Bill Kerr

Athyna

Was made CEO after ~1 year. Since then we've built a phenomenal team with engagement scores averages of 90%+. If you are looking for a great place to work come and join us!

Founder & CEO

Got everything started with my original Co-Founder Drew.

Founder & COO

Open Source CEO

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Founder

Startups

Seed. On a mission to unchain the world from their rent.

Investors: Blackbird, Sequoia, Guy Horrocks, Tim Doyle, Alex Fala, Craig Piggott and more.

Investor - Kiki

Series C1 (C extension). On a mission to deliver the next era of personal mobile computing.

Investors: Sam Altman, Salesforce, Top Tier Capital Partners, Point Break Capital Management, Republic Capital, Pegatron Corporation and more.

Investor - Humane

Series C. Mission driven, superannuation-focused, ethical investment business.

Investors: Adam Milgrom, Peter Gold, CVC Emerging Companies Fund and more.

Investor - Future Super

Pre-Seed, first money in. Empowering busy leaders with actionable insights.

Investors: Alumni Ventures, Mistral, James Beshara, Harry Uffindell, Rajen Ruparell, Andrew D'Souza, Michele Romanow and more.

Investor - Atomic8

Startmate

Startmate, is the epicentre for startup ambition across Australia and New Zealand 🚀.

We accelerate the most ambitious founders, operators and investors through our programs, propelled by a highly-trusted mentor-driven community, and backed by the best angels, venture funds and tech startups in the region.

Over the past decade we have invested in 170+ startups, with a collective portfolio value of $2 billion.

Invested into: S22, W22, S23, W23.
Mentored directly: Minke, One Small Step, Tutero, Dexta, Resonait, Defy-Hi Robotics.

Mentor & Investor

Apollo.io

Sales Advisory Board

Blackbird

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

Blackbird invested in some amazing companies like Canva, Safety Culture, Zoox and Culture Amp.

Invested into: 2022 Follow On Fund, 2022 Core Fund.

Limited Partner

Climate neutral teams.

Nul helps companies to effortlessly offset the personal footprint of each individual employee.

Nul was acquired by Athyna in December 2021.

Director

Advisor

The Bill Kerr

Through the podcast medium, we have managed to tell interesting and important stories since 2016. 

Interesting stories include...

- Wim Hof on Living Fully, Why Cold Is God & A New Route To Happiness
- Rob Whittaker on Fight Strategy, Training Methods & The UFC
- Dianne McGrath on The Mars One Mission, Space Travel & Living An Interplanetary Life
- Jade Hameister on Reaching The North Pole At 14 & The Polar Hat Trick
- Rusty Young on Living In A Bolivian Prison, Authoring Marching Powder & The Future
- Mike Dowd on The Narcotics Trade, 11 Years In Jail & Police Culture
- Seth Shostak on The SETI Institute, Extraterrestrial Life & The Hunt For ET
- Yasmin Scott on Starting Porn, Premarital Sex & The Porn Effect
- Steve Sammartino on Futurism, The Mobility Age & The World In 300 Years
- Dr James Martin on The Drug Market, The Dark Web & Working With Crime

Important stories include...

- Thomas King on Clean Meats, A Healthier World & The Future Of Food
- Kevin Briggs on Suicide Prevention, Handling Depression & How To Be Happier
- Deanna Blegg on World's Toughest Mudder, International Level Thriathlons & A Healthy HIV Life
- Michael Inglis on How Mindfulness Benefits Athletes, Mind-Body Connection & Winning Over Depression
- Fablice on Escaping Civil War, The Impact Of Education & Child Soldiers
- Tony Doherty on Building Doherty's Gym & The Secret To Success
- Manoj Dias on The Mindfulness Movement, Thought Watching & Making Sense Of Your Feelings

Podcast Host | Brolosophy

Podcast Host | AdventureFit Radio

AdventureFit Travel

AdventureFit's goal was to improve the world through travel, exercise, mindfulness and conversation. Through the course of its lifetime, it was a shining light in terms of bringing people together from all over the world for life-changing experiences. 

