How do you know when it’s time to make your next big career move? With International Women’s Day around the corner, we are excited to feature Avni Patel Thompson, Founder and CEO of Milo. Avni is building technology that directly supports the often overlooked emotional and logistical labor that falls on parents—especially women. Milo is an AI assistant designed to help families manage that invisible load more efficiently. In this episode, Avni shares her journey from studying chemistry to holding leadership roles at global brands like Adidas and Starbucks, to launching her own ventures. She discusses how she approaches career transitions, the importance of unpleasant experiences, and why she’s focused on making everyday life easier for parents. [01:26] Avni's University Days and Early Career [04:36] Non-Linear Career Paths [05:16] Pursuing Steep Learning Curves [11:51] Entrepreneurship and Safety Nets [15:22] Lived Experiences and Milo [19:55] Avni’s In Her Ellement Moment [20:03] Reflections Links: Avni Patel Thompson on LinkedIn Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn Ipsos report on the future of parenting About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…
Welcome to The Path, a videocast and podcast series about how successful entrepreneurs navigate the world of venture capital to help them scale rapidly. Join us, as we welcome the founders of successful businesses to share their experiences and insights on what they’re going through, challenges faced, lessons learned and the changes they’re making moving forward.
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In this episode of The Path, Gup Ghuliani, Telstra Ventures' Operations Partner, and Andrew Butt, co-founder and CEO of Enable discuss the digitisation of the global supply chain, finding a lucrative gap in this market, successfully determining product fit and finding the right investors to build a truly global software company. Enable is a SaaS so…
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In this episode of The Path, Gup Ghuliani, Telstra Ventures' Operations Partner, and Thomas Brunskill, co-founder and CEO of Forage discuss equality of access to education and training, building a bridge between the world of learning and the world of work and how the recruitment landscape has changed dramatically. Forage is a virtual work experienc…
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Gup Ghuliani, Telstra Ventures' Operations Partner, and Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Upbound discuss the future of cloud innovation, attracting employees who share your vision and maintaining the original culture as the business grows. “It’s a very exciting space we’re in and a very opportune time to be in cloud computing,” enthuses Bassam.…
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In this episode of The Path, Yash Patel, General Partner at Telstra Ventures, and Hussein Fazal, co-founder and CEO of Snapcommerce, discuss personalized messaging and its role in changing the way people shop on their smartphones, the role of the celebrity investor (like Steph Curry), trusting your business partners and employee culture. Snapcommer…
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In this episode of The Path, Gup Ghuliani, Telstra Ventures' Operations Partner, and Asad Khan, co-founder, and CEO of LambdaTest, discuss the role of the CEO, the importance of stories, business culture and harnessing an insane vision. LambdaTest is a testing infrastructure company that allows users to run manual and automated tests on their websi…
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Subscribe to The Path in one Click: http://bit.ly/TelstraSub Reinventing insurance to change the world. In this episode of The Path, Gup Ghuliani, Telstra Ventures’ Operations Partner, and Phil Edmundson, founder, and CEO of Corvus, discuss Phil’s passion for making the world a safer place by helping organizations mitigate or eliminate negative imp…
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Visit us at http://www.telstraventures.com In this 1st (1 of 2) episode of The Path, Gup Ghuliani, Telstra Venture’s Operations Partner, speaks with Andrew McLeod, C3O and co-founder of Certn. Hear how Andrew built a massively successful human risk intelligence solutions business to accelerate the ‘global trust economy.’ Andrew believes that trust …
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Subscribe to The Path in one Click: http://bit.ly/TelstraSub This week, I’m excited to welcome Jing Wang, co-founder and CEO of FinTell Financial Services, a leading independent technology provider that’s helping financial institutions adapt to the digital economy with its big‒data risk management products and solutions. • Tell me about the company…
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Episode 2: Gautum Tambay of Springboard THE PATH: An Entrepreneur’s View on When and How to Raise Capital Welcome to The Path, hosted by Gup Ghuiliani, Operating Partner at Telstra Ventures. In this videocast and podcast series, we uncover how successful entrepreneurs navigate the world of venture capital to scale rapidly. For each episode, we invi…
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Welcome to the first episode of The Path, hosted by Gup Ghuiliani, Operating Partner at Telstra Ventures. In this videocast and podcast series, we uncover how successful entrepreneurs navigate the world of venture capital to scale rapidly. For each episode, we invite the founders of successful businesses to share their experiences and insights on w…
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