ScaleUp Sound Bytes
Episodes
EP21: Ben Chinwah "The $60 Billion Problem No-One Owns Until It's Too Late"
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Chinwah has spent over 20 years in the work health and safety space, and what started as a career pivot sparked by a conversation with a relative ...
EP20: Sam Carigliano - "The Sky's the Limit"
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 20 of ScaleUp Sound Bytes, Sam sits down with Sam Carigliano, Co-Founder and CEO of SkyCiv, to unpack how a simple beam calculator built at...
EP19: Nicole Gibson - "Disrupting how we interpret emotions through AI & Data"
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 19 of #ScaleUpSoundBytes, Sam sits down with Nicole Gibson, founder of InTruth, former Mental Health Commissioner, and a force of nature at...
EP18: Xharmagne Carandang - "The Path of a Founding Engineer"
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of ScaleUp Sound Bytes, Sam sits down with Xharmagne Carandang, founding engineer at Lorikeet, one of Australia's hottest startups, an...
EP17: Niklas Olsson - "The Canva for Numbers"
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Delivery Vans to Design Led SaaS: The Wild Ride of Niklas Olsson!In this episode of ScaleUp Sound Bytes, Sam sits down with serial founder and sp...
EP16: Yaniv Bernstein - "Startups, Principal Engineers, AI and the Future"
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam kicked off 2025 with a bang, sitting down with none other than Yaniv Bernstein. He's the co-host of The Startup Podcast, former VP of Engineering ...
EP15: Nicholas Clancy - "What it Takes to Succeed in a Start-Up"
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam sits down with Nicholas Clancy, CTO of EngineRoom. What’s special about Nic is that Piero actually placed Nic into his first role as a software ...
EP14: Ben Meneses-Sosa - "The Blueprint for Leading Technology Teams"
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Meneses-Sosa shares a blueprint for any aspiring leaders of tech teams to ensure smooth leadership and deliverables. Ben came into the ScaleUp Sou...
EP13: Dale Hurley - "The Startup Rollercoaster"
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dale Hurley, former CTO of CreditorWatch & COO/CDO of Avenue Bank, joined us at the ScaleUp SoundBytes studio for a chat about all things Start Up...
EP12: Raj Senanayake - "Stay Hungry"
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sam sits down with Raj Senanayake, Technology Delivery Director, at WTW (Willis Towers Watson). Follow his journey from a kid mucking...
EP11: Simran Ghumman - "Dissecting The Trifecta of Engineering Leadership"
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam and Simran discuss the typical traits of engineering leaders. Leaders will come from 1 of 3 backgrounds (tech, people, delivery), Engineering lead...
EP10: Monica Ly - "Data Driven"
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Start you own business? What the worst that could happen? - Monica Ly Co-Founder of EdgeRed EdgeRed stands at the forefront of empowering businesses ...
EP9: Roneel Muhammad - "Streamline Your Interview Process & ScaleUp Your Team"
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam recently had a blast chatting with Roneel Muhammad, Director of Engineering at OpenTable. Acquainted for just shy of 10 years now, he is by far on...
EP8: Selena Small - "Breaking Code, Stereotypes and Bones!"
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Selina Small - Engineering Manager at Fresho talks about switching careers into software development and growing into a leader. In this exciting epis...
EP7: Ken Kencevski - "Begin With The End In Mind"
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Kencevski, founder and owner of Devika, shares his story of creating a successful software consulting company, innovating new products and retaini...
EP6: Antoine Sabourin - "Disrupting A Multi Billion Dollar Industry From The Ground Up"
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome Antoine Sabourin, CTO and co-founder of Streem. Join us as we have an intimate discussion about the realistic life of what it was like to buil...
EP5: Micha Wotton "Identifying Leaders & Scaling High Performing Engineering Teams"
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Sam sits down with CTO Micha Wotton, over the past decade he's worked as an Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering and CTO for...
EP4: Rozario Chivers "How to Avoid Failure in Digital Transformations"
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rozario Chivers has worn many hats throughout his career, he's spent a lot of time within enterprise organisations in particular within the financ...
EP3: Paul Napier "The First Pancake is Always Lumpy"
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Russians have a saying “the first pancake is always lumpy” meaning things aren’t going to be perfect the first time so don’t expect it to ...
EP2: Dr Kaushik Ram "Hacking Flow State"
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on episode two of ScaleUp SoundBytes as we interview Dr Kaushik Ram, PhD, Neuroscientist and inventor of the Precognition Method. Kaushik has...
EP1: Dave Bolton "Stay Curious, Stay Humble"
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sam sits down with Dave Bolton, ex CTO of Domain, WooliesX and ING talking about how to navigate your career to become a CTO. Stay Curious Stay Humbl...