The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal
Described by our listeners as “meticulously researched biographies" and "I learnt more about the guest from your episode even after 10+ years of knowing the guest" -- excerpts of the podcast have been featured in Forbes, AFR, Daily Telegraph, and showcased at SXSW.
Since 2020, more than 60% of our guests have done their *first-ever* public interview—or their *first in years*—on The High Flyers Podcast, including:
➝ Malcolm Turnbull: Prime Minister of Australia
➝ Michael Schneider: CEO, Bunnings
➝ Anil Sabharwal: Built/Led Google Photos, Chrome, Drive
➝ Elena Verna: Head of Growth, Lovable
➝ Mark Suster: Co-Founder & Partner, Upfront Ventures
➝ Brad Banducci: CEO, Woolworths
➝ Craig Tiley: CEO, Tennis Australia & Australian Open
➝ Jean-Michel Limieux: CTO, Shopify and Atlassian
➝ Gillian Findlay: COO, Immutable & SafetyCulture
➝ Holly Kramer: Board Director, Woolworths & ANZ Bank
➝ Sam Sicilia: Chief Investment Officer, Hostplus
➝ Ahmed Fahour: CEO, NAB & Australia Post
➝ Piruze Sabunci: Partner, Squarepeg; Stripe's first Asia hire
➝ Andrey Khusid: CEO & Co-Founder, Miro
➝ Bill Bartee: Co-Founder Blackbird + Main Sequence
➝ Rod Hamilton: Co-Founder & CPO, Culture Amp
➝ Larry Marshall: CEO, CSIRO
➝ Brendan Hargreaves: CFO, Officeworks
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Email: [email protected]
Website: https://highflyerspodcast.com/
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 222
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#222 Tim Thomas: From Melbourne to Asia to Canberra; Leading Australia’s India Strategy and the $10 Trillion Opportunity Ahead
Tim Thomas is the recent CEO of the Centre for Australia-India Relations, the federal body set up by the Australian Government to deepen ties between the two nations across business, technology, educ…
#221 Kelly Vohs: SafetyCulture's CEO on becoming a US Army Green Beret, Inverted Pyramid Leadership and Building for 100M Workers
Kelly Vohs is the CEO of SafetyCulture, a globally renowned tech company headquartered in Australia. Valued at approximately $2.5 billion, its platform serves 85,000+ organisations across 180+ countr…
#220 Trent Cotchin: One of AFL’s All-time greats on Staying Grounded and Leading Richmond Tigers to 3 Premierships!
Trent Cotchin is Richmond’s three-time premiership captain, 2012 Brownlow Medallist and one of the AFL’s most respected leaders. Across 16 years and 306 games, Trent led the Tigers from decades of st…
#219 Orica’s CEO Sanjeev Gandhi: Mumbai to Germany, Japan & Australia — Breaking Barriers for Indian Leaders
Episode #219 features Sanjeev Gandhi, Managing Director and CEO of Orica — a Melbourne-headquartered global leader in mining and infrastructure solutions. Sanjeev spent 26 years with BASF, where he h…
#218 How Husband-Wife Duo Pip & Amy Turned Redundancy & AI Into "Springboards"- Raising $5M to Inspire Creativity
Pip & Amy are the co-founders of Springboards -- an AI platform built for agencies, by agency veterans.
