Dan BrockwellCo Founder

Australia - North Bondi, New South Wales

"Stop dreaming, start memeing."

👋 Hello humans! Dan here. Founder, community builder, writer, angel investor, and memer, in the pursuit of optimising good vibes for people and the planet.

👀 What I'm Working On Now 👀

🌞 Building Earlywork (earlywork.co), a future-focused careers community for 4000+ young people interested in tech & startups.

💪 On the side:
- Explorer at AirTree Ventures, helping uncover the next generation of ANZ startups
- Advisor at NinetyEight, a cross-continent Gen Z marketing agency
- Angel investor at Ultraviolet Ventures, a syndicate of top ANZ founders, content creators & community builders

💼 Background: 5+ years' experience across product, community, operations, project management, sales, marketing, consulting and design in both startups and leading tech companies like Atlassian, Amazon, Uber, Deloitte Digital & IBM. Computer Science/Marketing graduate from UNSW.

🌏 Community Leadership:
- Founded UNSW's first acapella group (UNSW Vocallective)
- Founded r/ExplainMyDownvotes, a subreddit with 15K+ subscribers
- Served as President of UNSW's Social Soccer Society (doubling memberships)
- Was VP Operations of pro-bono student-led consultancy BusinessOne Consulting UNSW (led pivot to become the university's only startup consultancy and led our first interstate expansion at the University of Melbourne)

🏆 Recognition:
- Featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Smart Company, Startup Daily & Illawarra Mercury
- The Australian Top 100 Innovators 2022
- Australian Financial Review Top 100 Future Leader (Protiviti Business & Consulting Award Winner)
- 1st Place & Best Speaker, Chulalongkorn International Business Case Competition
- Stanford ASES Entrepreneurship Delegate and VC Pitch Runner-Up
- 1st Place, IBM Ignite Public Speaking Competition
- 1st Place, WPP AU/NZ Case Competition

🎨 Skills: Product Management | Marketing | Growth | Community | Content | Memes | Sales | Public Speaking | Career Coaching | Mentoring

...and in my spare time:
Singing, beatboxing, ukelele, running, bouldering, hiking, meditation, board games

🤔 Problem spaces that I'm excited by: ethical careers, business ethics, sustainability, mental health, education, renewable energy, nutrition, agriculture, localism, degrowth, healthtech.

Shoot me a connection request with a quick note on who you are, why you're reaching out, and what I can help with :)

Requests without a message will be rejected unless you're my long-lost cousin from Brazil.