Ed Cowan
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535 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 25 Oct
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It shows it shows your lieutenants that you're in.
You're you're in for this, you believe in the values of the business and and you want to make it everything.
Absolutely.
And I've I've read that you personally interview at some point every single employee that comes into Rocked and and that I imagine is is part of that process to to make sure that values piece is is holding firm.
would you rank those?
As in I I'm of the belief that EQ probably should be one, but some founders don't necessarily believe that.
So look uh
Love the framework.
Uh and y you mentioned the importance of your engineers to be great problem solvers.
You've got a hundred engineers in Sydney.
It's a it's not a shallow pool of talent, it's a a growing pool of talent in Australia, but you're competing with Atlassian, you're competing with Canva, you're competing with Google has a big engineering team uh in Australia.
How do you think about recruiting that talent, incentivising that talent and is specifically in the engineering realm and and I guess aligning that talent as well?
Do you think Australia could be doing more to attract better engineering talent?
Best city in the world.
Yeah.
You sound a little homesick.
I think the next thread and and we touched on it i is around this idea of capital allocation and you know not in the traditional sense, but you guys are growing quickly.
Rock makes money, uh which is so rare in this day and age for fast-growing software businesses to be spitting out money.
And it was the same at Jet Star when you were running that business.
So as you touched on it, it it could be a great product market fit, but my gut feels
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