Calling Operator with Laura Nicol

Laura Nicol

Join Laura Nicol (your host) as she dials into the stories of startup operators in the trenches of building and scaling companies. Together, we master the art of ‘building the plane while flying it', drawing on insights from leaders and rising stars at companies like Tracksuit, Canva, Culture Amp, Atlassian, me&u, Airwallex, Eucalyptus, and more. Laura's day job is Chief of Staff to Maxine Minter﹢Co Ventures—all views shared on this podcast are her own.

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Calling Operator with Laura Nicol

Episodes (58)

Dec 8, 2025 Ep 57. Leading Across Different Stages & Contexts—Laura Warden
Nov 24, 2025 Ep 56. The Multi-Domain Operator with Kai Crow
Oct 6, 2025 Ep 55. Anna Prell on Building Forage, Being Acquired and Building Again

Calling Operator with Laura Nicol

Dec 8, 2025
55¼ minutes
51 MB

After 19 conversations with some of the sharpest operators around, I’m closing the year** with someone who rewired how I think about building process: Laura Warden. Your job as an operator is to make things work. So you do. You patch. You duct-tape. You make something 10% better, then 15%, then 20%. Over time, you get excellent at optimising a system that (maybe) shouldn’t exist in the first place. Laura brought me back to the idea of constructing or reconstructing from first principles: “If you could build this optimally from day one, would it look like this?” She’s ope...

Calling Operator with Laura Nicol

Ep 57. Leading Across Different Stages & Contexts—Laura Warden

Laura Nicol

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