Podcast appearances and mentions of luke anear

In this weeks episode:  AI gets rich.  Chegg: a cautionary tale the large AI companies eating the smaller ones. Employment Hero abruptly changed course on strategy. Just don't call it a pivot.  The tech industry must evolve beyond ‘problematic geniuses'.   Carta Data: 50% of employees depart within three years.  Luke Anear to step down as SafetyCulture CEO, transition to executive chair role. Canva poaches Zoom's chief financial officer.  Starting a company vs starting a fund. hello@tribeglobal.vc    

In our first episode, we're joined by Luke Anear, Founder and CEO of SafetyCulture, and Jessy Wu, Partner at AfterWork Ventures, to discuss the viability of VR dining experiences.

Gabriele Lasauskaite, Head of Growth & Community Programs at AWS, speaks with Luke Anear, CEO and Founder of SafetyCulture as he shares the story of SafetyCulture, becoming a critical app for businesses, supporting 75,000 customer globally and the plans for 100x growth in the coming years.Topics Include:How did SafetyCulture begin? What problem were you trying to solve?Who are the customers of SafetyCulture?Australian Open using SafetyCulture for their eventsAirlines relying on SafetyCultureThe role of technology on SafetyCultureThe importance of User ExperienceGrowing the SafetyCulture business 100x by 2032Interview wrap up

This episode is a deep dive on the challenges Qantas has been facing. While Qantas is unlike any company we invest in, we believe there are many lessons for our founders and investors to take away. In this episode we discuss:  The challenges all companies face in trying to balance the short term vs the long term, and some examples of this conflict to navigate.  How incentives drive behaviors, and some ideas for founders and investors in designing interlinked goals, KPI's and remuneration systems to ensure healthy outcomes over the long term. The reality that leadership changes often happening in a crisis, and how founders, executives and boards should think about setting the transition up.  A deep dive into an organisational lifecycle model, and compare CEO's and companies like Luke Anear of Safety Culture and Vanessa Hudson of Qantas in terms of the different realities their lifecycle locations will be creating for them.    Lastly, we discuss the challenges of having to navigate a company through a crisis, while also fielding a media firestorm which applies daily pressure on every word, behaviour and decision. We pose some strategies for how companies should operate in this unique situation. As always we'd love to hear from you, and we'd really appreciate if you could leave a quick rating on the podcast. hello@tribeglobal.vc 

Today's Founder Focus guest is Luke Anear of Safety Culture https://safetyculture.com/. You know you've built an outlier business when investors are constantly knocking on your door to invest, including an offer of $500 Million at a $5 Billion valuation. But you're probably also an outlier founder by knocking back that offer, and 99% of other offers too. This is very much a story behind the story type episode where Luke shares how he and his team managed to go from $0 to $1 Million revenue, then $1 Million to $100 Million in just a few short years, with sights now firmly set on $1 Billion and $10 Billion in revenue. A big ambition, but believable given the confidence he demonstrates and the foundations built to support that growth.   Luke shares how not only his role in Safety Culture has transitioned over time, but how he himself has grown, and shares experiences that helped cultivate humility, self-awareness and vulnerability. There are a number of prescriptive examples that founders can use within their teams to challenge people to achieve results they never thought were possible, and how to build resilience to deal with the inevitable times of up and down. We talk about the pros and cons of starting out in a regional area, and why their headquarters ultimately moved to Sydney. We also discuss journalism and the reporting of start-ups in general, along with ASIC's rules around the reporting of private company information and the effect that can have on an ecosystem. Now there's a bonus bit included at the end that came out of the usual post podcast discussion thanking our guests for their time. We've included this as it's an important message to remind founders they aren't alone in a range of mental health experiences that can be par for the course in this chosen endeavour.   We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed creating it, and as always we'd love to hear any thoughts and comments.  Go to www.tribeglobal.vc

