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DESCRIPTION Every business has a few people who are commercially brilliant and close to impossible to replace. Natalie Ashes thinks the answer is to clone them, not to go and hire another one. In this episode of Building Tech Teams, James MacDonald sits down with Natalie Ashes, CEO and founder of WorkClone, an Australian AI company that builds clones of a business's best people, from their voice t...

Episode Summary A pipe-crawling robot that maps water, energy and mining networks in 3D. A gripper that can feel how hard to hold something, solving one of the biggest gaps in robotics today. A modular drone with payloads that click together like LEGO. And what Freesia Gaul calls a PS4 remote for your hand, letting you feel objects inside video games. This episode of Oversubscribed was recorded li...

Many investors avoided antimicrobial resistance. Then Eli Lilly agreed to pay up to US$780 million for LimmaTech Biologics, a vaccine developer backed by Tenmile. Dr Steve Burnell explains what a contrarian thesis, pharma's growing appetite for early assets and Australia's funding gap mean for the next wave of biotech. This is the one episode you want to listen to if you want to know where Biotech...

Episode Summary Justin Wastnage is the founder and CEO of Vloggi, a platform that transforms everyday mobile phone footage into trusted, structured, legally owned video assets for businesses and enterprises. What started as a tool for tourism boards to crowdsource location content has evolved, through COVID, multiple pivots, and years of customer-funded development, into an infrastructure layer th...

Harry Uffindell has spent his career hiring the kind of people you don’t need to manage. From law, to consulting, to founding his own startup, to 5.5 years as CPO at Partly, and now building at Manifest - Harry has seen what happens when you trade quality for speed. In this episode of the FNDN Series, Harry joins Matt McFarlane to share why great hiring starts before the JD goes live, how he stole...

Third time's a charm! Alex Valente, CEO of Quarterzip and officially a friend of the show (whether he likes it or not), is BACK on In The Blink of AI , joining us live from San Francisco. And we've got a LOT to unpack. First, Alex shares an absolutely delicious AI hack that turns a whiteboard lecture into a polished blog post, complete with diagrams. Then we get into the AI headlines making everyo...

Canibuild's sales team used to record personalised prospect videos by hand. Each one took 15 to 20 minutes, so reps did them in bursts, when they had spare time. Mark Deacon replaced that routine with a system that scripts, produces and tracks the videos, and he opens his screen to show every step. Mark is Chief AI Officer at Canibuild. He has spent his career leading sales, marketing and customer...

Georgie Healy talks to Dilani Kahawala, who built Anna, an AI assistant for parents. Anna connects to your emails and calendars and surfaces what needs your attention through iMessage or WhatsApp, like a change to the swimming carnival instructions. They open on the admin that never stops. Georgie shares the day she completely forgot to pick up her son from school, and Dilani explains the mental l...

Georgie Healy talks to Guy Fenton, who heads up go-to-market for Akai, the AI workflow automation platform from Deel. Akai started as an internal tool at Deel and is now offered to other companies as a way to automate repetitive back-office work across finance, HR and operations. Georgie opens with the headless debate: if software no longer needs a login screen, does design still matter? Guy's ans...

Danny Seals has advised some of the most complex People teams in the world — big pharma, banking, and large-scale consultancies — and right now he's hearing the same thing from senior leaders everywhere: "I'm the most senior I've ever been in my career, and I feel like I'm the dumbest person. I'm burnt out. My experience has limited value because the instant answer is put it through ChatGPT." In t...

In Part Two of my conversation with Dr Steven Lu, Everlab’s co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, we unpack what’s actually worth measuring, which treatments show real promise, what’s still experimental and what the future of preventative healthcare could look like. And why, when it comes to optimising our health, we should be problem-centric, not solution-centric. We dive into: What keeps Steven...

Georgie Healy talks to Mirko Gropp, General Manager of Digital, Data and Technology at The Living Company, live from Dreamforce day three. The Living Company owns, develops and operates student housing, build-to-rent apartments and senior living across Australia, with around 2,000 people and about $17 billion in assets by Mirko's count. Mirko's take on the week: Salesforce going headless means the...

