Charlie Gearside
Founder at Build Australia · Co-founder at Eucalyptus
See my work + read my thoughts @ https://gearsi.de.
I come up with ideas, then use design, copy and code to execute.
Starting out as a web developer / designer, I became an advertising creative ad agencies, and now I'm applying my skillset to product, growth and creative in technology startups including Eucalyptus, a company I co-founded in 2019.
Career
- Now Founder · Build Australia
- 2018–2024 · Scale-up Co-founder · Eucalyptus
- Earlier · Scale-up Developer, designer & illustrator · Koala
Sources: blackbird.vc
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of Inside the Minds Behind Australia’s Robotics Revolution you want.
- 2:00 Breaker’s origin story: building robots that act on human intent
- 5:00 From drones to defense: autonomy, privacy, and life on the edge
- 8:20 The hardest problems left to solve (and why easy ones are gone)
- 12:00 Alloy’s story: from Eucalyptus to building the data brain for robots
- 16:00 Why Joe left a rocket ship to start from zero
- 19:30 Building for the age of robotics: data, telemetry, and the next frontier
- 23:00 Finding A-players: how ambitious missions attract ambitious people
- 25:00 Culture, conviction, and what passion really looks like inside startups
- 27:00 The defense dilemma: ethics, values, and the post-Ukraine mindset
- 30:00 Going global: why Australia’s best founders build beyond its borders
Connections
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