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About John Stensholt

John Stensholt is a business journalist at The Australian and editor of its annual Richest 250 list, based in Melbourne. He spent almost 19 years at Fairfax Media, including as Rich List editor at the Australian Financial Review, before moving to News Corp, and has also written for the Wall Street Journal. He has won multiple Citi Journalism awards and been named Business Journalist of the Year three times at the News Awards. In 2026 he co-authored Tech Bros with Perry Williams, an investigation into Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, and discussed it on In The Blink Of AI.

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Key moments from Atlassian After the Co-CEO Era: What Comes Next?.

  1. 0:00Cold open
  2. 0:47This week's AI headline: an OpenAI agent inside Medicare
  3. 2:55Meet John Stensholt and Perry Williams, authors of Tech Bros
  4. 5:05The farewell dinner
  5. 9:51Why Mike and Scott wouldn't talk to the authors
  6. 11:28Point Piper neighbours
  7. 16:17Private school vs public school: did class play a part?
  8. 19:33How two journalists split and wrote one book
  9. 22:02Atlassian's share price rollercoaster
  10. 23:57Can Atlassian navigate AI and become a 2.0?

The path so far.

  1. Now

    Business journalist · The Australian

  2. 1999–2018

    Rich List Editor / business journalist · The Australian Financial Review / BRW

Sources: mumbrella.com.au

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