Benjamin Plummer
Co-founder & CEO at Dragonfly
Benjamin Plummer is co-founder and chief executive of Dragonfly, a Sydney firm that buys established services businesses and rebuilds them as AI-native companies. He spent nearly a decade at Bridgewater Associates working alongside Ray Dalio before leading the spin-out of Elemental Cognition with IBM Watson's creator. He then became chief executive of Invisible Technologies, growing it past US$160 million in revenue with more than 400 staff and clients including OpenAI, Google and Microsoft; Inc. 5000 ranked it the second-fastest-growing AI company in the US. On In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy, he discussed AI's real bottleneck and why he is betting on Australia's services economy.
Career
- Now Co-founder & CEO · Dragonfly
- Earlier · Scale-up CEO · Invisible Technologies
- Earlier · Startup Led spin-out (Bridgewater + IBM Watson co-creator venture) · Elemental Cognition
- Earlier Research, client service and firm-wide strategy · Bridgewater Associates
- Earlier Advisory · EY
Sources: omny.fm
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of Benjamin Plummer (Dragonfly Intelligence) on AI's Real Bottleneck, and Why He's Betting on Australia you want.
- 0:00 Cold open
- 2:36 Hack of the week: the "rambling session"
- 5:13 Georgie's hack: the NFC nail chip
- 6:12 When ChatGPT tried to break its own harness
- 13:14 AI makes coding fast, everything else the bottleneck
- 18:19 Nine years inside Bridgewater
- 21:37 Building Elemental Cognition with Watson's inventor
- 24:26 Scaling Invisible from $10M to $160M
- 26:06 Why Dragonfly Intelligence
- 27:59 Spotting "zombie companies" in the AI gold rush
Connections
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