Ep149 - Phil Morle (Partner - Main Sequence Ventures) on leaps, equity and the art of flearning by The Startup Playbook published on 2021-05-27T14:29:35Z My guest for Ep149 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Phil Morle, Partner of Main Sequence Ventures. Phil started his career as a Theatre Director, before taking those skills into tech initially as CTO of file-sharing company, Kazaa before going on to Co-found the first tech incubator in Asia-Pacific, Pollenizer. He is now a Partner at CSIRO’s venture capital fund, Main Sequence Ventures, which has $490M in funds under management to invest in emerging Australian deep-tech and science based startups to solve the world’s biggest problems. In this interview we discussed: - Why 50-50 equity splits between co-founders are a bad signal to investors - Taking leaps and having a high velocity of learning - The art of Flearning - The important balance between “soft skills” and Venture science & much more! Genre Business