For young people in the early stages of their career, the idea of waiting 40 years or more to retire might feel like a marathon. For those already feeling burnt out, it can be an excruciating thought. So – why not take a break or two somewhere along the way? The concept of “micro-retirement” is… Read more »
Julie Trell believes play makes you a better founder. American-born Julie has been helping startup teams around the world build their imaginations and sense of adventure for decades as the founder of Playful Purpose. One way she does it is with “Yes…. and…” She gives Startup 360 host Simon Thomsen and Kayla Medica a simple… Read more »
Australian Super has sold holding in logistics software giant WiseTech Global in recent weeks as founder Richard White returned to the business as chairman. The superannuation fund had more than 2.2% of WiseTech (ASX: WTC) shares and had backed the business since its 2016 float. But governance concerns amid board resignations and White’s elevation to… Read more »
There was next to nothing for the tech and startup sector in the 2025 federal budget as the Labor government prepares to call an election and seek a second term. For the second year in a row, the government has delivered little for the startup sector and it does not feature specifically in the budget.… Read more »
This year marks 20 years since Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, having kicked it off as The Facebook in 2004. He was already notorious for Facemash, the “hot or not” site that ranked Harvard students by their attractiveness, which he created in late 2003. Zuckerberg hacked into house face book websites at the university to get… Read more »
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has been ordered by a US court to provide details on how scammers use the social media platform to create scams ads as part of legal action by Dr Andrew Forrest. The WA mining billionaire has been doing battle with Facebook both here and in California for the last three years… Read more »
Is the title “founder” this decade’s version of wanting to be a Masterchef or influencer? Startup 360 cohost Kayla Medica has a theory. “So many people now have glamourised being a founder, being an entrepreneur, that there’s a whole host of people who just start businesses with that in mind, and they’re not actually starting… Read more »
WiseTech Global’s founder and newly appointed board chair Richard White “made inaccurate and incomplete disclosures concerning the nature and duration of his relationship” involving two employees, but has pledged to do better, an ongoing report into his behaviour as the former CEO has found. Releasing a 9-page update to the ASX, WiseTech said the board… Read more »
Social media giant Meta is attempting to lessen the impact of a tell-all memoir by its former director of global public policy Sarah Wynn-Williams, titled Careless People, which the company alleges is “defamatory”. Meta won an emergency arbitration ruling in the United States on Wednesday, where an absent Wynn-Williams was ordered to temporarily stop personally promoting… Read more »
Within six months, I bootstrapped my startup to 1.4 million users. Two years later, our software is used by 16 million people worldwide Venture capitalists scoffed when I said I was self-funding (bootstrapping) my new artificial intelligence startup. Other industry veterans I spoke with said competing without a fair whack of VC dollars was a… Read more »
When two junior employees bump into each other in the corridor and start chatting about their manager’s overbearing manner, it’s typically considered gossip. But what about when two managers have an off-record catch-up to discuss an under-performing employee? Both scenarios meet traditional definitions of gossip – the information being shared is about other people, the… Read more »
Lee Hickin, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence policy lead for Asia, has departed the tech giant after more than six years to become the new director of the National AI Centre (NAIC). The NAIC was established in 2021 to support and accelerate Australia’s AI industry. Its inaugural director, Stela Solar, herself a former Microsoft executive, stepped down… Read more »
When do you know you’re CEO material? It’s the question Startup 360 host Simon Thomsen put to Majella Campbell, the newly appointed CEO of Fishburners, Australia’s pioneering startup coworking space. Majella talked about her mentor, Myles Baron-Hay, the former Sydney Swans CEO, saying “why not?” when she had her doubts. “When I was unsure about… Read more »
Let’s cut through the noise. Entrepreneurs love the grind. They wear struggle like a badge of honour – how many hours they’ve worked, how many startups they’ve launched, how many failures they’ve endured. They call it resilience. Businesspeople call it wasted effort. Because here’s the truth no one wants to hear: The world doesn’t pay… Read more »
Nobody really understands the torment of being a billionaire, especially those very mean people at the AFR. After luxury jet-shaming Mike Cannon-Brookes and outing him as the owner of a Bombardier 7500 – you can pick one up for around $100 million on Facebook marketplace – the Atlassian CEO felt compelled to defend himself on… Read more »
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