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About Charlie Gearside
Charlie Gearside co-founded Eucalyptus, the Australian telehealth company, in 2018 and stepped back from full-time work there in 2024. Since then he has published a YouTube channel and newsletter about Australian ambition and company building, and helped start Build Australia, a volunteer-run movement that argues for Australian industry, creativity and productivity.
He began as a web developer and designer, worked in advertising agencies as a creative, and spent time at mattress brand Koala before Eucalyptus, where his work spanned product, growth and creative.
He has appeared twice on Oversubscribed with Brendan Hill: on the show's first episode, about the decisions that keep startups alive, and on a panel about robotics and why Australia needs to make things again.
- Talks about
- Founder Journey, Deep Tech & Science, Leadership, Startup Lessons
- Website
- thegearside.com
In conversation.
2 episodes
Start hereInside the Minds Behind Australia’s Robotics RevolutionCovers both Eucalyptus and how Build Australia began, plus his case for Australian manufacturing.
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Go straight to the good bits.
Key moments from Inside the Minds Behind Australia’s Robotics Revolution.
- 2:00Breaker’s origin story: building robots that act on human intent
- 5:00From drones to defense: autonomy, privacy, and life on the edge
- 8:20The hardest problems left to solve (and why easy ones are gone)
- 12:00Alloy’s story: from Eucalyptus to building the data brain for robots
- 16:00Why Joe left a rocket ship to start from zero
- 19:30Building for the age of robotics: data, telemetry, and the next frontier
- 23:00Finding A-players: how ambitious missions attract ambitious people
- 25:00Culture, conviction, and what passion really looks like inside startups
- 27:00The defense dilemma: ethics, values, and the post-Ukraine mindset
- 30:00Going global: why Australia’s best founders build beyond its borders
The path so far.
- Now
Founder · Build Australia
- 2018–2024 · Scale-up
Co-founder · Eucalyptus
- Earlier · Scale-up
Developer, designer & illustrator · Koala
Sources: blackbird.vc
Build Australia on Day One
Build Australia is a non-partisan movement that aims to revive Australian industry and ambition, with a goal of 5% real GDP per capita growth by 2035.
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