Ep 3: BEST-SELF with Nick Crocker
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Nick Crocker is a Partner at Blackbird Ventures - he runs the Blackbird Melbourne office and sits on the boards of Culture Amp, nura, Applied, Eucalyptus, XY Sense & Startmate.
Along with launching Startmate in Melbourne, growing numerous startups and now with Blackbird, helping to supercharge Australian and New Zealand’s most ambitious technology company founders, Nick also produces an awesome curated weekly Substack newsletter ‘Branches’ which I highly recommend checking out!
Previously, Nick worked on Product Strategy & Operations at Under Armour Connected Fitness and was a Product Manager at MyFitnessPal, the world's most popular health and fitness application, acquired by Under Armour in 2015.
A few points in the chit-chat:
- The day to day at Blackbird and origins
- The evolution of mentorship
- Earning the good times in parenting
- Bringing your best to family and work
- Physically disconnecting from work
- A relationship with music
- Experimentation and creation of new products
- Bringing the future forward in the investment process
- Educational journey
- Permissionlessness of leaping into entrepreneurship
Notes and Links:
- Blackbird
- Blackbird Team
- Nick Crocker - Branches
- Nick Crocker - A24 article
- Applied
- Arcade Fire - Funeral
- Bellish
- Bluey
- Boxee
- Canva
- Cortical Labs
- Culture Amp
- Didier Elzinga
- Dovetail
- Eucalyptus
- Jerry Seinfeld & Howard Stern ‘Love is Endless. Will is finite.’
- LIFX
- MyFitnessPal
- Nura
- Rage
- Rasputin Records, San Francisco
- Redbubble
- Safety Culture
- Sessions
- Startmate
- UnderArmour
- We Are Hunted
- Zoox
Follow @nickcrocker on Twitter
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