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The most underrated way to activate your network as a founder is posting about what you're building. Michael Batko calls it "increasing the surface area for luck to strike." And the logic is simple: what's the worst that can happen if you post something that flops? The algorithm won't push it. Nobody sees it. But if it lands, the right people find you. The ones who care about exactly what you're building. As a founder, you want to be a magnet. For the right talent, the right customers, the right believers. You can't attract those people if you're invisible. Get out there. Post. See what happens.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ New review of Tim Noakesmith (Exec Coaches) “Deeply committed and firsthand understanding of the dynamics at play for founders.” - Verified Founder batko.ai/founder-os/sig…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ New review of @CharacterAU (Comms / PR) “The best I’ve ever worked with.” - Verified Founder batko.ai/founder-os/sig…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ New review of @ArchangelVC (VC) “Incredibly supportive and founder friendly.” - Verified Founder batko.ai/founder-os/sig…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ New review of @sprintlaw (Lawyer) “Sprintlaw have been great value for money and very responsive throughout the process of setting up our startup.” - Joel Van Veluwen, Hurdle batko.ai/founder-os/sig…

NEW EPISODE: Can This Startup End The $1 Trillion Plastic Industry? With Seaweed… Co-founder Dr. @julia_reisser spent years mapping the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with @TheOceanCleanup. Ultimately deciding that cleaning up plastic wasn’t enough - she needed to replace the material itself. Along the way, we explored their lab, watched seaweed get turned into biodegradable plastic in real time & asked the hard questions about whether this can actually compete on cost. Watch the full video to find out what the future of plastic could look like. (0:00) Introduction (1:25) What Led Dr Julia Reisser to Plastic Pollution? (2:31) Why Are We So Obsessed With Plastic? (3:35) Microplastics & Plastiglomerates (5:00) The Only Way To Truly Solve Plastic Pollution (6:12) Meeting Co-founder Michael Kingsbury & Starting Uluu (7:35) How To Turn Seaweed Into Plastic (6 Steps) (8:42) Exploring Uluu's Seaweed Products (11:05) Why Seaweed Over Mushrooms or Corn? (13:26) How Uluu Built Two Revenue Streams Using Seaweed (14:23) Is It Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel Plastic? (16:04) Where Do They Farm Seaweed? (17:23) Could Governments Help? (18:04) A World Without Harmful Plastic (21:26) Extras The best way to support is subscribing on YouTube! Thank you all! This episode is sponsored by @TrustVanta. They automate security compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) so ambitious startups can focus on building instead of drowning in audits. Vanta helps founders move faster - and helps us tell the stories of companies changing the world.

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Got Claude Code working for me now ironically, the longest task so far has not been website creation not been SEO optimisation not even been creating an entire app but research from Austrian/Polish gov websites how to get my son citizenships 🫠 4h and going 🙃

Way to start the year 🫶

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@batkomichael Founder things ….

What is happening?! I’m not even that funny on here

@nathanclark_ @jamestynan Ha samesies

@jamestynan Maybe some Aussie VC list is getting circulated. Just saw @batkomichael's tweet too

70 new followers in the last 24 hours for literally no reason. Is it the rise of the bots? Anyone else getting this?

same energy

.@startmate CEO Michael Batko has stepped as CEO after eight years of leading the startup accelerator and investor, effective immediately. startupdaily.net/topic/accelera…

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@JosephNWalker ❤️ thank you!! It’s been a wild ride

Wow, big news! I've always thought of @batkomichael as the best community builder in Australia. An incredible story too: a young Austrian guy moves to Sydney, gets an ops job at MadPaws, only a few years later is leading Startmate, takes it to new heights. It's become a cornerstone institution in the Aus startup ecosystem. Excited to see what you do next, Michael!

🚀 After 8 mighty years, Batko is stepping down as Startmate CEO. He has been the driving force behind so many incredible steps for ANZ startups and as he steps into his next chapter, we’re thrilled to announce that Phoebe Pincus will be stepping up as Startmate’s new CEO.

The influence a book has on you is always an interaction between the book itself and *your context at the time you read it*. There are books that have strongly influenced me because I found them at a certain point in my development, even if I now find them banal or incomplete.

We should care about our founders. We should care about the problems they are solving. Because they are going to drive our country forward.