F9D focuses on performance in the first 90 days, when habits form, expectations are set, and small decisions start to compound.
Hosted by the co-founders of Generate, the show draws from their experience building a recruitment platform designed for people taking on real commercial risk early.
Conversations center on what tends to work, what often goes wrong, and how early business development, time allocation, and decision-making affect outcomes later. Episodes include reflections on early wins and missteps, as well as discussions with guests who have built teams, books of business, or companies and can speak concretely about what helped them gain traction at the start.
The aim is not motivation or theory, but practical insight into how the first 90 days are actually navigated when results matter and feedback is immediate.
In this episode, Charlie and Seb go into the process of controlling a late stage candidate, making offers, and getting deals across the line in a systematic way.
11 Feb 2026
Episode 3 - Preparing a Candidate for an Interview
In this episode, Charlie and Seb dive into the process of preparing a candidate for an interview. We go into the systems, the mistakes, and mindset needed to truly add value at this critical stage.
4 Feb 2026
F9D Episode 2 New Candidate Meetings
In this session Charlie and Seb go through their approach to screening a candidate for the first time. Introductions, long term equity, and controlling the process. Enjoy!
29 Jan 2026
F9D Episode 1 Our Early Journey
Our first episode for the Generate network! Today we went through the BD techniques, the highs and the lows of our first 90 days running Inventure back in 2018.
28 Oct 2025
Dr Emily Brearley - Are The World's Biggest Institutions Failing?
Dr. Emily Brearley has spent 25 years inside the world’s most powerful institutions — the World Bank, USAID, and the Inter-American Development Bank — leading programs across Africa, Latin America, and Asia. She’s advised the Libyan Central Bank, fought corruption inside public finance systems, and chaired the Energy Working Group for the IDB, coordinating investment strategies on renewables, taxation, and infrastructure.
But what happens when institutions built to fight poverty start protecting themselves instead?
In this episode, Emily pulls back the curtain on the hidden incentives, quiet corruption, and moral decay inside the global aid industry. She shares stories from the field — from failed billion-dollar projects to the human cost of bureaucratic blindness — and explains how good people lose their integrity inside systems that reward silence over truth.
We explore what it really means to lead when the system itself is broken — and how courage, empathy, and realism can still exist inside the machinery of power.
If you’ve ever wondered why big institutions struggle to deliver on big promises, this episode is a masterclass in leadership, incentives, and the psychology of doing good in a world built for comfort, not truth.
24 Jun 2025
Neboysa Omčikus: Lessons from Building a $20B Startup
Neboysa Omčikus shares lessons from helping build Rubrik into a $20B company and now leading strategy at Glean, discussing talent identification, overcoming imposter syndrome, and building career-defining teams in this interview.
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