feistyWhat Feisty covers.
Feisty reports on the founders, CEOs, investors, and board members who run things. Four content types, one editorial line: who's in charge, how they got there, and what they're doing with it.
Who we're watching
Long-form pieces on individual leaders. Feisty profiles the founders, CEOs, investors, and board members who moved the room, with the detail the business press skips: how they built authority, what they changed, and what it cost them.
Co-founder and CEO, Canva
Co-founded Canva in 2013 and built it into the largest technology company to come out of Australia.
Founder, RedBalloon · host, Handpicked
Started RedBalloon from home in 2001, co-founded Big Red Group, and invested across four seasons of Shark Tank Australia.
CEO, ThoughtWare Australia
Founded Women in Technology in Queensland in 1997 and has spent nearly three decades building the pipeline behind it.
Co-founder, Andromeda Robotics
A mechatronic engineer who founded Andromeda in Melbourne in 2022 and builds Abi, a companion robot now working in aged care.
Podcasts
Feisty curates the shows worth your commute: conversations with founders, investors, and board members who say things they wouldn't say in a press release. Plus Feisty's own episodes.
Hosted by Victoria Devine
Personal finance, investing and money habits, built around a community of several hundred thousand listeners.
Hosted by Naomi Simson
The RedBalloon founder and Shark Tank investor interviews people who have actually built something.
Hosted by Rachel Perkins
Interviews with Australian female mentors, founders and executives about the practical mechanics of getting ahead.
Hosted by Emily Osmond
Marketing and business strategy for women running their own companies, running since 2019.