Tech Exec // Matt Vitale: Executive Director at New Dialogue

About this episode

Matt Vitale discusses his journey from nightlife promoter to AI adoption strategies in enterprises.

In this episode of Tech Execs, James MacDonald heads to Melbourne to sit down with Matt Vitale, former co-founder of Australia’s largest equity crowdfunding platform and now Executive Director at New Dialogue. Matt traces his winding path from nightlife promoter and sugarcane juice tinkerer to financial services lawyer, then startup pioneer, where he helped more than 300 companies raise over $250M. He shares the breakout Sheba Rideshare campaign, why storytelling and community trump slick code, and how a $300K LaunchVic grant sparked a hardware-focused angel network that became their most successful to date. Tune in to hear Matt break down how enterprises can safely adopt AI by deploying open-source large language models inside their own secure environments—model-agnostic, auditable, and up in days, not months. He makes the case for bottom-up experimentation, rapid pilots, and why compliance-by-design will be the real moat as regulation catches up. Alongside the professional achievements, Matt also shares the daily practices (think meditation, breath work, and long works) that helped him reset following burnout. A must listen for those working in the rapidly evolving AI space.

People in this episode

Host: James MacDonald

Guest: Matt Vitale

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• startup funding
• storytelling in business
• community engagement
• financial services
• burnout recovery

Keywords

• AI
• equity crowdfunding
• startup
• community
• storytelling
• LaunchVic
• burnout
• financial services
• hardware-focused angel network

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New Dialogue, LaunchVic, Sheba Rideshare, Australia

Places: Melbourne

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