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Earlywork
Australia
- Sydney, New South Wales
- 11/11/2022
- Seed
- $2,300,000
Earlywork is the digital campus for tomorrow's tech talent.
Want to break into tech? Secure your fast-tracked ticket into a high-growth tech sales career with Earlywork Academy - our career accelerator with a job guarantee (https://www.earlywork.co/academy).
Grow your existing tech career with alongside 5k+ operators, founders and investors across APAC in the Earlywork Village (earlywork.co/community)
Get free access to 50+ top tech career resources (earlywork.co/content)
Stay up to date with major milestones in the Earlywork journey: (earlywork.substack.com)
Featured by the Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Startup Daily, Ausbiz, SmartCompany, UNSW Business School.
- Industry Internet Publishing
- Website https://www.earlywork.co/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/earlyworkcareers/
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Dan BrockwellCo Founder
Australia -
North Bondi, New South Wales
"Stop dreaming, start memeing."
馃憢 Hello humans! Dan here. Founder, community builder, writer, angel investor, and memer, in the pursuit of optimising good vibes for people and the planet.
馃憖 What I'm Working On Now 馃憖
馃尀 Building Earlywork (earlywork.co), a future-focused careers community for 4000+ young people interested in tech & startups.
馃挭 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
馃捈 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.
馃審 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)
馃弳 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
馃帹 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
馃 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.
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