Open the Pod Bay Doors
Hosted by Ian Gardiner and Ian · Innovation Bay
5.0from 10 ratings
- 232
- Episodes
- 21
- Transcribed
- 10
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 24K
- YouTube views
About Open the Pod Bay Doors
There is a lot of activity in the Australian startup ecosystem. Ideas, talent, and money are all flowing into this sector at an unprecedented rate. This weekly podcast brings in-depth interviews with the best people making the biggest difference. It's brought to you by Ian Gardiner and Phaedon Stough, technology entrepreneurs helping to grow the startup sector in Australia and New Zealand. Ian and Phaedon co-founded Innovation Bay with a clear mission to help technology entrepreneurs succeed.
- Publisher
- Innovation Bay
- Category
- business · news · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Jun 2017
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
21 of 232 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Darren Miller, CEO of ARENA
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Jonathan Yip, HSBC Innovation Banking
28 Apr 2026
E192 – Ella Grier, Google Cloud
Inside a recent episode
Darren Miller, CEO of ARENA
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You just look at raw economics and people follow the money, and the money will go towards solar, batteries, EVs, ultimately wind, although it's had its moments in terms of cost increases. But these technologies get better and better, get cheaper and cheaper, largely cheaper and cheaper, and will outperform fossil fuel. And we can see that happening in the Australian electricity market. I mean, if you look at the stats, You know, Q1 back in 2020, let's say roughly when we started talking, Ian, renewables were sitting at about 20% to 24%, something in that range. Renewables now average close to 50% in the NEM, so sort of call it doubling, almost doubled in that period of time. […]
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- Darren Miller
- Jonathan Yip
- Ella Greer
- Matt Loop
- Evan Walden
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- YouTube views
- 23,517
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 85
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Ian Gardiner and Ian host the show. Published by Innovation Bay.
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