Wild Hearts

Harrison.ai [http://harrison.ai/] is partnering with leading healthcare companies to build AI products at never-before-seen speeds in the industry 🤓 “If you look at the health system across the world, inequality and the capacity of the system are going to be the biggest problems of our time.” “The 20th century in medicine was the century of the molecule… but I believe that the 21st century is going to be about zooming out and looking at the healthcare system as a whole.” Dr. Aengus Tran [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aengustran/] is on a mission to improve the standard of care for a million people every day. 💙 Saving a million lives a day with Dr. Aengus Tran and Samantha WongHighlights from S2 E6 of our Wild Hearts podcast with harrison.ai co-founder D [https://www.linkedin.com/in/phoebe-gardner/]r. Aengus Tran [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aengustran/] and Blackbird Partner Samantha Wong [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthawong/]: * How harrison.ai [http://harrison.ai/] built a product in 18 months that is now used for 1 in 4 chest x-rays in Australia 🤯 * What Aengus learned from Vietnam's “Father of computer science.” 👨‍💻 * The simple math behind the biggest problem of our century 😱 * The inevitable future of the healthcare industry according to Samantha Wong 🤓

FL0 supercharges back-end engineers with the power of a low-code format, letting developers build 20x faster. The team is pioneering a new category in software engineering, “Dev Acceleration as a Service”. "Fl0 is a lego kit of blocks for modern engineers. Developers can assemble these blocks together, then build and ship complex applications without needing to code.” says Dale the co-founder of FL0. They’re pioneering a new category in software engineering, “Dev Acceleration as a Service”. Highlights from S2 E4 of our Wild Hearts podcast with FL0 co-founder Dale Brett [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_mIp1PBH0qzb8VC_6H9eYHtr32U3_5nhAOImDVCGqAM/edit#] and Blackbird Principal Tom Humphrey [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_mIp1PBH0qzb8VC_6H9eYHtr32U3_5nhAOImDVCGqAM/edit#]: * How 10 years of building startups led to the unique insight that created FL0 🧐 * Finding product-market fit in 2021 🦸‍♀️ * How FL0 is thinking about its GTM alongside pioneering a new category 🏃‍♀️ * How to use fundraising to build a village of support around your startup 🏘 * A framework for thinking about GTM right at the beginning. Here [https://blackbird.vc/blog/finding-gtm-plg-series-1/] is the blog Tom & Mason referred to. See FL0's job openings here [https://www.fl0.com/careers].

Building the best teams of the future means celebrating the silent heroes who hold teams together, understanding who isn’t receiving the support they need, and practicing diversity, equity, and inclusion intelligently “We’re in this engineering effectiveness space… but the culture, the people side, that’s the heart of it for us. The outputs and how we measure them, that’s a function of how the people are doing.” Multitudes [https://www.multitudes.co/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=ffcb0cc51a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-ffcb0cc51a-&mc_cid=ffcb0cc51a&mc_eid=UNIQID] is using data to create happier, higher-performing teams. Find the teams jobs board here: https://www.multitudes.co/careers Highlights from Season 2 Episode 3 of Wild Hearts with Multitudes co-founder Lauren Peate [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lpeate/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=ffcb0cc51a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-ffcb0cc51a-&mc_cid=ffcb0cc51a&mc_eid=UNIQID] and Blackbird partner Samantha Wong [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthawong/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=ffcb0cc51a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-ffcb0cc51a-&mc_cid=ffcb0cc51a&mc_eid=UNIQID] * What Lauren learned about teamwork and culture from four years running a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy. * How Multitudes found product-market fit and built culture into their team from day one. * How to recognise the silent heroes in your teams who give feedback, mentorship, and improve everything. * How leaders can embrace the uncomfortable to make meaningful change in workplaces. * How a parallel fundraising process helps startups raise quicker.

