Fireside Chat with Peter Davison, 1st Investor in Paypal and Fishburners Founder

Come along to the inspiring fireside chat with Peter Davison, the Fishburners founder and the first investor in Paypal. We'll discuss the early days of Paypal, female entrepreneurship, the do's and don'ts of starting a startup and more.

About Peter Davison:

Peter Davison is a widely diversified venture investor, having Co-founded Godel Capital in 1998 a Silicon Valley based boutique venture firm that was an early investor in a little company called PayPal - a company that went on to exit for $1.5 Billion USD. Other notable exits that Godel participated in included Anonymizer, and Houston airport border patrol. After returning home to Australia, Peter then went on to start Ideogue Ventures in Canberra, bootstrapped the company to seven figure profits from his bedroom with virtualised team of 25 people.

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In 2011 Peter co-founded Fishburners - Australia’s biggest co-working space, now based in Sydney, Brisbane and Shanghai.

In 2014 Peter moved to Shanghai to explore new ideas. Having joined Shanghai based Chinaccelerator and Hanghzou based Plug and Play as active mentor, Pete continued his investing activities as an active angel investor. Before this Peter helped co-found juaicai.cn - a P2P company based out of Beijing that now turns 1 billion in RMB per month.

In 2016 Peter was the first foreigner judge to participate in The Next Unicorn - The first reality TV show about global startups and innovation themed off the TV show the Shark Tank. This program is run by Chinese-Australian Daniel Shi, a good friend and colleague of Peter, who also is also an active investor in early stage companies through his venture investing company - Seed23.