Ceased operations as I fell out of love with the process. It was sad. 💔

BRK Roofing Solutions

Providing metal roofing services for residential designer homes on the Mornington Peninsula and surrounds.

Was too young to be fired up about being a business owner so took off and backpacked for 3 years.

🌎 Helping companies hire global talent at Athyna 📚 25k founders, investor and leaders in tech read my newsletter Open Source CEO 🦄 Investor in interesting & important things

I’m founder and CEO at Athyna, a global talent platform helping to hire, manage & retain world-class global talent.

I am also a proud Mentor & Investor at Startmate, the epicentre for startup ambition across Australia and New Zealand and a Limited Partner at Blackbird VC. Also, active investor having invested into Humane, Future Super, Atomic8 and more.

One of my other passions is helping founders, investors and leaders outperform the competition at Open Source CEO through writing deep dives, interviews while sharing amazing tools & resources. I was also the host of a podcast that told interesting stories. Child soldiers, corrupt cops, porn stars, astrophysicists and more. 

Outside of work, I like training, hiking, surfing and reading. Also needing to walk the boss twice daily, my sausage dog, Ziggy. Through my 20's and early 30's I have also travelled to 50 odd countries around the world. If you like travel, growing your business or sausage dogs feel free to reach out and say hi.

Steve Jobs was insulted by an audience member in 1997. His response was all class. 

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A random number of perks attached to working from home. 
 
Traffic. 🙅🏻‍♂️ 
PJs all day. 🧸 
Music up loud. 🎸 
More special time. 👩🏽‍❤️‍👨🏼 
Pet powered meeting. 🐩 
Hit a mid day gym session. 💪 
Snooze as many times as needed. 🕰 
Fuel prices have become irrelevant. ⛽️ 
 
Remote work is awesome.

My favourite Australian startup—or maybe even my fave startup in the world—just did something incredible. 
 
Vow, creators of the Mammoth Meatball, just launched a new animal. 
 
Yep, you read that right. 
 
They launch Quailia, a new type of cultured meat. Now, before you get upset at the idea of launching an animal, just to eat it—relax. 
 
This cute little birdy does not actually exist. 
 
Only the meat for eating. No heart, no brain. Just the food. 
 
Cultured meat will be the greatest invention of the next century. 
 
No more animal cruelty. 
No more greenhouse gas emissions. 
No more wasted land only for agriculture. 
 
AI could change the world. Cultured meat will.

Left: battling to hire talent locally.  
 
Right: building a global team.  
 
Choose life.  
 
Choose Athyna.  
 
https://lnkd.in/eM7W_YjM

Over the next 24 hours I finishing my hardest piece to date. The story infamous WeWork co-founder, Adam Neumann.  
 
It's hard because he is so multifaceted.  
 
He may be the best brand builder of the last 100 years—and also the biggest bullshit artists in the same breath.  
 
*Every* founder should study the story of Adam because it highlights both exactly what you should do and precisely what you should not.  
 
My question to you is: what do you think of Adam Neumann? Legend? Phony? Fraud?

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Founders: If your potential lead investor walks in wearing these, sign the term sheet. 

OpenAI is shaking up how to do tech salaries. The average compensation for a Software Engineer - $900k! 🚀 
 
But there’s a twist: instead of traditional equity grants, they're betting on PPU’s. 
 
PPU stands for Profit Participation Units (PPUs). What are PPUs? Think of it as your ticket to a share of the company's profits, not ownership of the company itself. 
 
If you've got 1 PPU in a pool of 100, that's 1% of the profits coming your way. 💰 
 
And the best part is they have got your back with liquidity options for PPUs through tender offers after a 2-year lock-up period. 
 
