Delivery, AI, leadership, ventures
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Insights on mergers, acquisitions, and business strategy for Australian entrepreneurs
The platform is a commodity; your data is the fuel. Stop renting an AI advantage and start building a moat. If your data trains a general model, you're just funding a competitor’s future.
Before you automate a process with AI, ask if the process should exist at all. Most organizations are just making their bloat faster and more expensive.
Stop building "Zombie Corps." Automation looks elite on paper until you've hollowed out the human judgment that catches churn before it hits the P&L. If you can't explain the "why," you're just dying.
I reject every lunch meeting invite now. Not because I'm difficult, but because back-to-back meetings without food and a mental reset is a recipe for burnout. Here's why this boundary matters.
When redundancy hit us both, we had a choice: keep splitting focus or design deliberate roles. Here's why one income became our strategic advantage.