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About Perry Williams

Perry Williams is Chief Business Correspondent at The Australian, covering the country's biggest companies and corporate deals. He previously covered energy and resources for the paper, and has held reporting roles at Bloomberg, covering Asia energy markets, and at The Australian Financial Review as resources editor. With John Stensholt, he co-wrote Tech Bros, tracing how Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar built Atlassian from a Glebe share house into one of Australia's biggest technology companies. On In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy, he discussed the inside story of Atlassian and Australia's tech wealth. He holds a journalism diploma from Massey University, New Zealand.

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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?

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The Australian is a national broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964, headquartered in Surry Hills, Sydney.

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