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Paul Bassat transformed job seeking and venture capital in Australia
Manage episode 325208717 series 2944294
Seek and Square Peg Capital are just a few of the credits to Paul Bassat's name...and he's not done yet.
Paul was a lawyer before he made the first big pivot of his career: he took a bet that the internet would replace newspaper classifieds...and the bet paid off. Paul built Australia's largest job-seeking site, Seek, from a St Kilda office with his brother Andrew in the 1990s. When he was at the top of his game at Seek, he made his next big pivot and founded the venture capital firm Square Peg Capital.
In this episode, Paul speaks with host Adam Schwab about leaving a safe career in law to start his own business before start-ups were cool, learning James Packer wanted to invest in Seek and what drew him to invest in Canva and ROKT.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
38 episodes
Manage episode 325208717 series 2944294
Seek and Square Peg Capital are just a few of the credits to Paul Bassat's name...and he's not done yet.
Paul was a lawyer before he made the first big pivot of his career: he took a bet that the internet would replace newspaper classifieds...and the bet paid off. Paul built Australia's largest job-seeking site, Seek, from a St Kilda office with his brother Andrew in the 1990s. When he was at the top of his game at Seek, he made his next big pivot and founded the venture capital firm Square Peg Capital.
In this episode, Paul speaks with host Adam Schwab about leaving a safe career in law to start his own business before start-ups were cool, learning James Packer wanted to invest in Seek and what drew him to invest in Canva and ROKT.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
38 episodes
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