What makes a good mentor? And what should you do to be a good mentee? In our final episode of Level Up, we'll answer these questions and talk about how to get started with your own mentorship relationship.We're joined by Lucy Lloyd, Co-founder

4.9 Question everything

Nov 16th, 2020 25m 4s

Katy Stevens had already built a career working in Customer Success (with experience in huge corporations like Microsoft) when she met her future mentor, Didier Elzinga. Little did she know, Didier was about to make her question everything …Sh

4.8 Evolving together

Nov 9th, 2020 20m 48s

Today's episode captures one of the more unique styles of mentoring relationships — 'co-mentoring'.Mark and Marty are, independently, two very successful entrepreneurs. And they've joined forces to leverage the power of co-mentoring one anothe

4.7 Confronting the unique issues women face as founders

Nov 2nd, 2020 26m 34s

With success comes unexpected challenges. And Renee found this out the hard way …Renee Moore is the Founder and CEO of Cinch Skin, a multi-award-winning skincare brand that exploded onto the shelves of Priceline — one of Australia's largest be

4.6 Conquering the chaos

Oct 26th, 2020 21m 26s

Kinfolk is a social enterprise cafe that provides training and work experience for people in marginalised communities. It was started by Jarrod Briffa, who's lack of hospitality experience often led to struggles. Enter Paul McConville, a loyal

4.5 Navigating a male-dominated industry

Oct 19th, 2020 24m 4s

Liz B, and her mentor Jacqui Loustau, are two powerful women working in cybersecurity. They first crossed paths at an industry event where Liz made quite an impression on Jacqui before they even spoke for the first time.Fast forward to today,

4.4 Facing conflict head-on

Oct 12th, 2020 19m 28s

Australian radio legend, Jules Lund, had a great business idea and the determination, confidence and contacts to pull it off. However, he quickly realised that although he had the enthusiasm, he didn't quite have the business acumen to make TRI

4.3 It's hard work (but we have fun along the way)

Oct 5th, 2020 20m 13s

This story begins with Kirsteene Phelan throwing it all on the line. After she witnesses Rome2rio's CEO, Rod Cuthbert, meeting with a PR firm in their shared office space, she saunters over and tells him to ditch the PR firm and hire her instea

4.2 Growing through discomfort

Sep 28th, 2020 20m 39s

Disrupting a billion-dollar industry can prove to be a … traumatic experience. At least, that’s what DJ Dikic discovered when building Palette and Tint — two really exciting start-ups — with the mission to change the century-old industry of pai

4.1 The quest to level up

Sep 21st, 2020 27m 18s

In this episode, we follow one company on a journey of growth. Nathan Chan is the CEO of Foundr Magazine, an online media and education business which is fast becoming the go-to online source for entrepreneurs and start-ups.Over the years, Nat

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Season 4 - Level Up

Sep 14th, 2020 3m 30s

You've definitely heard the stories about visionary entrepreneurs and how they built their companies to incredible heights. But behind these icons of business, there's a story which often goes untold ... the story of the mentorship that helped

3.8 Horizons

Oct 8th, 2019 26m 42s

Envato's capacity to create new products is relentless.They don't all work but there's one product that's tipped to be a very large part of the business in the coming years. Even in the early days of the company it had created not one but thr

3.7 Like a spaceship

Sep 15th, 2019 26m 52s

Envato is strangely unencumbered by external deadlines, forces, companies, weather, politics and many other things that traditional businesses might be. In the head office on King Street there’s a peculiar but positive sense of calm that exist

3.6 Hunting people down

Sep 6th, 2019 17m 28s

You've never heard of a company profit share like this.Wanting to take a more systematic approach to how the company shares its profit the team at the top gets a small team in HR together to keep a secret and get busy.What they do will only e

3.5 It’s all miserable, please help.

Aug 20th, 2019 19m 22s

Being a huge website makes you a big target for people with bad intentions.And when they decide to act it can often come in the form of a distributed denial of service attack - a DDOS attack.What happens when Envato's targeted and how do they

3.4 Such a weird number

Aug 12th, 2019 26m 3s

"When the community succeeds, we succeed"One of the the values (see last episode) and emblematic of the focus Envato retains on its treasured and longtime community of authors.Building the global community has been a focus from the start.It

3.3 Tell it like it is

Aug 4th, 2019 24m 53s

In a Friday meeting Collis Ta'eed's phone starts buzzing. Someone appears at the window. Then half the executive team are waiting outside.Something's going on.It's one thing to have values, it's another to stand by them even if it negatively

3.2 A bootstrapped war chest

Jul 28th, 2019 21m 45s

Envato has never taken outside investment. For a tech company if this size that’s a very rare feat.While many start ups chase venture capital to aid growth, validation and scale, Envato has been building over a decade uninfluenced by investors

3.1 Who needs Times Square?

Jul 21st, 2019 31m 54s

What's it like to join Envato?The process from the outside to inside reveals some telling characteristics of Envato’s culture and values.People from around the world are landing in Melbourne to start work on King Street.Scale Up is a podcast

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Season 3 - Envato

Jul 14th, 2019 4m 10s

This season we look into a Victorian company that's best described as a spaceship.Experiencing Envato from within makes the world outside that's not on either side of the marketplace almost irrelevant.Though it's in Envato's powerful and huma

2.8 They just get it now!

Oct 16th, 2018 39m 5s

Redbubble's First XI travel to Sydney. It's been a 10 year slog to get here.Chairman and CEO stand in front of the gathered crowd at the Australian Securities Exchange while the brass bell waits patiently on the wall behind the lectern.But Re

2.7 Australia's largest global consumer internet company

Oct 7th, 2018 29m 44s

From about day 1 Redbubble's market was the world while it's base has always, except for a brief moment of consideration, remained Melbourne.It's rare for Australian companies to do this immediately for the global market, and even rarer for th

2.6 $1 in damages

Sep 26th, 2018 22m 29s

After a threat in the media, a vote in Federal Parliament and movie partnerships.Redbubble has managed to significantly lessen the chances it will be in court over copyright infringement through a couple of moves and Martin's hard time in the

2.5 It is actually ok

Sep 16th, 2018 21m 21s

Drifting from crisis to crisis in an uncontrolled environment created by yourself, entrepreneurship is hard.And there's a good chance you'll waste a lot of time and hopefully develop some coping mechanisms.Is there a way out if you need it?M

2.4 Pans of boiling water

Sep 10th, 2018 31m 4s

Behind the website is an immense logistics network that Redbubble initiates, drives yet barely owns.We drive to Horsham and meet the very first supplier still printing stickers and artwork to this day.It's just one of 15 suppliers globally th