Founder Focus Ep 1: Vu Tran of Go1

For our very first podcast, we are genuinely humbled to have been joined by Vu Tran, one of the co-founders of Australian unicorn Go1. For those who don’t know the Go1 story – Go1 is ‘the Spotify for learning content creators’. Started in (and still headquartered in) suburban Brisbane, Go1 now has a global presence, and still helmed by four friends who as a co-founding team have been together for over 16 years – quite a rarity in the world of start-ups.  And a fun fact, when he is not growing one of Australia’s most successful start-ups, Vu also has time to work as a GP one day a week in his local community. Impressive.

One of Tribe’s cofounders Elaine Stead invested in Go1 very early in their journey, and this podcast covers that period and much more including:

• Founder origin story
• The importance of knowing your level, and aiming higher
• Co-foundership
• Navigating interpersonal conflict and ego
• The benefit of hierarchy and explicit co-founder roles and accountability
• Luck vs skill
• Difficult and unpopular decisions
• Risk taking vs gambling
• Learning from mistakes as the real success coefficient
• Scaling up mistakes
• Fundraising and investor types
• Elaine's rationale for investing early into Go1 around the time they were pivoting from a LMS to a market place
• The importance of significant others
• Conviction

We hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed making it and please drop any comments below.