Oversubscribed with Brendan Hill Pain is a Moat: How Australia’s Top AI Founders Are Building Global Giants
With Anshul Jain, Jacky Koh
About Pasha Rayan
A1Base -Turn Your AI Logic Into Your Customer's AI CoWorker. The API to give AI Agents a phone number, an email and a trusted identity. Give your AI agents real-world capabilities beyond just chat interfaces.
Also a student at Julian Ashton Art School!
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Key moments from Pain is a Moat: How Australia’s Top AI Founders Are Building Global Giants.
- 2:25SF vs Australia: The 6 to 9 Month AI Gap
- 5:00The 10 to 20 Times Engineering Productivity Unlock
- 8:20How Founders Use AI Agents Inside Their Companies
- 10:54What Twilio for AI Agents Really Means
- 12:39Making AI Agents Relatable for Everyday People
- 15:45Culture, Ambition and the Australian Mindset
- 19:37Autonomous Healthcare: What AI Doctors Actually Look Like
- 22:18The $100B Ambition Mindset
- 31:33Why Hard Problems Create Real Moats
- 33:32Inside Everlab’s Massive Seed Round
The path so far.
- Now
CEO and Co-Founder · A1Base
- Until 2024 · Startup
Co-founder · Forage (formerly InsideSherpa)
- Earlier · Scale-up
Product role (growth initiatives) · Freelancer.com
- From 2012
Consultant · KPMG
Sources: businessthink.unsw.edu.au
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