Welcome to Tribe Talkin' Episode 3.  This week we talk about Safety Culture raising $34 Million at a $2.7 Billion valuation, $600 Million higher than their last raise. This bucks the trend we've seen in valuations and we discuss some interesting aspects of the Safety Culture story. And spoiler alert! We have the Founder, Luke Anear on next week's Founder Focus episode and we're looking forward to a deep dive. We see Safety Culture's raise as a signal that the markets are in a good place We also talk about Rokt moving towards its IPO. Their "party" culture is also under the microscope at the moment, and we talk about how such cultures are being currently viewed. We discuss episode 2 of the series “The Founder”, featuring Canva and its founders Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrect and Cameron Adams. We unpack the parts of the story we found most interesting, and try and distil lessons for entrepreneurs to consider in their own journey. Other news includes Airtree warning there will be more failures, and why we think it's interesting they felt compelled to even do that, given the business we are all in. We talk about the Openview Partners report into VC valuations, which provides some really interesting insights into the current valuation trajectory, as well as visually demonstrating which companies get the highest valuations and why. https://openviewpartners.com/2022-saas-benchmarks-report/ This report provides an excellent dataset on the growth rates achieved with companies that have diversity in their management team.  This is an excellent segue way into our deep dive subject which is diversity in STEM, and the recent draft recommendations from the Diversity in STEM review which was published this week. https://www.industry.gov.au/science-technology-and-innovation/diversity-stem-review Whilst diversity and equality is a core value of Tribe, STEM industries are the lifeblood of the companies we invest in. As such, this is an extremely important topic for VC investors, and the founders we invest in. As always we appreciate feedback, and don't forget to leave a rating whilst you're here. www.tribeglobal.vc  hello@tribeglobal.vc     

Welcome to episode one of Tribe Talkin', a format where the Tribe team discusses issues hitting news rooms, as well as sharing a core concept relevant to venture capital and high growth businesses.  In this episode we discuss "The Founder", a documentary brought to life by Luke Anear from SafetyCulture, documenting Luke's behind the scene journey alongside other founders like Canva's Melanie Perkins,  Brighte's Katherine McConnell and Finder's Fred Schebesta https://if.com.au/founder-trailer/  The series aims to capture the deep uncertainty, doubt, and struggle founders face in trying to create something from nothing. One journo describes it as one big circle jerk! Hhmm. It's not every day we get to reference a circle jerk in a podcast, but here we are. We talk about local VC news- that 9 VC funds are reported to be currently raising captive funds and what we think that means for the Australian VC industry.  We look at the Blackbird manifesto focused on start-ups coming out of research institutions. It describes some structural barriers stopping effective knowledge transfer flowing out of universities.  https://www.blackbird.vc/foundry  For our concept deep dive, we look at sole Founder's vs Co-Founder teams, and the reason we prefer multi-founders from a personal and investment perspective. Whilst we talk about the reasons we prefer these Co-Founding teams, we also discuss the big issue that sometimes plagues them: conflict. Yet whilst conflict is inevitable, it is desirable in the right conditions, and we give a few simple ideas on how to manage it. The full blog article on the topic can be found here: https://tribeglobal.vc/why-co-founders-teams/    As with all our content, we've love to hear from you, especially if you have a different view. If you like what you hear, we'd really appreciate if you can rate the podcast and any comments are always welcome.   https://tribeglobal.vc/   hello@tribeglobal.vc  

In this week's episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have Luke Anear, CEO of SafetyCulture, a company that stems from his passion and lifelong dedication to solving critical problems in safety and quality across the industry. Luke and Ryan talk about the relaxation in the approach to workplace and occupational safety, and how this poses a danger to industrial workers. They also discuss how OSHA should modernize to ensure all workers are able to do their jobs, and at the end of their shift, go home safe and healthy. Listen today! Visit us on the web at http://www.upkeep.com/ Join our Maintenance Community Slack Group: http://www.upkeep.org/ Download UpKeep from the App Store and Google Play for free today! → App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/upkee... → Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... Check us out on socials! → LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/on-u... → Twitter: https://twitter.com/OnUpKeep → Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onupkeep/ → Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upkeepcmms/ Music from https://filmmusic.io "Too Cool" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

