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Hosted by Goanna Capital · business · EN · 21 episodes
Success doesn't start with a headline. It starts with a first win.Very First Win takes you inside the exact moment top founders, investors, and operators realized they could actually make it. Each episode unpacks the deal, decision, or breakthrough that changed everything, and what that moment taught them.Hosted by Rob Hilmer of Goanna Capital, with guests spanning founders, investors, and industry leaders shaping what comes next.New episodes weekly.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSuccess doesn't start with a headline. It starts with a first win. Very First Win takes you inside the exact moment top founders, investors, and operators realized they could actually make it. Each episode unpacks the deal, decision, or breakthrough that changed everything, and what that moment taught them.
Very First Win is hosted by Goanna Capital. The show has published 21 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Public Raised $220M With Almost No Revenue. Then Came the Reset | Leif Abraham" (17 September 2026, 15 minutes), "Karl Stefanovic on the First Break That Started 26 Years on TV" (30 July 2026, 10 minutes), and "He Counted Cards Until Casinos Banned Him. Then He Built SignalFire" (2 July 2026, 10 minutes).
Very First Win publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 14 minutes across 21 episodes.
Booking probability for Very First Win is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Very First Win requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Very First Win's contact route on record: public web form.
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Goanna Capital hosts Very First Win, a business show with 21 episodes published.
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Very First Win
Leif Abraham is the co-founder and co-CEO of Public, the investing platform he launched at the end of 2019. In this episode of Very First Win, Leif tells Robert Hilmer about the stretch from 2022 to 2024 that reshaped...
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Karl Stefanovic spent 26 years at Nine, 21 of them on free to air, and won a Gold Logie along the way. On this episode he sits down with Rob Hilmer to talk about the very first win that got him there. Robert Hilmer...
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Chris Farmer got banned from casinos for counting cards. That same obsession with statistics and risk turned into SignalFire, the data-driven venture firm he founded in 2013. In this episode of Very First Win, Chris...
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Chaz Englander has built and sold two companies before most people figure out what they want to do. First was Fat Llama, a peer-to-peer rental marketplace that got into YC and sold for $45M. Then a last mile grocery...
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Andrew Parker is the founder and CEO of Papa, the companion care platform pairing older adults with vetted "pals" who help with rides, tech, paperwork, and the thing nobody puts on a care plan: loneliness. In this...
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What happens when the internet's "Queen of Shitty Robots" decides she wants to build something that outlasts the joke? In this episode of Very First Win, Rob Hilmer sits down with inventor, YouTuber, and founder Simone...
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<p>Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron, joins Robert Hilmer on Very First Win to talk about building AI silicon for frontier inference workloads, coexisting with Nvidia, and the two challenges that define the chip game...
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<p>Jason Fried, founder of 37signals (Basecamp, HEY), joins Robert Hilmer on Very First Win.Jason has built one of the most well-known bootstrapped software companies of the last 25+ years. </p><p><br></p><p>27 years of...
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<p>In this episode of Very First Win, Robert Hilmer sits down with Samir Vasavada, founder of Vise AI and the youngest tech unicorn founder in history.</p><p><br></p><p>Samir started Vise at 15 years old in Cleveland...
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<p>Jonathan Bush is the co-founder of Athena Health and the co-founder and CEO of Zus Health, a national common patient record and medical record API. He ran Athena for 21 years before the company was taken private, and...
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<p>ElevenLabs is now an $11B company. Three years ago, a16z's Bryan Kim flew from San Francisco to London on 90 minutes notice to win the Series A. He packed in a minute, got his assistant to book the flight, landed...
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<p>In 2017, Andrew Antos founded Klarity AI, an artificial intelligence company built years before ChatGPT, before the AI boom, and before most people believed AI could actually work in production.</p><p>Then he...
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<p>Most entrepreneurs’ first wins are overlooked - but for Delian Asparouhov, it was a life-changing internship at Square that set his entire trajectory.</p><p>Imagine going from a rejection just minutes before — only...
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<p>Most social media icons will fade out—and often fade fast. But what if your biggest asset isn’t your followers, but your ability to build a real business?Nuseir Yassin, founder of NAS Company and NasDaily , reveals...
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<p>Most real estate stories end with a closing; @RyanSerhant's Very First Win begins with a prank call, a last-minute Paris trip, and a deal that seemed impossible - yet changed his entire career. His willingness to...
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<p>Join us as we dive into the pivotal first win of Gary Vaynerchuk's entrepreneurial journey. Discover how a simple baseball card trade at age 14 shaped his mindset towards unlimited potential and minimal downside...
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