Wild Hearts

Auteur(s): Blackbird Ventures
  • Résumé

  • Wild Hearts is the podcast that reveals the real-time lessons from the founders and operators changing the world.
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Épisodes
  • The COO Perspective: tech, education and innovation with Stephanie Carullo
    Jan 21 2025
    Discover how Stephanie Carullo from Box and Apple, transformed education through technology. In this episode, she shares the pivotal moments that redefined classrooms, the culture at Apple, and her vision for the future of AI in learning. 🔑 Why Apple’s "life's best work" mantra fosters trust and accountability across teams 📱 The revolutionary impact of the iPad on education and its role in transforming classrooms worldwide 📖 The secret to embedding Apple’s culture of clarity, strategy, and communication in organisations 🌟 How critical thinking and problem-solving are the most important skills for future leaders 🤖 Why AI is poised to revolutionise education, featuring insights from Khan Academy's AI tutor 👩‍💼 Stephanie’s role as COO at Box: Coordinating customer-focused strategies for sustained growth 📈 How to balance rapid growth and operational efficiency in the competitive SaaS industry 🌍 Lessons from Apple and Box on fostering innovation and creating meaningful impact at scale Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, an educator, or a leader, join us to learn how Stephanie fostered trust, tackled challenges, and leveraged technology to drive education and innovation to new heights.
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    1 h et 6 min
  • Rockets made in Australia: Taking on the global space race with Adam Gilmour
    Jan 14 2025
    What does it take to launch Australia into the global space race? For Adam Gilmour, CEO and founder of Gilmour Space Technologies, the answer is a bold vision, relentless innovation, and an unwavering commitment from a founder and their team. In this episode of Wild Hearts, Adam shares the highs, lows, and lessons learned as he prepares for the first Australian-made rocket launch from Australian soil. Throughout the episode, we cover: 🚀 Adam Gilmour’s bold vision to enable human colonisation of the solar system 🧠 The rollercoaster highs and lows of building rockets from scratch in Australia 📊 How simplicity drives innovation: lessons from aerospace engineering 🌍 The importance of milestones in the rocket business and how they shape progress 🔄 Bootstrapping a space company with a small team and big dreams 🎯 Why launching from Australia provides unique orbital opportunities 💡 Navigating regulatory hurdles and securing trust in a high-risk industry 🌌 Adam’s predictions for humanity’s expansion into the solar system and beyond Adam Gilmour’s story isn’t just about rockets—it’s a testament to resilience, innovation, and the boundless potential of human ambition 🚀
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    51 min
  • REPLAY | The view from the top with Flavia Nardina
    Jan 8 2025
    Join us as we dive into the archives of Wild Hearts to re-live some of our favourite episodes! Flavia is connecting everything on earth via sending toaster sized satellites into low earth orbit. In the second episode of, host Mason Yates speaks to co-founder and CEO Flavia Tata Nardini and Blackbird Partner Niki Scevak about the rocket science company that is connecting everything on earth. Key topics covered: How the next industrial revolution will be in space. The unique challenges facing space start-ups. The small data revolution. The importance of having a focused market. What Fleet did to shorten their customer feedback loop. Why a CEO has to be everywhere. The best of Flavia Tata Nardini: "Focus is the biggest lesson I’ve learned in the startup world.” “A lot of people talk about big data, we hated the word, it was just bullshit. So we called it a small data revolution. Just get a little piece of data. The smart data.” “The [space] industry has got ninety percent awareness of everything that’s deployed. They just make decisions in a way that is not right. We want to change this, we want to give [everyone] full visibility. The problem has always been that connectivity was not present or super expensive.” “We decided to fire all our customers that were tiny and focus like crazy in working with big energy companies and others.” “You need to be a believer, you need to believe [in your product] in the first five to six years like crazy.” “You cannot let people build you a product [and think] they will build it for you the way you wanted it. You have to be there. You have to do it. You have to show them the path." Niki Scevak on Flavia Tata Nardini and Fleet: “The ability to do something you could not do before to this huge industry, and to make it a hundred X cheaper was incredibly exciting." “As much as it was about space, it was about the opportunity to build a telecommunications network for a tiny amount of money.” “When you compare space startups to software startups, the disadvantages are around feedback loops." “How Flavia in particular has wrangled people from around the world … I think it’s just incredible coordination and project management to get things to happen with not a lot of money and certainly with not a lot of structure." “You have to divorce the outcome of something from the weighted probability of doing it.” “You need to keep shooting. Luck is a process, you have to expose yourself to be lucky.
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    42 min

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