Dom Pym – The Little White Lie That Built a Bank for 1.4 Million Aussies

Two software guys walk into Bendigo Bank to ask for startup funding. They walk out having agreed to build the bank's entire online banking platform — something neither of them had ever done. That "little white lie" became Up, one of Australia's fastest-growing digital banks, now with around 1.4 million customers. In the very first episode of Life After Launch, Dom Pym takes Megan and Geo right back to the beginning: his mum's "golden purse", the envelope savings system she taught him, and the two mentors who wired him for abundance instead of scarcity. Then the Bendigo story in full — going up against IBM, SAP and Oracle and winning the tender with a live demo that moved the managing director's own money five ways in a browser — plus Up's "infinite activity feed", why Dom has deployed around $85M into Australian startups, and his pivot into policy. Dom Pym is the co-founder of Up and one of the most active angel investors in the Australian startup ecosystem.