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Wild Hearts is the podcast that reveals the real-time lessons from the founders and operators changing the world.
Unknown Host hosts Wild Hearts, a business show with 92 episodes published.
After 77 episodes and eight years at Blackbird, Mason Yates is signing off as host of Wild Hearts. This is his final episode - just eight minutes, no fanfare and true to how he hosted: generous with the floor, light on h
When Apple's iOS privacy changes hit, most people saw a headache. Rory Garton-Smith and Harry Dixon saw something else: millions of brands suddenly unable to reach customers, and no good solution in sight. So they built
Min-Kyu Jung was a corporate lawyer who taught himself to code because he saw a problem that needed solving. Three years later, Ivo is winning enterprise deals against vendors with much bigger names, with clients like Ub
How did two first time founders get so wise? Paying customers in four countries within weeks of launch. Firms signing pilot agreements before a product existed. Advisers calling Marloo life-changing. Not useful, not effi
This is the most technical episode we've ever done. Listen anyway. Yes, there are acronyms. Yes, you'll learn what a chiplet is. Worth it. But here's what you'll actually get: one of the best founder conversations we've
Most founders wait for perfect conditions. Not Adam Gilmour. He started Gilmour Space before Australia even had a space agency. On July 30, that bet paid off. Australia's first launch permit. Fourteen seconds of flight.
Most robotics companies die trying to build their first product. Alex Wyatt spent seven years building the platform so the second product took seven weeks. When August Robotics launched their exhibition robot in November
Nikki Brown is a Cambridge graduate who quit a dream job at Google after mere months. "I wasn't happy being a cog in a machine," she says. So she built her own. Today, Nikki is co-founder and CEO of Cartesian, an AI-nati
There’s a graveyard of robotics companies—billions torched on beautiful demos we’ve all seen before, but never felt. This episode explains why the economics, the software, and the demand curve have finally flipped—and ho
You don't have to be the founder to build the future. When Andrea Quinn made the leap from fashion merchandising to tech, she didn't start a company. She joined one. Today, she's VP of Go-To-Market Operations at Halter,
When storytelling meets startup energy, magic happens. In this week’s episode, Xavier Collins, co-founder of Wonder, joins Mason to explore how technology is tearing down the old gates of Hollywood, and what happens when
When Michelle Battersby launched Sunroom , she set out to change the game for women creators, building a platform where they could earn freely, safely, and on their own terms. Five years, three funding rounds and one pan
When Lucy Liu co-founded Airwallex in 2015, she was flying around the world opening bank accounts in person and carrying bags of security tokens. Global businesses are digital. But finance was stuck in the past. For thre
Procreate co-founder James Cuda has spent more than a decade obsessing over one thing: the brushstroke. From hacking the iPad 1 to run at 60fps, to turning a side project into the world’s leading creative app, James has
What if you could take the most mysterious force in physics—and make it useful? In our final episode of this season of Wild Hearts , we sit down with Pete Shadbolt, co-founder of PsiQuantum , a company racing to build th
What if planning dinner wasn’t a chore—but something you looked forward to? In this episode, Wild Hearts guest host, Silk Kadala - investor at Blackbird - chats with Anna Guerrero, founder of Clove , a beautifully design
What’s it like to be employee number one at two of the most iconic tech companies of the past two decades? In this episode of Wild Hearts, guest host and investor at Blackbird, Maddy Guest sits down with Kate Vale ; Goog
What happens when a side project becomes a platform used by over 75 million people—yet the founder feels like they’re losing control of it? In this special live episode of Wild Hearts , Linktree co-founder and CEO Alex Z
What makes a team thrive? According to Harry Flett , it's not just strategy or shipping speed; it’s how you make people feel. In the latest Operator episode of Wild Hearts, Harry, VP of Product, takes us behind the scene
The internet is drowning in ‘slop’- and George Howes has a fix. The former creative lead at Eucalyptus believes the solution to this ‘creative problem’ starts with a feedback loopand ends with a new kind of intelligence.
Michelle Battersby
former CMO and cofounder · Sunroom
1 appearance on this show
Lucy Liu
Emmy-nominated actor · The Lucy Liu Show
1 appearance on this show
Annabel Hay
Clutch Glue
1 appearance on this show
Craig Piggott
founder and CEO · Halter
3 appearances on this show
Tim Doyle
Co-Founder and CEO · Greyhound Rescue Wales
3 appearances on this show
Flavia Tata Nardini
CEO · Fleet Space Technologies
1 appearance on this show
Thomas Kelly
performer, writer, drag queen, comedian, singer, lyricist · International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
1 appearance on this show
Jesse Clark
co-founder & CTO · Boise Fire Department
1 appearance on this show
Laura Bell Main
Application Security Specialist and CEO · Safestack Academy
1 appearance on this show
Joe Harris
Chief Commercial Officer · Eucalyptus
1 appearance on this show
Peter Beck
Rocket Lab founder · Rocket Lab
1 appearance on this show
Mike Cannon-Brookes
CEO and co-founder · Atlassian
1 appearance on this show
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