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Ep175 – Ed Hooper (Co-founder & CEO – GXE) on frameworks, exits and investing
March 14, 2024
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My guest for Ep175 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Ed Hooper, the Co-founder & CEO of GXE.
Ed was previously the Co-founder & CEO of Omny Studio, which was an audio management platform used by media companies and podcasters to grow their audience, reduce production costs and monetize their platform. Omny was later acquired by Triton Digital.
Ed then went on to launch Cardinia Ventures, a Venture Capital fund that invests in hardware and software startups from pre-seed to Series A stage and counts companies such as Chornosphere, Edrolo and SpiceAi in its porfolio.
He is now the Co-founder & CEO of GXE, which is an all-in-one platform for Investment Funds, Family Offices and Syndicates.
It’s also the platform we use to manage my syndicate, Playbook Ventures.
In this episode, Ed shares the key lessons as an investor and founder including:
Building & selling Omny Studio (acquired by Triton Digital)
The frameworks Ed uses to make product feature decisions and assess trade offs
How Ed approaches building professional relationships
His approach to investing into startups
& much more!
Ps stick around till the end of the interview for an announcement!
Timestamps
4:08 – Ed’s background
5:16 – SOAK (Ed’s first company)
8:57 – Learnings from Silicon Valley, advice to early stage founders
12:22 – Time at ANZ, Rome2Rio, Groupon
15:06 – Omny Studio origin story
19:02 – Launching SoundGecko
21:54 – How to think about product feature trade offs
25:27 – Things to consider when raising using SAFE notes
29:47 – Frameworks for solving business problems
32:09 – Raising from corporate VCs
35:03 – Omny Studio acquisition
39:07 – Building relationships and networks
42:27 – Strategically building relationships with investors
46:17 – How Cardinia Ventures started and what they invest in
50:05 – How to structure a fundraising round
53:27 – GXE journey
58:37 – How to prioritise product feature requests
1:00:48 – Playbook Ventures rolling fund
Our partners
A big thank you to Andrew Armstrong for his help with research for this interview!
Also a big thank you to our partners for the show:
Scendar
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Links mentioned
Ed’s links
Ed’s LinkedIn
Playbook Ventures Rolling Fund
Website https://www.playbookventures.com.au/
Email: [email protected]
People mentioned
Dan Lewin
Bill Gates
Book: Steve Jobs – Walter Isaccson
Long Zheng
Bernhard Tschirren
Michael Cameron
Clive Dickens
Andrew Armstrong
Rory McNeice
Leigh Jasper
Rachael Neumann
James Harrisson
Hamish & Andy
Companies mentioned
GXE
Cardinia Ventures
Omny Studio
SOAK
Southern Cross Austereo (SCA)
Triton
Microsoft
York Butter Factory
StageLabel
Rome2Rio
Groupon
ANZ
TechCrunch
Slack
Flickr
Atlassian
Pandora
Shazam
Apple
Twitter/X
Spotify
Mamamia
iHeartMedia
Playbook Ventures
Scale Investors
Flying Fox Ventures
Feedback/connect/say hello:
[email protected]@RohitBhargava7 (Twitter)/rohbhargava (LinkedIn)@rohit_bhargava (Instagram)My Youtube Channel
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