard bits, where did the money come from, what is the future vision. A bit Mixergy, a bit Jason Calacanis, but more willing to talk tech as well as business.
Anyone got any suggestions of interesting people, companies or stories as a start point for my research into who to interview?
Post ideas in comments or my email address is at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=floobyhoob
- tonteldoos 9y agoThis would be great to see/listen to! No specific suggestions from my end (other than Atlassian, obviously ;-) ), but perhaps contact incubators in the major cities directly, and see if they have suggestions, or people interested in sharing their stories?
- djsumdog 9y agoI'd go to meetups and find people who are giving interesting talks. I've done talks with Melbourne JVM/Java Meetup as well as the Perth Java meetup and there are some pretty cool people/topics there. If you're in Melbourne, you can also talk to people at the Inspire9 co-working space. Lot's of talented devs and engineers there.
- karljtaylor 9y agoI'd love to hear the Tribe folks, they're in kind of a unique position of being able to take advantage of Australia's lax influencer laws at a time the US is cracking down.
- djsumdog 9y agoAlso I'd be interested in subscribing to this podcast. Could you e-mail the address on my profile with an RSS feed when you go live?
- tony-allan 9y agoWell known companies that were started by Australians... Some companies downplay their origins so as not to put off US audiences.
- daniel_iversen 9y agoIt'd be great to hear from Atlassian, Campaign Monitor, Canva and GradeProof
- tmnvix 9y agoIt's been touched on recently in the media, but BuiltWith has an interesting story.
- vinayakfrshdesk 9y agoCheck out HiveXchange. They are one of our customers and are doing really cool things in the produce trade business. We had done a case study with them that you can check out here. https://blog.freshsales.io/hivexchange-case-study/ https://blog.freshsales.io/hivexchange-case-study/
- JSeymourATL 9y agoWould enjoy hearing an update on Melanie Perkins of Canva > http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/14/canva-ceo-melanie-perkins-on-creating-a-multi-million-dollar-com_a_21472388/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/14/canva-ceo-melani...