Are you standing out from the crowd? (virtual work experience & learning in public)
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Hi, Tom. Thank you so much for joining me on the Australian Finance Podcast today.
Thank you for having me here. Super excited to be here and chatting to you and sharing what we're building at Forage.
Yeah, it's really exciting. And I wanted to get you on today because the world's just changing so rapidly at the moment. Teams are becoming distributed as we were listening to a podcast all about that the other week. The working from home model is changing and it's been a little bit overwhelming for people and we haven't really had the chance to step back and talk about things like this. It all just was trial by fire. And I think one of the most important things at the moment is getting that hands-on work experience, which was really challenging in the last year. So I'm really excited to get you on today to talk a little bit about what you've done at Forage and some really interesting skills and use of technology that people can focus on when they're building their career in this modern world.
So, Tom, I'm thrilled you took the time to join me today on the show. And before we get started, I'd love if you could talk a little bit about you, how you ended up where you are and what is Forage all about?
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
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