Tom Brunskill

Thank you for having me here.

Super excited to be here and chatting to you and sharing what we're building at Forage.

For sure.

Well, I'll try to keep the description short and snappy.

I'm Tom Brunskill and I'm the CEO and co-founder of

forage.

I am Australian, as you can obviously tell, but I'm based here in San Francisco.

My co-founder, Pasha, who's our CTO, is based in Sydney, and we actually do have 20 to 25 staff in Australia.

And what we do...

at Forage is we host what we call virtual work experience programs.

So the best way to think about these programs that they're online training courses for university students to do, to experience what it's like to work at particular companies.

So for example, if you enrolled in our Citibank institutional banking program, you'd be learning how to

prepare like a discounted cash flow valuation.

You'd be learning how to navigate a fictional M&A transaction.

If you enrolled in our

our L'Oreal marketing program, for example, you would learn how to launch a marketing brief for a new product launch.

And the purpose of these courses isn't to replicate what you learn at university.

The purpose of the courses is to allow you to immerse yourself in what it's like to work at these different companies and build some tangible skills and some tangible career visibility around what it is that you might actually want to go off and do.

So

Yeah, we work with a bunch of large companies around the world, Goldman Sachs, BCG, Accenture, KPMG, those types of brands.