#125 Eytan Lenko: Jewish culture, Engineer to CEO, Making Australia a renewable energy superpower with Mike Cannon-Brookes, "Epics"

The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal

Eytan Lenko is CEO at Boundless, on a mission to make Australia a renewable energy superpower by 2030, backed by Atlassian Co-founder, Mike Cannon Brookes. He previously was a software engineer and co-founded 2 companies including Outware Mobile.

In this episode #125 w Eytan Lenko, learn about:

Think of this in two parts, with the first half being a deep dive into Eytan’s life influences and career decisions and the second half, a deep dive into his love affair with climate solutions and technology, how it started first at Beyond Zero Emissions and more recently as CEO at Boundless, the non for profit to make Australia a renewable energy superpower by 2030, backed by Atlassian Co-founder, Mike Cannon Brookes.

Learn about Eytan’s sunrise in Melbourne, his jewish heritage and the influences of his father, a chemical engineer turned entrepreneur and mum, a nurse turned a cosmetics sales extraordinaire, and his 3 sisters.

We cover his career track especially how he went from software engineer to CEO, and founding 2 companies along the way and influences living in Japan, Darwin and the UK.

I loved every minute of this, Eytan is candid, passionate, introspective and really lives up to our ethos of open direct access, and it’s a masterclass in the climate solutions today, how Eytan and his team are using the epic way of working and creating 100,000 jobs in the space today.

It’s now time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy!

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02:16 - Where were you born and live now?

02:33 - What was your first job and now?

03:45 - High Flyer in Eytan’s life

04:42 - WW2 and holocaust survivors

05:47 - 3 younger sisters

06:21 - Chemical engineer, programming and nursing

11:03 - kibbutz and Israel

13:01 - Friday night dinners with family

16:55 - Academic learning vs learning through doing

22:09 - Learning people leadership alongside technical skills

26:23 - Engineering to CEO

28:07 - How to go into a new company environment and drive alignment

31:00 - Founder transferable skills

33:48 - Learnings from Japan, Darwin and UK

37:33 - First date with climate

41:47 - Working in “epics”

47:44 - Electric Vehicles and Transportation

49:50 - Solving with government

54:38 - Cost of capital to unlock innovation

57:58 - 100,000 new jobs

01:01:40 - Rapid fire

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