Welcome to the second coming of Vow [https://www.vowfood.com/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=f5db93a5a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-f5db93a5a5-&mc_cid=f5db93a5a5&mc_eid=UNIQID]! Today, we speak with George Peppou [https://www.linkedin.com/in/peppou/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=f5db93a5a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-f5db93a5a5-&mc_cid=f5db93a5a5&mc_eid=UNIQID] [https://blackbird.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8c30544623cbe78c434832e7&id=9480bea6c2&e=672e614dbe&utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=f5db93a5a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-f5db93a5a5-&mc_cid=f5db93a5a5&mc_eid=UNIQID]and Tim Noakesmith [https://www.linkedin.com/in/noakesmith/?originalSubdomain=au&utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=f5db93a5a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-f5db93a5a5-&mc_cid=f5db93a5a5&mc_eid=UNIQID], co-founders of Vow [https://blackbird.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8c30544623cbe78c434832e7&id=0547bb9499&e=672e614dbe&utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=f5db93a5a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-f5db93a5a5-&mc_cid=f5db93a5a5&mc_eid=UNIQID], as well as Ellen Dinsmoor [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-dinsmoor-593a6249/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=f5db93a5a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-f5db93a5a5-&mc_cid=f5db93a5a5&mc_eid=UNIQID], Vow’s Head of Operations, and Samantha Wong, a General Partner at Blackbird Ventures. This team is revolutionising cuisine by tapping into the vast biosphere of potential foods that humanity has been unable to sustainably farm. Through synthetic biology, they lift this limitation and pave the way for a third agricultural revolution, one that is ethical, abundant, and importantly, irresistibly delicious. Since our last episode with Vow, they have more than doubled in team size and have continued to crush the technical challenges before them with blistering speed. Listen in to today’s show to hear how George and Tim are building a dream team of technical and non-technical talent, their fresh approach to product building, and how the future of cultured meats is developing. “For us this is going to be about connecting the depths of biology with the depths of food science, to make foods that outpace anything that animal meats have in terms of their sensory and performance enhancing attributes.” We also chat with Head of Operations Ellen to discover how Vow have approached technology to bring their team to new heights. “How do we not just automate things, but how do we use technology to make people super humans?” Finally, we’ll speak with Blackbird Partner Sam Wong [https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthawong/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=f5db93a5a5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-f5db93a5a5-&mc_cid=f5db93a5a5&mc_eid=UNIQID] to learn how she’s thinking about the future of food, what she’s most excited about with Vow, and how her investment thesis has evolved in light of this. Head to Vow's jobs board to see the open roles below:https://www.vowfood.com/careers

Welcome back to Season Two of the Wild Hearts podcast. To kick off the season, we’re speaking to our very first guest on this podcast [https://blackbird.vc/blog/wild-hearts-earn-the-right-to-exist-with-tim-doyle/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=53233267b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-53233267b8-&mc_cid=53233267b8&mc_eid=UNIQID]: Tim Doyle [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-doyle-11b48a14/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=53233267b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-53233267b8-&mc_cid=53233267b8&mc_eid=UNIQID], co-founder of Eucalyptus [https://eucalyptus.vc/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=53233267b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-53233267b8-&mc_cid=53233267b8&mc_eid=UNIQID], a startup that dreams, builds and runs digital healthcare companies. Want to join Eucalyptus? Find the jobs board here [https://www.eucalyptus.vc/]. Episode interviewees: Tim Doyle [https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-doyle-11b48a14/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=53233267b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-53233267b8-&mc_cid=53233267b8&mc_eid=UNIQID], co-founder of Eucalyptus and Nick Crocker [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholascrocker/?utm_source=Blackbird+Community&utm_campaign=53233267b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_09_01_45_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0684d05ddb-53233267b8-&mc_cid=53233267b8&mc_eid=UNIQID], General Partner at Blackbird Key topics covered: * The challenges and opportunities of healthcare * Which experiments are helping Eucalyptus scale beyond 100 people * How the company's ambition has grown over the past year The best of Tim Doyle: * "If you can make medical information accessible and engaging, you can empower better decisions at a much earlier point. * "If you don't maximise the amount of time that your organisation is fully stocked and ready to work on the problem that you're trying to solve at the hardest level, then you probably rob yourself of the chance to solve that problem by the time you next need to go back out to market" * "One of the things about being a founder of a company is that you realise how much better people in your organisation are at most things than you are very quickly." * "Our philosophy on marketing is that if you product enough stuff in enough channels, often enough, then you lower the cost of doing that, and then the best stuff will outperform the average stuff by a thousand percent." The best of Nick Crocker: * "The execution is pretty spectacular. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's stunning to watch." * "Visionary founders are most impactful when they're partnered with an operational psychopath...someone who's completely true, completely across everything and fearless in throwing themselves into unknown, dense, difficult to understand areas." * Growing 10% in your first month is very different to growing 10% in your 24th month" * "It's not just people buying ads. It's a growth engineering team...a resource allocation team in a really complex problem space."