High school dropout Luke Anear didn't set out to build a global technology company that was recently valued at over $2billion, but that's exactly what happened when he saw a problem in the workplace – namely accidents that didn't have to happen – and started to help solve it. Luke created his mobile safety and quality checklist app that became SafetyCulture. Now, Luke's vision is expanding, with grand designs to build a global e-marketplace for any consumables used in a workplace, from work boots to chefs' aprons, a kind of Amazon for the workplace, as he describes it. And ever wondered why those big global tech stocks have staggeringly high valuations? Well, Luke gives a feisty explanation of why they're not ridiculous! Plus, he shares some heart-felt thoughts on sudden wealth and what to do with it. Enjoy Part 2 of my chat with Luke Anear. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Luke Anear worked as a private investigator  investigating workplace mishaps and chasing workers' compo cheats, he realised he wanted to turn that negative into a positive. So he set about helping companies vastly improve their safety procedures in the workplace, to try and prevent workers having accidents in the first place. His little startup took shape in the proverbial garage of his suburban Townsville home, and he began slowly, selling safety checklists delivered on Word documents. But then Luke Anear transformed his little business baby into a multi-million dollar global technology empire, when he and a uni dropout mate created an app, called iAuditor -- essentially a mobile safety checklist app to suit each individual workplace. That completely changed Luke Anear's life, and set SafetyCulture on course to become a $2 billion Aussie success story.How that has mushroomed to now service almost 28,000 customers around the world, and what Luke Anear has learned along the way from the smartest venture capital investors in the room, including mentors and supporters like Atlassian's Scott Farquhar is a story and a half. Plus what Luke learned and how he navigated the panic-struck arrival of the COVID pandemic offers lessons for most entrepreneurs. Hope you enjoy Luke Anear! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Dunne is one of Australia’s leading venture capital and private equity lawyers, specialising in private capital raisings and M&A. Peter has advised on multibillion-dollar transactions, including acquisitions, buy-outs, disposals, joint ventures and recapitalisations, involving some of Australia’s largest public and private organisations; his clients include Atlassian, Canva, Deputy, Culture Amp, Linktree, BigCommerce, Campaign Monitor, Expert 360, SafteyCulture, Tyro, Zoox...the list goes on.In this conversation with Ian, Peter talks about...Why he became a lawyer and how early experiences shaped his careerWhy he's more interested in people than the size of dealsKey differences between private equity and venture capitalHow he got involved in Atlassian's first capital raiseHis approach to building a tech practice and choosing clientsHis advice for startup founders who are fundraisingWhat "legal debt" is and how to avoid itQuickfire recommendationsBooks: 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez & To the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfPodcast: This American LifeNews source: The Economist or The GuardianTech founder: Luke Anear of SafetyCultureProductivity tool: Atomic HabitsTV show: Dr. WhoTed Talk topic: How we can inspire and help eachother____________________If you are a prospective angel investor based in Adelaide interested in joining Horizon Six Degrees, Innovation Bay's new community for angels, email membership@innovationbay.com to discuss your potential candidacy as a founding member. More info here.

The iAuditor app was created by CEO Luke Anear and his team to help with job site inspection. This revolutionized how job audits are performed today. I speak on Safe Culture and how the iAuditor app is worth downloading for work inspections. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anthony-jr8/support

Luke Anear, CEO and Founder of SafetyCulture, is undoubtedly one of Australia's finest modern entrepreneurs. A boy from Townsville in Northern Queensland starts a software company from his garage with no technical expertise. SafetyCulture is now a pin up of the Australian technology scene – a billion dollar valuation, revenue growth at break neck speed, tens of thousands of customers across 85 countries, and some of the world's largest companies relying on SafetyCulture software to provide their safety and inspection. It is a story that is boundless in Luke’s ambition and desire to do something significant. It is a story engrained in a mission to build an enduring company that shapes the world. The lessons Luke has gained from this journey is both inspiring but also deeply important for any entrepreneur to hear first hand. Luke has a wonderful disposition, a knock about fella, who is just warming up when it comes to fulfilling what he set out to do. Brief show notes/ links mentioned in the episode The New Hustle - an anthem to entrepreneurship - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN0NlchcUS8 Steve Jobs story of the 'rock tumbler' as a metaphor for great teams https://vimeo.com/195796089 SafetyCulture customer conference -https://safetyculture.com/summit-2020/ "From thriving to surviving" --- For those interested in further insights and commentary, TDM Growth Partners has been posting to their new medium publication – TDM Tidbits – including a written series on what frameworks we use to assess great CEOs, CFO and non executive directors. Easiest to it follow @tdm_growth on Twitter and get all the news and views there. You can always find me on Twitter @eddiecowan. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tdm-growth-partners/message

In this episode, Phaedon chats with Luke Anear, founder and CEO of SafetyCulture. Luke founded SafetyCulture in his garage in Townsville back in 2004 and has gone on to scale the company globally, attract thousands of customers from a wide range of industries and complete millions of inspections with SafetyCulture's iAuditor app. The last time we interviewed Luke was October 2017. Since the last time we spoke:Luke has grown the team from around 140 people to just over 360.The customer base grew from 11,500 to 27,000 customersSafety Culture's market valuation has grown to $1BIn this conversation, we dive into many different aspects of scaling up a business including Luke's shifting responsibilities as CEO, maintaining culture throughout growth, building a board, establishing a recruitment function, the importance of having a coach, and making customer engagement a central focus. We know you'll enjoy hearing about this dynamic founder's journey.

