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#120 Tim Doyle + Alex Badran: Provocations & Round tables with the founders of Healthcare Tech startup, Eucalyptus and Pocket Money App, Spriggy

Author
Tim Doyle, Alex Badran, Curiosity Center, The High Flyers Podcast, Vidit Agarwal
Published
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Episode Link
https://www.curiositycenter.xyz/podcast

New series! In this episode #120 w Alex Badran and Tim Doyle,  learn about:

  • 02:36 - Alex and Tim’s memories of meeting each other
  • 03:30 - Opportunity in marketing from capital allocation and media management
  • 04:10 - Probabilities and thinking in frameworks
  • 04:57 - Alex’s memories of winning competitions watching cricket
  • 06:56 - Grounding first principles in a logical framework from mathematics
  • 08:14 - Why not enter finance post PhD in math?
  • 10:38 - Career selection and matching interests and skills
  • 12:07 - Balance between data and judgement in decision making
  • 18:05 - Do founders have to evolve thinking from Seed stage to Series B and beyond?
  • 20:28 - Drawing inference to the needs of a population for product building
  • 22:02 - Role of data in performance marketing
  • 23:47 - Campaign at Eucalyptus that surprised Tim the most
  • 25:08 - Current phase of marketing being hyper local optimisation
  • 27:06 - Finding product market fit for the second act of the business
  • 33:24 - Customer problems, business problems, vision
  • 35:06 - Generalist vs specialists
  • 39:10 - Formulating team skill sets
  • 41:15 - Combination of personalities effective at specific times and not others
  • 44:18 - Outsource anything that doesn’t make your beer taste better
  • 47:17 - What makes someone the best?
  • 51:30 - Dreamers, leavers and settlers
  • 54:50 - Transitioning from corporate to a startup
  • 56:42 - Key learning for Alex and Tim in next 6 months

It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

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