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08/09/22 • 26 min

The Unicorn Launcher: A Business Growth Story

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 Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo

Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly

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.

Links:
The Great CEO within by Matt Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo

Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly

Previous Episode

In The Beginning and Meeting Matt

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 Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo

Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly

Next Episode

Hiring Friends and Firing Well

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?

Links:
The Great CEO within by Matt Mochary
Matt Mochary on YouTube
The Mochary Method
Vygo

Some of Matt's clients include leaders and founders at:
Brex
Robinhood
Coinbase
Reddit
Grammarly