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Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

Founder Focus Ep 1: Vu Tran of GO1

Transparent Venture Capital by Tribe Global Ventures

Tribe Global Ventures

Business:investing, Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5.01 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

For our very first podcast, we are genuinely humbled to have been joined by Vu Tran, one of the co-founders of Australian unicorn Go1. For those who don’t know the Go1 story – Go1 is ‘the Spotify for learning content creators’. Started in (and still headquartered in) suburban Brisbane, Go1 now has a global presence, and still helmed by four friends who as a co-founding team have been together for over 16 years – quite a rarity in the world of start-ups.  And a fun fact, when he is not growing one of Australia’s most successful start-ups, Vu also has time to work as a GP one day a week in his local community. Impressive. One of Tribe’s cofounders Elaine Stead invested in Go1 very early in their journey, and this podcast covers that period and much more including: Founder origin storyThe importance of knowing your level, and aiming higher Co-foundership Navigating interpersonal conflict and ego The benefit of hierarchy and explicit co-founder roles and accountability Luck vs skill Difficult and unpopular decisions Risk taking vs gambling Learning from mistakes as the real success coefficient Scaling up mistakes Fundraising and investor types Elaine's rationale for investing early into Go1 around the time they were pivoting from a LMS to a market place The importance of significant others Conviction We hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed making it and please drop any comments below. Tribe Global Ventures

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Transparent VC podcast by Tribe Ventures. I'm Don McKenzie.

0:14.0

In this episode, Aaron, Elaine and I were privileged to have been joined by Voutran, one of the co-founders of Australian Unicorn Go-1. For those who don't

0:22.8

know the Go-1 story, Go-1 is the Spotify for learning content creators, started and still headquartered

0:28.8

in suburban Brisbane. Go-1 now has a global presence and still helmed by four friends who as a

0:35.0

co-founding team have been together for over 16 years, which is a

0:38.6

big rarity in the world of startups.

0:41.5

And a fun fact, when he's not growing one of Australia's most successful startups, Voo still

0:46.0

works as a part-time GP one day a week in his local community.

0:50.0

Now that is impressive.

0:51.7

Now this episode talks about the founder origin story, the importance

0:55.5

of navigating interpersonal conflict, the benefit of hierarchy and accountability, things

1:00.6

such as luck versus skill, risk taking versus gambling, scaling up mistakes, fundraising investor

1:07.1

types and a whole range of other rate bits of info.

1:11.7

And we hope you enjoy this as much as we did making it.

1:14.5

And please reach out with any comments.

1:24.9

All right.

1:26.2

Voo, thank you for joining us today on the podcast.

1:29.4

Thank you very much for having me.

1:30.8

Oh, God, it's our pleasure.

1:33.5

So we tend to do this as a bit of a meandering conversation.

1:38.2

So for those listening at home, we haven't actually given Vue, any prepared questions at all.

1:44.4

We're just going to sort of have a conversation.

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