Michael Batko, CEO of Startmate is head one of the biggest and most successful accelerator programmes in Australia.
In this episode, we kicked off by talking about:
- Michael's journey from his education to him moving from Europe to work in Australia with startups like Expert360 & MadPaws, to currently serve as the CEO of Startmate
- Michael also shares some of his guiding principles in the form Operating Systems which he has developed over the years which he applies into solving problems
- We went a little deeper on and discussed principles that you could use to reverse engineer luck and increase one's 'Surface Area'
- And ended with some of the Covid-19 impacts on the startup scene