Elon Musk
Global tech

MUSK MIGHTS: X bans, rocket rides and cheaper Teslas – we asked Grok AI to predict the tech billionaire’s 2025 and here’s what it said

- January 14, 2025 6 MIN READ

Last week billionaire Elon Musk got a bit upset when an Australian journalist wrote a 2025 predictions column saying the US-based immigrant will resign as Tesla boss. “After constant controversies and distractions, it will all come to a head in 2025, and Musk will be forced to hand over the reins at Tesla, a company… Read more »

Elon Musk
Global tech

A billionaire who spent 10 years predicting things his companies still haven’t achieved gets triggered by tech prophecy

- January 6, 2025 3 MIN READ

In October last year, the world’s richest conspiracy theorist, Elon Musk, announced plans for a robotaxi, the Tesla Cybercab. Production would begin he said “in 2026”, before correcting himself to “before 2027”, because “I tend to be a little optimistic with timeframes”. That observation is an understatement inversely proportional to Musk’s wealth. So it wasn’t… Read more »

Ted Lasso
Leadership

What successful sports coaches can teach startup founders about bringing the best out of high-performance teams

- January 3, 2025 4 MIN READ

The study of leadership in high-performance coaching aims to deepen the understanding of how and why coaches lead the way they do, rather than just what they do. There has been increasing academic and applied interest in this area, particularly due to the significant impact coaches have on athlete and team performance, as well as… Read more »

Coffee dog
Business

New research looking into mental health in startups and how founders and investors interact needs your views

- December 4, 2024 2 MIN READ

A new Australian research initiative aiming to shed light on the often-overlooked mental health challenges facing founders and their relationship with investors, to address a critical knowledge gap in the startup community wants to know what you think. Recent international studies have revealed a significant disconnect between founders’ mental health struggles and their willingness to… Read more »

Woman, basketball match.
Business

She shoots, she scores! Robyn and Victoria Denholm now own a whole basketball league

- November 21, 2024 2 MIN READ

Tesla chair and Blackbird partner Robyn Denholm, has one-upped Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes, part owner of US NBA team the Utah Jazz, by buying an entire basketball league, the WNBL. The deal between the Wollemi Capital Group Syndicate (WCGS) and Larry Kestelman’s National Basketball League (NBL) consortium to acquire a majority stake in the Women’s National… Read more »

Humanitix cofounder Adam McCurdie presents The Life You Can Save director of philanthropy Louise Pfeiffer and co-CEO Andrea La Mesa with a $4 million donation, alongside his cofounder Josh Ross and ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer.
People

Why Humanitix is one of Australia’s very best startups

- May 13, 2024 2 MIN READ

Making a profit is atypical of most startups. Making substantial profits then giving them all away is next level. Which is what ticketing startup Humanitix does, donating 100% of its profits to charity. The Sydney-based online ticketing platform is backed by tech giants Google and Atlassian, and in just six years, the social impact startup… Read more »

The IT Crowd
People

Finding IT workers is a big problem for a third of Australian companies

- June 23, 2022 2 MIN READ

Australian businesses continue struggling to find staff, including IT professionals, as the ongoing labour shortage worsens. Almost one third (31% of employers the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) surveyed said they couldn’t find suitable candidates for jobs. Tom Joseph, Head of Industry Statistics at the ABS, said businesses weren’t getting many applicants for open job roles… Read more »