Another episode where we didn't get to everything on the show notes because it was just so much to talk about.

Yeah, but we kicked off talking about our new segment, which for a better, want for a better name, deep dive, deep dive face.

We touched on our first sort of content, which will be coming out around the go-to market strategy and sales funnel.

Yeah, we'd love any feedback from listeners for our high-level thoughts and any topics

you'd like us to discuss.

Yeah, and then we jumped into Tech Council of Australia, released a report at South

Start, and that goes into Australian tech roles, it goes into the regulatory system, and it looks

at talent. So we go deeper into that, and that flows into some other data just out of Carter

around the continued rise of startups that are shutting down.

And it's not just shutdowns. We also talked about valuation write downs after a couple of

articles, particularly talking about Blackbird writing down some of their portfolio while others

were written up in their value. And then we spoke about a LinkedIn article discussing our VC-backed companies just

underachievers. And we gave some thoughts around that. Yeah, not triggered much at all. And that

let us into Breakthrough Victoria, which is under a lot of pressure in the media. And we give our

thoughts as to whether Breakthrough Victoria should exist or not.

Which also led into a bit of a chat about main sequence and some commentary about whether

taxpayer funds should have already been returned and we touched on deep tech and the event horizon

for investments in that space.

We then touched on Square Peg, which discussed some of the fantastic returns. Crossing the billion dollars returned

to LPs, which is amazing. And we then discussed the companies are starting to buy other companies.

There's a whole lot of M&A occurring, including Culture Amp and Canva. And then the IPO of Reddit

and how this might be the start of some positive times in the IPO market.

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