Wesley Chan
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Sep 22, 2026
Jamie SiminoffGUEST
Maybe it was good back then.
Jamie SiminoffGUEST
And it was funny, actually, through that, I met a guy named Wes Chan.
Jamie SiminoffGUEST
And Wes Chan was at Google Voice.
Jamie SiminoffGUEST
And then he went to Google Ventures.
Jamie SiminoffGUEST
And then Wes Chan was actually the guy who I installed the ring on his house, who was then at the island with Richard Branson, who... who told Richard Branson about it, which is, again, this is like, for me, life is long.
Jamie SiminoffGUEST
Life's a marathon.
Jamie SiminoffGUEST
There's some entrepreneurs that come right out of the gates.
Douglas MackenzieGUEST
And we'll also, slightly under-upped at the moment, but we'll also be hearing from them on the main stage too.
Douglas MackenzieGUEST
Equally as well from the keynotes, we've got the brilliant Wesley Chan, who was the founder of Google Analytics and Voice, also a key investor in Canva.
Douglas MackenzieGUEST
So basically, if anyone's ever built a website, you've used some of uh you know some of his his tech um and also yeah keep front behind the investment behind robin hood um so just such an exciting fintech investor but also engineer himself so i think that's going to be fantastic um and then lastly just to cover those three kind of pillars that i mentioned the fun the investment the banking ceo um we've also got um André Amaral, the CEO of the Portuguese Premier League, who was a banker himself for 20 years and has reworked the entire business model of Portuguese football at that level, at the top level, by using what he's taken from banking.
Douglas MackenzieGUEST
So we finally get to have a little bit of fun in banking and find out how banking has actually helped another industry be more fair, which I think is going to catch a lot of people off guard.
SudarshanGUEST
I thought about Canva a lot.
SudarshanGUEST
You guys should talk to Wesley Chan about this too because he has a really interesting take.
SudarshanGUEST
But it's basically like the market is so big.
SudarshanGUEST
Tam is every single person that's just on the internet that needs to make anything at all.
Mike GibsonHOST
Sounds like he was a very, uh, smart guy.
Mike FergusonHOST
Venture capitalist Wesley Chan befriended Bob at Google.
Mike FergusonHOST
He said about Bob, "He was always humble.
Mike FergusonHOST
He'd say, 'Oh, I don't know if it's gonna work or not, but we'll try.'" And you know darn well, Gibbs, he knew it was gonna work.