When the world flipped from desktop to mobile, high-velocity B2B software companies faced a question: Could they join B2C companies in making that challenging pivot? Many tried, but few have succeeded. SafetyCulture is one of the winners. David Yuan, General Partner at TCV, caught up with Luke Anear, CEO and founder of SafetyCulture, to talk through his growth journey in building a disruptive mobile-SaaS company. Luke’s a former private investigator, nearly lost his shirt as a boxing promoter, and worked as a videographer for Tony Robbins. For an inside story on how SafetyCulture scaled to a compelling market position with a mobile-first B2B product, settle back and click play.

No matter what kind of business you run sooner or later you’ll find yourself having one of those seemingly boring conversations around safety. It may seem boring but having processes around safety is vital for the health and wellbeing of staff, and getting those processes wrong can be costly. Luke Anear is the founder and CEO of SafetyCulture, a company which is helping businesses manage their safety and compliance. In this episode Luke shares the story of how he went from private investigator, to the CEO of a global company valued at more than $440 million.

Luke Anear used to work as a private investigator in the workplace compensation industry, and his experiences inspired him to start SafetyCulture, one of the fastest growing tech companies in Australia which is best known for its workplace, health and safety apps: iAuditor and Spotlight. Like a lot of entrepreneurs, Luke started his company in his garage and was based in Townsville. SafetyCulture is now one of the fastest growing companies in Australia, and has been tapped on the shoulders to be the 'next Atlassian' or great Australian success story in the startup world. In 2018, Luke raised the largest amount of capital for a startup or tech company in Australia - in just 90 minutes. Now, SafetyCulture is worth $440 million and employs over 200 people in 4 countries. Luke offers some fantastic words of wisdom in this interview for any business owner out there looking to scale their business. We're sure you'll love this episode of The Make It Happen Show as much as we do.

In just a couple of weeks, on December 6th, we will be bringing the SaaStock experience all the way to SaaStock Oceania in Sydney. On this week's episode, we bring you another great speaker we will host there - Ashik Ahmed, CEO and CTO of Deputy.  Ashik will talk about the shit he wishes he knew as he was growing the company. One of the central themes in that is the learning curve in making better decisions, which is the subject of this week's podcast.    Ashik and his co-founder Steve Shelley founded Deputy ten years ago after grappling with scaling issues at Steve's previous company where Ashik worked. As they fixed a lot of the problems, many people in Ashik's network would enquire how it had happened. The problem of managing work and workers was huge so they decided to fix it.  Bootstrapped for 8 years they relied on whatever they were earning in MRR to grow the company, which called for a specific kind of decisions making - never too long term but always fast-paced. Two years ago, they signed a term sheet with OpenView and have been doubling in size each year since.   Listen on to learn: The most impactful advice Ashik ever got about making decisions What aside from applying that framework is essential for making good decisions in a fast-growing SaaS company An example of how Ashik made the decision to go with Openview after pitching to 27 other VC companies On December 6th in Sydney, Ashik will be joined by other exciting speakers such as Alex Fala, CEO, VendHQ, Luke Anear, CEO, Safety Culture and Kirsti Grant, CEO Populate and HOP Ventures. You can use discount code ALEXT30 for 30% off tickets. Get one now.

The fifty US states have vast differences in culture, cost, talent and time zones and can make it difficult to decide where to set up shop. This episode is your audio tour of top US locales for business and covers essentials like tax incentives, labour markets, and industry capabilities.Podcast host Carl Hartmann, founder of Temando and now AFN Director and Co-Founder of Shortlyster, chats with Luke Anear, Co-Founder of SafetyCulture, a software for mobile workplace safety and quality management. Luke shares how a first customer led their team to Kansas City and how they worked with the city and state to negotiate major tax incentives.

I know you shouldn't have favourite children, or, I suppose, favourite startup CEOs. But Luke is definitely one of my favourite CEOs. Luke's story, and by extension the story of SafetyCulture is fascinating - the epitome of startup hustle. It was so inspiring that Luke produced and paid for a movie about it (along with his buddies from Canva and Vinomofo). It's appropriately called "The New Hustle" - if you haven't seen it check it out - you'll find it on YouTube.

