NTP Podcast

About NTP Podcast

Building Tech Teams is a weekly podcast on how Australia hires, builds, and leads tech teams in the age of AI. Host James MacDonald sits down with the founders, CTOs, VPs of Engineering and People Leaders building Australia's best tech teams, from startups to enterprise, on what actually works. How they hire, how they build and lead their teams, and the calls that made or broke them. It is built for the leaders making the hire and the tech professionals making the move. Building Tech Teams is produced by Day One®, trusted partners in the technology space and the team that spent more than three years helping to build Blackbird Ventures' Wild Hearts into one of Australia's best-known founder podcasts. Sister shows include First Cheque, Oversubscribed and In The Blink of AI. Episodes are cross-promoted across the network.

Publisher

NTP Talent

Category

business · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jul 2018

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

16 of 138 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Everybody Unpacks the Dishwasher: Ella Brennecke, People Operations Manager at Everlab

   James MacDonald interviews Ella Brennecke, People Operations Manager at Everlab, about building a strong company culture from scratch and leveraging AI in hiring.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Engineer Who Hasn't Written Code in 9 Months: Jack Rudenko, 10x Labs

   James MacDonald interviews Jack Rudenko, Partner and Chief AI and Technical Strategist at 10x Labs, about building AI-native engineering practices and the evolving role of engineers.

3. 

   25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of

   James MacDonald interviews industry experts Nathan Hill, Adam Witanowski, Claudia Barriga-Larriviere, Matt McFarlane, and Cloe Stanbridge on navigating AI-era compensation challenges and understanding the Australian tech pay gap.

Inside a recent episode

Why Everybody Unpacks the Dishwasher: Ella Brennecke, People Operations Manager at Everlab

Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] These are the decision makers. Like just being really transparent with all of that has just meant that all of that noise goes down. I think, you know, people need to feel safe and people can do their best work when they don't have a split focus, when they do feel safe in society. their role and their compensation and when decisions are going to be made and how they're going to be made. And so just being able to bring that in has meant that like people managers have something to say back. People know where they stand. We can even explain it on the way in during hiring. But it's just like giving people sort of these parameters to exist in and just kind of these safety nets means that people have definitely relaxed, less noise around it, and then they can focus on their work. […]

Who has been a guest on NTP Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ella Brennecke
• Jack Rudenko
• Nathan Hill
• Adam Witanowski
• Claudia Barriga-Larriviere

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

53,552

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

52

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

0

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Books guests

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