In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
About Karl Durrance
Karl Durrance is Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand at Stripe, the online payments company, responsible for its business and operations in both countries. During his tenure Stripe has appointed its first New Zealand country head (2024) and designated its Sydney office a global engineering hub (2026).
Before Stripe he spent about a decade at Amazon Web Services, where he led the enterprise business in Australia. Earlier he held senior roles at Fujitsu, KAZ and Telstra, in a career of about 25 years in IT spanning support, operations, product management, sales and general management.
On In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy, he explained agentic commerce, how Stripe protects against fraud and rogue AI agents, and whether Australian founders need to move to San Francisco.
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- AI, Going Global, Product
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In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy Go straight to the good bits.
Key moments from How Stripe Uses AI to Make Global Payments Feel Local.
- 2:18Karl’s role at Stripe and the $1.4T payments scale
- 5:51Startups hitting $5M ARR in under a year
- 6:57AI Hacks: family holiday planning & cutting through bureaucracy
- 12:34Do Australian founders really need to move to SF?
- 17:39Explaining agentic commerce (AI buying for you)
- 20:34Shopping bots, travel assistants, and Amazon’s “Buy for Me”
- 22:25How Stripe protects against rogue AI agents
- 25:14Ticket scalpers, bots, and the arms race of fraud prevention
- 27:01Fraud vs. scams: what’s really costing the economy
- 31:51Why slowing payments down can actually prevent scams
The path so far.
- Now
Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand · Stripe
- Earlier · Scale-up
Managing Director, Enterprise Segment (Australia) · Amazon (AWS)
- Earlier
Senior role, technology/leadership · Fujitsu
- Earlier
Senior role, technology/leadership · KAZ Group (a Telstra company)
- Earlier
Senior role, technology/leadership · Telstra
Sources: eventible.com
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Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments…
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