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Karl Durrance

Karl Durrance

Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand at Stripe

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A strategic senior executive, business builder and thought leader with over 25 years of experience in engineering, product, sales and leadership roles. In his current role, Karl is responsible for Stripe's business and operations in Australia and New Zealand, helping companies of all sizes to use Stripe's solutions to accelerate their business online and succeed globally.

Before joining Stripe, Karl led and built various parts of the AWS business across Australia & New Zealand, including establishing and building the New Zealand business, establishing and building the ISV & Software business and finally scaling the Enterprise business.

Karl is a passionate business builder with an energetic, innovative and collaborative leadership style. He has a track record of motivating and engaging teams to solve complex business challenges that consistently deliver world-class results.

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Career

  1. Now Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand · Stripe
  2. Earlier · Scale-up Managing Director, Enterprise Segment (Australia); built AWS · Amazon (AWS)
  3. Earlier Senior role, technology/leadership · Fujitsu
  4. Earlier Senior role, technology/leadership · KAZ Group (a Telstra company)
  5. Earlier Senior role, technology/leadership · Telstra

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Key moments

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  1. 2:18 Karl’s role at Stripe and the $1.4T payments scale
  2. 5:51 Startups hitting $5M ARR in under a year
  3. 6:57 AI Hacks: family holiday planning cutting through bureaucracy
  4. 12:34 Do Australian founders really need to move to SF?
  5. 17:39 Explaining agentic commerce (AI buying for you)
  6. 20:34 Shopping bots, travel assistants, and Amazon’s “Buy for Me”
  7. 22:25 How Stripe protects against rogue AI agents
  8. 25:14 Ticket scalpers, bots, and the arms race of fraud prevention
  9. 27:01 Fraud vs. scams: what’s really costing the economy
  10. 31:51 Why slowing payments down can actually prevent scams

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In The Blink Of AI · 11 September 2025 How Stripe Uses AI to Make Global Payments Feel Local

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