In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
About Benjamin Plummer
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.
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Key moments from Benjamin Plummer (Dragonfly Intelligence) on AI's Real Bottleneck, and Why He's Betting on Australia.
- 0:00Cold open
- 2:36Hack of the week: the "rambling session"
- 5:13Georgie's hack: the NFC nail chip
- 6:12When ChatGPT tried to break its own harness
- 13:14AI makes coding fast, everything else the bottleneck
- 18:19Nine years inside Bridgewater
- 21:37Building Elemental Cognition with Watson's inventor
- 24:26Scaling Invisible from $10M to $160M
- 26:06Why Dragonfly Intelligence
- 27:59Spotting "zombie companies" in the AI gold rush
The path so far.
- 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
Dragonfly on Day One
Dragonfly (dragonfly.com.au) describes itself as Australia's first AI-native holding company. It acquires established, people-intensive services businesses and rebuilds…
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