big bets & bad calls with Trove

<p>Sheree Andersen didn&#39;t set out to be an entrepreneur. She grew up on a Tasmanian farm, spent two decades in corporate HR, and stumbled into startups when she fell in love with building something from nothing.</p><p>In this episode, Sheree — Co-Founder of Trove, the platform supercharging how brands manage corporate gifting at scale — walks us through the bets that defined her journey: leaving a working business behind to build something entirely new, sending co-founder Johnny to Singapore without a single local contact, and deliberately targeting Asia&#39;s gifting culture before anyone told them to.</p><p>She also gets honest about the bad calls: building before validating, hiring before the business was ready, and chasing big partnership opportunities that quietly went nowhere.</p><p>We get into AI, team culture, the female founder funding gap, and why saying no is sometimes the most powerful thing you can do.</p><p>Warm, candid, and full of hard-won wisdom.</p>