big bets and bad calls

We explore how big ideas become real businesses and what it really takes to build something new. We talk with founders, funders, and everyone in between who’s helping shape the next wave of innovation. Hosted by Clint McIntyre and Andrew Nash

big bets and bad calls is a business podcast hosted by Clint McIntyre and Andrew Nash, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Clint McIntyre and Andrew Nash hosts big bets and bad calls, a business show with 16 episodes published.

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  Episode #15

  big bets & bad calls with Flowing Bee

  Jul 16, 202655 minS1

  This week Clint and Andrew sit down with Sara Kurosani and Michael Sankey , co-founders of Flowing Bee — a Melbourne startup using AI to work out why your customers are choosing you (or quietly walking away). Sara's background is F1, not marketing — she spent years at Williams working on simulation tech before doing a PhD, including a stint commercialising crash-tech originally built for race cars into transport units for premature babies. Michael spent 15 years running commercial behavioural science for Fortune 500s out of New York, working from a studio apartment two metres from his bed before landing an office on Madison Avenue. Together they're compressing three-month, quarter-million-dollar behavioural research projects into a couple of weeks — using PhD-level behavioural science layered with AI, not just "ask ChatGPT to write an email." In this one: the sausage sizzle explanation of what Flowing Bee actually does, the classic dropped-shopping-cart myth in ecommerce analytics, how they raised a seed round without pitching every investor themselves, the bad call that cost them along the way.

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  Episode #14

  big bets & bad calls with Navi Medical Technologies

  Jun 18, 20261 hourS1

  An aerospace engineer walks into a NICU and doesn't leave the same person. On this episode of big bets & bad calls, Clint and Andrew sit down with Alex Newton, co-founder and CEO of Navi Medical Technologies, whose company has spent seven years building a device to solve a problem most people never knew existed: confirming catheter placement in critically ill newborns without repeat X-rays and dangerous delays. Alex brought the actual device into the studio. We talk about the bet of leaving a stable aerospace career for a pre-revenue medtech startup, what it takes to raise hardware funding in Australia, and how Navi landed an FDA Breakthrough Device designation along the way.

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  Episode #13

  big bets & bad calls with mixOmics Pro

  Jun 10, 20261h 5mS1

  50,000 researchers. 400,000 downloads. Used in COVID vaccine validation, Great Barrier Reef science, cancer treatment development, and CRISPR research. And it nearly collapsed because there was no money to maintain it. Mixomics co-founders Kim-Anh Lê Cao and Mike Rennie sit down with Clint and Andrew to talk about building a global scientific standard on no budget, the big bet of going from academic project to real company, and why their biggest bad call was letting other people's doubt become their own.

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  Episode #12

  big bets & bad calls with Brightspace

  May 27, 202646 minS1

  <p>Rob de Burgh Day has been an electrician, a talent agent, a venue owner, and the guy running a call centre out of Cambodia. So yeah — the Brightspace story didn't start in a boardroom.</p><p>In this episode, Rob walks us through a winding founder journey that pivoted hard when COVID wiped out a million dollars of equipment sitting in boxes. Out of that chaos came a genuinely interesting idea: a live digital twin for buildings — tracking people, air quality, temperature and energy use in real time, so that the whole place runs smarter.</p><p>Today Brightspace is i...

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  Episode #11

  big bets & bad calls with Trove

  May 19, 202659 minS1

  <p>Sheree Andersen didn't set out to be an entrepreneur. She grew up on a Tasmanian farm, spent two decades in corporate HR, and stumbled into startups when she fell in love with building something from nothing.</p><p>In this episode, Sheree — Co-Founder of Trove, the platform supercharging how brands manage corporate gifting at scale — walks us through the bets that defined her journey: leaving a working business behind to build something entirely new, sending co-founder Johnny to Singapore without a single local contact, and deliberately targeting Asia's gifting culture before anyone told them to.</p><p>She also gets...

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