Revolutionising AI, redefining employee compensation – that's OpenAI. 👾

It's been a very busy period at Athyna Check out the awesome talents we placed recently: 
 
Executive Assistant - 🇦🇷 $2,500 p/m 📝 
Software Engineer - 🇧🇷 $7,250 p/m 💻 
DevOps Engineer - 🇦🇷 $6,000 p/m 🛠️ 
BDR - 🇻🇪 $2,750 p/m  
Full-Stack Developer - 🇧🇷 $6,950 p/m 💻 
Graphic Designer - 🇧🇷 $3,250 p/m 
Help Desk Specialist - 🇦🇷 $3,300 p/m 🖥️ 
Account Executive - 🇨🇴 $2,750 p/m  
Software Engineer - 🇧🇷 $8,300 p/m 👨‍💻 
 
If you've got some hiring to do, shoot me a DM, or hit us up at the link below.  
 
https://lnkd.in/eU7jAKgU

Flash back to 1998. And a famous breakfast celebration at Burger King. 
 
Yep, that's Google's founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin after receiving their first $100,000 check. The celebrated with burgers. 
 
Matching shirts, matching hair.  
 
How incredibly wholesome.

Man it feels good to know you've got nothing but bangers coming down the pike. 

Behind every great CEO is a great Chief of Staff. The King's (or Queen's) Hand. But it was always a mysterious role—until now. 
 
Tomorrow at Open Source CEO we uncover the truth behind the Chief of Staff.  
 
We interviewed 10 CoS from Seed to IPO. 
 
And now we can spill the beans for all to see.  
 
If you are interested in getting it straight in your inbox sign up at the link below.  
 
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Ever wonder how big risks turn into bigger rewards?  
 
Dive into Sequoia's YouTube bet with me. 
 
In the treasure trove of Silicon Valley lore, some documents hold a special place. Sequoia Capital's investment memo on YouTube—from back in 2005—is one such gem. 
 
This memo provides a glimpse into how visionary venture capitalists assess potential investments. It's a chance to see YouTube, a soon-to-be giant, in its early stages. 
 
The document is a snapshot into Sequoia's thought process, the challenges they anticipated YouTube would face, and the reasons why they went all in. 
 
For tech history nerds this memo is a must-read. 
 
https://lnkd.in/euaSCm5B

If you are an early-stage founder who thinks product-market-fit is a urban myth Arc by Sequoia has a framework for you. 
 
They break it down intro three parts: 
 
1/ My hair is on fire (immediate need) 
2/ Hard fact (serving a real need) 
3/ Future vision (near science fiction) 
 
My hair is on fire: means I need the product now because, well, my hair is literally on fire.  
 
Hard fact: is when there is a need but you need to overcome a habit to win a buyer—gravity is your worst enemy here.  
 
Future vision: is simply when you are trying to turn science fiction into science fact, case in point, the Vision Pro.  
 
It's a great framework for understand what stage your product is at. Hair on fire with an eye on the future for me. 
 
If you want to see the whole piece check it here: https://lnkd.in/eCuGQnzV

Is it just me or did tech used to be creepily wholesome? Imagine Sam Altman doing a photoshoot like this today. 

🌎 Did you know Italy's Digital Nomad Visa is now available to remote workers everywhere?  
 
Non-EU remote workers are now welcome so long as you earn €28,000+ per year. 
 
It's a 12-months Visa and can be renewed!  
 
https://lnkd.in/eX8TAJUt

Writing my newsletter has had an added bonus I wasn't expecting. Nostalgia.  
 
Because I write building in public posts in my newsletter, I will often find myself looking back through the history of the company to find interesting tidbits.  
 
This screenshot is from *before* we even launched. Voting on the brand voice.  
 
We are only 5-years in but even that feels like a lifetime ago.  
 
Oh and if you are hiring and want to check Athyna out, head over here:  https://lnkd.in/eM7W_YjM

Athyna's engagement scores came in on average this quarter ... our average is 93/100. 

If you reserve taking your leadership lessons to only those people who actually exist in real life—you're missing out. 
 
Last we broke down the The Lasso Way.  
 
Leadership, Ted Lasso style.  
 
Ted's upbringing shaping his leadership. 
His real life coaching inspirations. 
The playbook of what makes Ted great.  
Favourite Ted-isms and much, much more. 
 
Heck, y'all are gonna love it (Ted Lasso voice).  
 
Check it here: https://lnkd.in/e3XY98MK

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