Innovation Gap Year with HEX

Hard Mode

Welcome to this episode of Hard Mode Podcast featuring HEX founder Jeanette Cheah. The HEX team help thousands of young people bring their future to life by training up future startup founders, social activists and corporate innovators ,and giving them the skills, tools and brain-hacks they need.

HEX are creating a generation of leaders who take action to create the world they want to live in, via seriously fun virtual programs, study abroad experiences and hackathon-style events that 5000+ students have loved.

We talk about the transferral of magic to pivot HEX into what it is today, creating their own category, fundraising, the value in social capital and the factors of Jeanette's upbringing that have influenced the flavour of HEX's 'Innovation Gap Year' mission.

Talking points:

• ‘Love a Good Origin Story’
• The beginnings of the HEX journey
• Testing the MVP and developing the partnerships
• Transferring the magic in order to pivot when the world changed
• Interrupting the flow by creating HEX’s own category
• Resilience building through early International exposure
• Not likely to shift to ‘EASY MODE’
• Network building for growth support
• The value in social capital
• Fundraising with an overwhelmingly high percentage of women investors
• Receiving signals from the wider world, for Innovation Gap Year
• Hex-cellent moments to reflect on

Links:

• HEX
• General Assembly
• Kathy Rhodes
• LMBDW
• RMIT
• SBE
• SXSW
• Tractor Ventures

Online:

www.startwithhex.com

HEX on Instagram: @startwithhex

HEX on Twitter: @startwithhex

www.tractorventures.com

Follow Tractor Ventures on Twitter: @tractorventures

This episode was hosted by Noga Edelstein: @nogsE