#260 Maxine Minter: Japanese Before English, Unpacking Generative Ambition and Building a VC Fund Nobody Expected

Podcast: The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal · Vidit Agarwal

Opublikowano: 2026-06-09

Episode #260 features Maxine Minter — Founder and General Partner of the Pre-Seed Venture Capital Fund, Co Ventures. Maxine reflects on growing up between Australia, Japan and Europe, speaking Japanese before English, and raised by a fiercely entrepreneurial single mother. Vidit and Maxine explore her childhood, the influence of her grandparents, executive coaching, the idea of “generative ambition”, and the lessons learned from building companies, backing founders and how and why she started her own VC fund, Co Ventures. They also discuss the specifics of how the best Aussie founders go global, the realities of venture...