Introducing The Unicorn Launcher

The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).In the final episode, Ben and Joel head to the US to put all Matt's teachings into practice and launch their journey to go from start-up to billion-dollar unicorn. This episode features Matt Mochary as well as entrepranuer, author and former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss.Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoChris VossSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).In this episode, Ben and Joel go through the pain of trying to raise enough money to finance their expansion into the US and rebuild of their product team. With time and options running out, Matt offers a radical rethink of the raising process - but is investor money all its cracked up to be?Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).In this episode, Ben has to quickly turn around a troubled pitch before the company runs out of investment opportunities, and Matt is quick to spot where the problem lies. Meanwhile Joel is facing a stark question: Is it better to build the product investors want, or the product we want?Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).In this episode, Ben and Joel take a closer look at how to stay sane and functional whilst running a business. Matt teaches six key behaviours in The Great CEO Within... but do they actually work, and can a book genuinely help you stay in control of a business? Can therapy make you a better CEO? Why on Earth would you have an ice bath?Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).In this episode, the new Chief of Staff, Ash, gets stuck in to transforming Vygo from a plucky but disorganised startup to a smoothly oiled machine with VR sets for all. But is it all getting too much, and can the company afford to keep growing?Meanwhile, co-founder Steven has found himself backed into a corner. He built Vygo, but is finding managing the Dev team a challenge he's not suited to, and it's causing a rift among the founders. Can Ben, Joel and Steven strike the right balance between business, pleasure, friendship and leadership?Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

In this episode, Ben agonises over whether to hire a close mate to a job which could make or break the business. Matt seems to think it's fine, but there are warnings from Joel and others in the business that he might be the wrong man to take the business forward - especially as it would leave the top of the company a pretty un-diverse place. Should Ben listen to his head and risk a friendship to do what's right for the business? Meanwhile, Joel's developer woes are deepening, but could following Matt's advice and taking a risk on upping the pay, hiring in from abroad and loosening the job requirements to bring in someone with better all-round skill pay off?The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

In this episode, Matt introduces the idea that there is no split between work and home life, and that an ongoing crisis within Joel's family is affecting the business and needs tough action.This episode contains frank and difficult discussions about mental health.The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Robinhood, Reddit, Brex and more).In this episode, we meet Vygo co-founders, Ben and Joel. We see the real daily struggles of running a tech startup, and how they not only discovered silicon valley supercoach Matt Mochary in an effort to help organise their lives, but managed to get him to coach them - despite his clientele exclusively being billion-dollar silicon valley firms and definitely NOT scrappy Australian entrepreneurs with dreams bigger than their bank balance.Featuring a cameo from Matt's coachee and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly

The Unicorn Launcher is a business podcast like no other. Follow the real, raw and unfiltered lives of two Australian tech founders pulling apart and rebuilding their small company under the guidance of Silicon Valley super-coach, Matt Mochary (Coinbase, Robinhood, Reddit and more).Links:The Great CEO within by Matt MocharyMatt Mochary on YouTubeThe Mochary MethodVygoSome of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:BrexRobinhoodCoinbaseRedditGrammarly