I'm pretty excited at the moment.  I'm happy to announce that the newest member of our family has arrived, his name is Jude Thomas, and despite the fact that he has shown his stubbornness in both labour and afterwards, my wife and I, and his 5 siblings, are glad to have him in our lives. I'm also excited about another new beginning, something of a birth I suppose as well.  Safety on Tap Connected, the worlds first growth accelerator designed for health and safety professionals, launched on the 29th of May 2017.  I can't tell you how pumped I am to have our founding member group starting to accelerate their growth. I've had plenty of enquiries about membership after the deadline though, since we were only open for one week.  As our founders group settles down into the rhythm of ongoing growth and development through our coaching, community, content and contemplation, we may open up again for more new members in the future.  So if you think Safety on Tap Connected is right to help you grow, you need to be on the waiting list at safetyontap.com, and I'll let you know when we open the doors again. If you aren't sure what this is all about still, I have something else for you.  Since we are doing something quite different from conventional professional development, it's understandable that you might not be sure what you are actually going to get.  One of the more common bits of feedback I got was about coaching - so many health and safety people haven't had much if any exposure to what coaching is, which arguably is the best value part of the membership.  So if you are in the not sure camp, I have something special for you.  So you can get totally informed, I'll let you have a sneak peek at our member onboarding videos, which explains everything in detail.  If you want to check those out, send me an email andrew@safetyontap.com My guest today is Luke Anear, founder of Safety Culture, the creators of the iAuditor app, the most used audit and inspection app in the world.  Luke has a great product and leads one of the fastest growing tech companies in Australia to make his mission happen - to improve health and safety by helping frontline workers.  He has some great insights about user-centred design, staying true to your mission, and what the future looks like to him.  Here's Luke:     I mentioned a few links I'd share from that discussion with Luke: Health Monitor by Atlassian (for tracking all sorts of projects and team work) Spotlight Incident Reporting and Investigation app (for iOS) User Experience Design Cheat Sheet the Safety Culture way [activecampaign form=5]

Any startup journey or dream career begins with a fascinating story of motivation before any business or lifestyle success is achieved. Rather than chasing money and freedom, most Entrepreneur's just want to make a difference.Over 17 years’ of experience in worker’s compensation, safety, and compliance, and Luke Anear was armed with over 17 years’ of experience in worker’s compensation, safety and compliance, and entrepreneurism. After managing more than 2,500 workplace injury investigations, Luke had a desire to develop a solution for critical problems in safety and compliance across many industries. Luke's plan revolutionize safety management resulted in creating SafetyCulture, a cloud-based company dedicated to offering innovative, low-cost, mobile-first products that empower users to have a safe and efficient workplace. SafetyCulture’s mobile application, iAuditor, is the most widely used auditing app in the world. iAuditor mobilizes all workers—from the front lines to the corner office—to participate in real-time data collection and reporting to quickly recognize and improve workplace safety. I invited Luke Anear, the Founder and CEO of SafetyCulture to learn more about how technology is transforming the industry while also making Health and Safety exciting.   Guest Info www.safetyculture.com

Segment 1: William C. Taylor is cofounder of Fast Company, author of Practically Radical, and coauthor of Mavericks at Work. He has published essays and CEO interviews in the Harvard Business Review, and blogs regularly for HBR. He is the author of the new book, “SIMPLY BRILLIANT: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways”.Segment 2: Doug Kisgen is a serial entrepreneur, organizational consultant, and the published author of a book called “Rethink Happy”. His former company, Home Instead Senior Care, was a two-time Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company when he sold it.  Doug formed his first corporation right out of college in 1991.  Segment 3: Luke Anear is CEO and founder of SafetyCulture. He founded the company in 2004 after spending seven years in the workers' compensation industry, where he realized how broken the system is.Segment 4: Mercedes De Luca is the chief operating officer at Basecamp, maker of software tools that help teams collaborate and communicate. Mercedes served as CEO at MyShape, vice president of global information technology at Yahoo!, and vice president and general manager of internet commerce for Sears.Segment 5: Robert Rice started 18 months ago with a desire to give people a choice of what they actually want inside of their mystery box subscription, instead of having to settle for what they get.Sponsored by Nextiva and Microsoft.