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‘Culture clash’: Inside three years of transformation and tumult at Xero

Forbes Australia spoke with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and thirteen current and former staff about Xero’s push to go global, and what it has cost.

Featured

Canva cofounders Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams.

Ranked: Australia’s best employers in 2026

Ed Craven

Australia’s youngest billionaire Ed Craven places his next big venture bet

Google and Amazon are the reason for Anthropic’s eye-watering $42 billion loss

White House Releases ‘Accord’ Between Billionaire AI Execs: Here’s What It Says

Australia's Real Time Rich List: Top 50 Billionaires Ranked. See the full Forbes Rich List.

Live: Australia’s Real-Time Rich List

Life

Rimowa Never Still cross-body

Rimowa goes all in on leather for its latest bag drop

These fitness fans took bootleg peptides. It landed them in the hospital.

Drive an Alfa Romeo across Italy as part of a luxury grand tour

Billionaire Taylor Swift announces surprise new single ‘Patient Zero’

Ulysse Nardin adds Enamel and Guilloché to freak one

Dolly Parton’s estate sues her nephew alleging ‘I’m a killer’ threats

Issue 24

Sam Kennard, CEO of Kennards Self Storage.

How Sam Kennard built his family’s storage business into a $4.5 billion empire

The business of Sam Kerr: Inside the Matildas captain’s next chapter

Graphic illustration of dice and board game

Where I’m putting the money: Rory Hunter

Forbes Creators

The new rules of influence: How Australia’s top creators turn followers into fortunes

‘This is what I always say to young people’: Susie Grehl’s reality check for Gen Z investors

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 24

Billionaires

Trump hosting billionaires at AI lunch: Zuckerberg, Amodei, Huang among these attendees

DOJ investigating executors of Epstein’s estate, report says

Zuckerberg’s push for ‘personal superintelligence’ adds $25 billion to his fortune

Here’s how much Donald Trump is worth

Rich List

Canva valuation marked down by US titans T. Rowe Price and Franklin Templeton

Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang reportedly convinced Trump to block AI regulator

Entrepreneurs

Promethean BioPharma

The $200 million CBD gamble: Inside the Australian biotech betting on a cannabis pill

Inside alcheMe: Rebecca Judd’s new formula for tween skincare

Beyond the burn: How a trans-Pacific leap built Glasshouse Fragrances

Wendy McCarthy’s quiet campaign to fund next-gen rebel women

Bondi to Baroque: Camilla Franks’ palatial, but distilled, evolution

Samsara Eco kicks off $100m raise to recycle critical minerals

Innovation

Bill Gates at TIME100 Summit 2022

AI is ‘powerful’ enough to ‘cause a billion deaths’: Bill Gates warns

Elon Musk says SpaceX’s AI model may surpass Anthropic and OpenAI’s in 6 months

OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says

NZ’s richest woman targets Seek with AI recruitment startup

X adds private codes for calls, but says it is ‘not a phone number’

Heidi hits $1.2 billion valuation with $480 million in fresh funding

BrandVoice

As commercial real estate private credit evolves, clarity becomes a competitive advantage

Australia’s great wealth transfer: How Australia’s wealthiest families are rewriting the rules of inheritance

Why AI’s real superpower isn’t predicting markets

Investing

‘Culture clash’: Inside three years of transformation and tumult at Xero

RBA Rate Decision Tracker (September, 2026)

RBA hikes cash rate by 25 basis points to highest level in 15 years

Oracle stock slides after company issued ‘force majeure’ notice for major data center project

Oura sets terms for up to $2.2 billion IPO

Nike shares edge lower after converse ad controversy, Mbappé exit

Leadership

Oracle filing reveals Co-CEO made 6,623 times the company’s median worker

Jane Goodall’s lasting lessons for our planet

How 540 AFLW players became the world’s biggest women’s league

U.S. and China discuss AI alert system for safety incidents

Serena Williams has a message for women – Over or Under 30

Dolly Parton’s life at 80 taught women to live fully at every age

Tap here to see the full 30 Under 30 list.