
In 2001, after working as an architect for many years, Jonas co-founded his first company, O-pen, after inventing a novel optical touch screen technology. After receiving €6 million of investment, and bringing in an...


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Hosted by Sam Hodgson and Nikita Boldyrev · business · EN-AU
Australia has some underrated founders. Find their stories and insights here
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Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
30%
Guest openness
Accepting guests
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Signup to Generate a PitchAussie Founders is hosted by Sam Hodgson and Nikita Boldyrev. The show has published 6 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Forced Out & Bankrupt: A Founder's Story of Overcoming It All | Jonas Eliasson" (17 November 2025, 69 minutes), "He Built One of Australia’s Top Creative Agencies... Now He’s Going Bigger | Shooby Kandel" (28 October 2025, 58 minutes), and "“No Rational Person Would Set Out To Make a Billion Dollars” | Craig Benson" (10 July 2025, 58 minutes).
Aussie Founders publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 59 minutes across 6 episodes.
Booking probability for Aussie Founders is 30%, and the host is rated Open on guests. Aussie Founders requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Aussie Founders's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Aussie Founders are Business & Management Consulting and Holding Companies & Corporate HQs. Aussie Founders has a business audience.
Sam Hodgson and Nikita Boldyrev hosts Aussie Founders, a business podcast with 6 episodes published.
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In 2001, after working as an architect for many years, Jonas co-founded his first company, O-pen, after inventing a novel optical touch screen technology. After receiving €6 million of investment, and bringing in an...

Episode #5
Shooby launched his first creative agency, Mude , during his second year of university, working on major projects with clients like Amazon Music and the Australian Government . Now he’s at the helm of What Works Global...

At 24, Craig Benson led a squadron of aircraft and 100 personnel for the RAAF. Today, he’s co-founder of Skykraft — delivering the world’s first space-based VHF communication system for air traffic management...

On September 10, 2001, Dr Daniel Shaddock signed on with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, where he worked on LISA, the revolutionary space-based gravitational wave detector. Over a decade later, he co-founded Liquid...

After graduating from the Australian National University, Michelle (Chelle) got a job at a tech start-up and never looked back. In the early 2000s, she co-founded Intelledox, a software company which was acquired in...

Episode #1
After getting his PhD at Cambridge University, Craig worked in Defence before cofounding TakeABreak, an online holiday home rental company (similar to Airbnb), back in 2003. After selling the company into what...
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