Startup 360: The Valentine’s Day launch: workplace relationships, how to win when you fail, and why the standards you ignore are the standards you set

Welcome to the Startup 360 product launch! We hope you like our MVP with cohosts Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen. We want to have founder fun and find out what makes people tick - it’s not about GTM strategies and the next raise, it’s all about staying human. In our first show, Kayla and Simon talk about the extraordinary success of Harrison.ai, the medical diagnostics analysis platform that raised a $179 million series C. Kayla thinks they’ll be talked about alongside of wifi as a profound Australian tech development that goes global. It’s Valentine’s Day and there’s a bit of talk about office liaisons. Kayla, the show’s diversity hire, launches her new weekly advice section, Kayla’s Kareer Tip, delving into the tricky issue of workplace relationships, with the pending legal action at Dovetail between the CEO and an employee front of mind. Rampersand senior associate Abhishek Maran posted about Investment at First Sight on LinkedIn (Simon watched MAFS this week for the first time and can’t stop talking about it), and Kayla shares the worst pitch she had. Our guests this week are serial entrepreneur Steve Taitoko, talking about why he was happy when he lost his startup, losing sight of your values, how to get them back and the importance of family, while Vinisha Rathod MD of p3 Studio deals with 10x, our rapid-fire 10 questions, and shares her Spotify focus playlist of female Nordic and Celtic voices (with thanks to Ekaterina Shelehova). She also explains what happened - and went wrong when she impulsively booked flights to go see someone while drunk in a gay bar. Speaking of drinks, we launched with 6Ft6 prosecco ($20) from Victoria’s King Valley. We bought it for the label, which said “I’m kind of a big deal”. Startup 360 is supported by Vanta, helping startups unlock market opportunities through automated compliance.