The Startup Retro with Will Richards & Gemma Clancy 
About Gav Parry
Gav Parry is founder and general manager of CAST, the Centre for Arts, Sports and Technology, which he launched in 2024. CAST describes itself as a research organisation that consults with the entertainment industry and builds products for it.
Parry spent more than a decade in music, touring Australia with acts including Rufus Du Sol and Ball Park Music and working on records streamed more than 100 million times. He co-founded Loose Change Publishing with Los Angeles company Vitalic Noise, and has worked as director of community at Innovation Bay, innovation and community manager at Entain's Ennovate, head of artist relations at SURREAL and a ventures manager at the University of Queensland's UQ Ventures.
On The Startup Retro with Will Richards and Gemma Clancy, he discussed CAST's launch and why startups and corporates struggle to work together.
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The Startup Retro with Will Richards & Gemma Clancy Go straight to the good bits.
Key moments from $66M fund, AustralianSuper's loss & CAST's debut.
In their own words.
“Startups don't know how to sell to corporates and corporates actually don't know how to engage with startups.”
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CAST, the Centre for Arts, Sports and Technology, is a Brisbane organisation that connects the entertainment industry with technology companies.
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