Nathan Clark runs three clients on three different AI stacks. One has standardised on Claude, the next on ChatGPT, and he doesn't have the luxury of picking just one. So he built a system that lets him move between models and agent apps without starting over each time. Nathan Clark, founder of ReadyGTM, helps companies sharpen and scale their go-to-market motion, with a growing focus on AI impleme...

Everlab has raised around A$80 million, including a recent A$65 million Series A, reached 20,000 patients and processed more than 21 million biomarker results. Now, after becoming one of Australia’s fastest-growing preventative health companies, it’s taking the model global. (Everlab) I first spoke to the Everlab team back in 2023. I loved what they were building then, but at the time there were p...

Jess co-founded Neighbourlytics in 2017, taking the placemaking work she'd done as CEO of CoDesign Studio and turning it into a data product that measures what people actually do in a neighbourhood. It grew to cover more than twenty thousand neighbourhoods across twelve countries, raised about five million dollars across five rounds, and was acquired by REA Group in late 2025. She walks through th...

Description Couldn't make it to Dreamforce? Salesforce is bringing the latest from the event to Sydney on 20 October and Melbourne on 27 October with Agentforce World Tour Essentials. Find out more: https://www.salesforce.com/au/events/ Recorded at Dreamforce 2026, Georgie sits down with Joe Inzerillo, President, Enterprise and AI Technology at Salesforce. Joe oversees Slack and leads Salesforce's...

Chad Stephens and three mates couldn't get a rental in Brighton. After filling out the same two-page paper application for property after property, Chad and his best mate Chris Koch went looking for an online version. There wasn't one, so they built it. That became 1Form, which ended up used across most of the Australian rental industry and was bought by REA Group in 2014. Everyone they pitched to...

Episode Summary Blackbird partner Tom has spent the last decade obsessing over one thing: why Australia talks about innovation from a place of doubt, while the US talks about it from a place of opportunity. From buying BHP as a kid through his parents, to operating at Canopy before it was acquired, to spending most of the 2010s investing out of Colorado and now back in Australia at Blackbird, Tom...

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar built Atlassian into one of Australia's most successful tech companies, and one of the rare local startups to become a global software giant. Then the partnership behind it came apart. Journalists John Stensholt and Perry Williams join Georgie to unpack their new book on the two co-founders: how they scaled a hundred-billion-dollar company side by side, and w...

Román Olivera runs his company on files and folders. No database, no CRM platform — a fractal system he calls Flatfish, built from plain text and a set of rules an agent reads before it does anything else. On this episode of Operator AI, he opens it up and shows exactly how it works. Román Olivera, from Orban Labs, walks Zachary King through the system live. Every folder that matters is a "node,"...

Australia hasn't built a new steel mill in more than 30 years. Greensteel Australia is about to — a $500 million all-electric plant on the old BHP site at Mayfield, producing 600,000 tonnes of rebar a year from the first quarter of 2028. Patrick Buchan, Greensteel's Head of Government Relations, joins James MacDonald on the Danieli technology being built in Italy right now, the policy shift that m...

Blake Nussey leads at Amazon on Alexa, and he joins Georgie for a deep dive into Alexa Plus, now live in Australia. They cover the shift from rigid voice commands to a true personal assistant powered by over 70 models, and why Amazon built a model agnostic architecture to trade off speed against reasoning depth. The conversation gets personal fast: a customer who broke her leg and called for help...

DESCRIPTION Most people teams wait until someone with an HR background is in the room before they build a culture function. Ella Brennecke didn't have one, and Everlab's culture is stronger for it. In this episode of Building Tech Teams, James MacDonald sits down with Ella Brennecke, People Operations Manager at Everlab, the preventative health company that has grown past 130 people across Sydney...

Stephen Wools has built creative agencies, toured Jordan Peterson and Theo Von, opened one of Melbourne's most talked-about bars, signed the biggest hospitality lease in the city's history four weeks before lockdown, and lost a house and millions of dollars along the way. His advice on how to survive all of it: be a cockroach. Stephen walks through how a floppy disk and a hungover all-nighter got...

A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has succeeded in a late-stage trial for the first time, and Moderna's shares ripped as much as 177% in a single day on the news. Cancer vaccines have been a graveyard for decades. Something changed. In the third What the Health Wrap, host Emily Casey is joined by two of her Tenmile colleagues — Dr Joey Man and Dr Michael Lamprecht, investors and scientists with r...