Fayl Tales
Episodes
Making Big Moves From Unexpected Places: Amy Fogarty
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From booking bands to backing founders in Tasmania. Amy Fogarty has lived multiple lives. And somehow they all make sense.In this episode, Amy shares ...
“The Hire That Nearly Broke Me” ~ Steve Grace on Bad Hires & Pivots Into Wild Ventures
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when your first hire steals from you, your business partner stops working, and your media company burns nearly half a million dollars?F...
Raising VC Too Early? Taryn Williams on Airtree, Singapore Expansion & Boardroom Pressure
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian founder Taryn Williams built Wink Models at 21, then launched marketplace startup theright.fit, raised venture capital from Airtree, expand...
Georgie Healy: The Startup That “Wasn’t VC-Backable” and the Pivot to AI
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you realise you’re building the wrong kind of success?In this episode of Fayl Tales, Georgie Healy ~ engineer, founder, ex-VC, AI ...
Quit Thheir 6-Figure Jobs With No Plan, And Now We’re Betting Everything on This Startup: Daniel Jo & Justin Yang
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when two consultants walk away from stable 6-figure careers… with no idea what they’ll build next?Meet Daniel Jo and Justin Jang, the...
Too Much Cash, Not Enough Clarity - Adam Murray on the Messy Middle
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Strategist Adam Murray on the real startup killers: resentment, complacency, and fuzzy reality. We dig into scale-up breaking points, the danger of to...
Desmond John on Finding Purpose After Failure
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before running startup pitch nights and ecosystem tours, Desmond John was showing backpackers around Melbourne’s bars and laneways. When COVID hit, ...
Dr Sam Donegan: From Saving Lives to Startups, Cofounder Breakups, Burnout, and Building Again
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Sam Donegan is a medical doctor turned AI founder and the creator of SupportSorted, one of Australia’s fastest-growing digital health startups.In...
Why Ego Kills Progress - Ray Yee with Lessons from Fintech
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Product dies where onboarding breaks. Fintech product adviser, founder and podcast host Ray Yee shares Buy Now Pay Later lessons, audits without the b...
Anton Roe: He Scaled a Team to 50 People… Then Lost Half of Them
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Roe thought he was doing everything right - growing fast, hitting targets, building teams. But somewhere along the way, things broke. People sta...
From Teen Game Developer to Thousands-a-Day: Michael Reitzenstein’s Flash-Era Rise & Reckoning
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 15, Michael Reitzenstein was already selling games. By 21, he’d helped build one of the first web-game businesses with in-game payments - pulling...
Dietmar Gombotz on when a breakthrough polymer meets market reality
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, entrepreneur and technologist Dietmar Gombotz shares the story of founding UGP Materials, a spin-out built around a novel high-perfor...
Building Before Validating: Katja Lisanskaya and the Rise & Fall of Everent
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Katja Lisanskaya, a talented software engineer and creative thinker, who shares the story behind Everent, her ambi...
Startups, Succession, and Scale: Dieter Rappold on Building What Others Overlook
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dieter Rappold has been at the forefront of the digital and startup scene for over two decades - as a serial entrepreneur, business angel, and founder...
Krisztina Szarvas: Unexpected CEO to Health Tech Pioneer
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Krisztina Szarvas always knew she wanted to build something of her own—but she didn’t expect to take over a family medical business while caring f...
Christian Schopper: The Startup That Could Have Beaten WhatsApp
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when two industry heavyweights—one from high finance, the other from cutting-edge tech—join forces to create a revolutionary startup?...
Too fast, too hedgey with Nasib Fathi
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this debut episode of Fayl Tales, I sit down with Nasib Fathi, co-founder of AristoQuant, a startup that aimed to disrupt the hedge fund industry...