Rohan Workman of Skalata — Backing overlooked founders as AI rewrites the thesis
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On paper, Uber and Airbnb are the worst ideas — and yet they turned out to be extraordinarily successful companies.
Skalata Ventures co-founder and CEO Rohan Workman joins host Kali Norman to unpack a thesis built on backing overlooked founders — capital-lean companies with a defensible edge, founders who can read a balance sheet and ship an MVP, and cheques up to A$500K at valuations to ~A$10M. Rohan explains why Skalata paused new investments to rebuild its frameworks for the AI era, and why — at pre-seed — you're really backing founders and a portfolio, not predicting winners.
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