As a startup founder, one of the hardest things you have to learn to do is to relinquish control. Once you start hiring you have to work incredibly hard to resist the temptation to micromanage your team. I still remember the first...
Changing jobs can be hard, changing careers are harder, and changing from a corporate role to a start-up (or vice-versa) can be either the best or the worst decision you’ve ever made. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve...
After my previous post about why Macropod chose to stay in Australia, I received quite a few questions about raising money in Australia vs raising in the US and about our experience funding a startup generally. Whilst my post was quite...
Matt (my co-founder) and I started BugHerd more than four years ago. In startup terms, we’re not a successful company yet and we’re certainly no unicorn. But we’re still alive, and we still have a dream we want to deliver. It’s...
Thuy is one of the most important people to work at Macropod, since she is in charge of how stocked with milk and coca-cola the fridge is. Beverages notwithstanding, we couldn’t live without Thuy and her broad range of behind-the-scenes...
We’d like you to meet our fearless leader, co-founder and Macropod CEO Alan! He’s not the only Alan to work for Macropod, but since he was the first to, he gets dibs on all the usernames and handles. It could...
Tom is both an old and a new face at Macropod. He joined the ranks in the formative days of the company during an internship. This saw Tom deliver data which formed Bugherd’s original pricing models. He’s now back to...
Jesse is one of the vital linchpins to our fabulously talented Developer team. Self attested man of few words, when Jesse adds to a discussion he adds a depth of understanding that make others shut-up and pay attention. Quietly calm,...
Conrad joined the team at the same time we were picking up our office and shifting location from the east to the west. We’re lucky he decided to move his own home to the west, to be closer to the...
James is a frontend developer who started with us almost 2 years ago (that’s like 14 in dev years!). Since we’re all about equal opportunity, James managed to land the job despite a lack of beard. This is very strange and...
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