They are also Husband and wife, ex-agency misfits and self described - accidental founders. From…
#217 Elena Verna: Leading Growth at Lovable (the World’s Fastest-Growing Startup today, Reaching $100M in 8 Months)
Elena Verna is a renowned growth advisor to tech startups, and currently heads Growth at Lovable, one of the fastest growing tech startups globally -- where she helped the AI-native company reach $80…
#216 Max Marchione: Escaping the Sandpit, Defying Credentials, How "Superpower" Is Redefining Healthcare (His Most In-Depth Interview Yet)
Max Marchione is the co-founde of Superpower, a San Francisco-based digital clinic making preventative, longevity-focused medicine accessible to millions. At just 25, Max has raised a $30M (USD) Seri…
#215 Brendan Hargreaves: Officeworks CFO on Quiet Influence & Finance Mastery in public and private companies
Brendan Hargreaves is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Officeworks, a $3B+ business with over 170 stores and 8,000+ team members. Previously, he held senior commercial and financial roles at Qant…
#214 Simon Molnar: Jewellery store learnings to building Afterpay with his brother Nick and now redefining retail with Flagship
Simon Molnar is the founder and CEO of Flagship, the startup helping retailers use data to optimise their physical stores. Previously, he co-founded Ice Jewellery and led data and marketing at Afterp…
#213 Dr. Bec Sheean: FightMND’s Research Director on Beating Motor Neurone Disease + AFL, Beanies & Big Freeze
Dr Bec Sheean is the Director of Research and Programs at FightMND, leading strategy across all funded research and initiatives to accelerate progress against Motor Neurone Disease.
With a PhD in neur…
#212 Shannon Scott: Leading product at Airwallex globally, Small-Town Skiing, Building Palantir outside the US as employee #100
Shannon Scott is the Senior Vice President, Global Head of Product at Airwallex, and Executive Director of Airwallex's Australia and New Zealand business entities. Shannon is responsible for Airwalle…
#211 How Go1 Promotes From Within ft. their CEO, SVP Marketing & VP Product (Playbooks Report Feature)
This episode is part of our recently released Startup Playbooks Report -- unpacking the playbooks of 9 of Australia’s fastest-growing startups and scale ups for the first time. Thanks to the report s…
#210 Heidi's US & UK Expansion — Lessons from the Startup Growing Faster Than Canva (Playbooks Report Feature)
This episode is part of our recently released Startup Playbooks Report -- unpacking the playbooks of 9 of Australia’s fastest-growing startups and scale ups for the first time. Thanks to the report s…
#209 Andrew McCarthy: Leading Notion in SEA, India, AU/NZ; Rowing, Grandfather's influence, Learning Sales at LinkedIn
Andrew is the General Manager (GM) for Australia/New Zealand, South East Asia and India at Notion. With over 20 years of sales and sales leadership experience — including helping launch LinkedIn in A…
#208 Simon Baume: Raised on Logic, Hardened by Chaos — The Eucalyptus COO’s First-Ever Interview
Simon Baume is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Eucalyptus, a global healthtech company valued at over $500 million and backed by Investors including Blackbird and Bond. Eucalyptus builds digital…
#207 Craig Tiley: Rare Interview Ft. Tennis Australia CEO on Army Lessons, Leading the Australian Open, and Tennis’s Future
Craig Tiley is the CEO of Tennis Australia and long-time Tournament Director of the Australian Open — the largest annual sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere and the most-watched global sporting…
#206 Employment Hero’s Ben Thompson: Business builder, Demistifying Employment and His Son’s Rare Disease
Ben Thompson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Employment Hero — one of Australia’s most successful tech companies, valued at over A$2 billion and used by more than 300,000 businesses worldwide. Before th…
#205 Gill Findlay: Rare Interview ft. the Powerhouse COO Behind SafetyCulture & Immutable; Career Planning & "Friend" over title
Gill Findlay is the former COO of SafetyCulture and Immutable — two of most influential tech companies globally to originate from Australia. She scaled SafetyCulture from <$1M to $30M ARR, helped pro…
#204 Miro’s Founder Andrey Khusid (LIVE): Rare Interview — Scaling from Whiteboard Tool to $17.5B Giant with 90M+ users
Andrey Khusid is the founder and CEO of Miro, the world’s leading visual collaboration platform used by 90M+ users with $400M+ in ARR and a $17.5B valuation.
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#203 Airtasker’s CEO Tim Fung: Asian-Australian Roots, Happiness, Formula 1 sponsorships, and public company realities
Tim Fung is the founder and CEO of Airtasker, the leading local services marketplace with over $1.7 billion in job creation and a community of more than 2 million users. Since launching in 2012, Tim …