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The ‘SaaSpocalypse’ is reshaping venture capital. Australia should take notice

Opinion: AI is tearing up the old SaaS rule book and pushing venture capital towards a barbell of mega-bets and tiny cheques. Australia needs to pay close attention, argues Daniel Petre Venture capital, lazily defined, is capital invested into high-risk and hopefully high-return companies that disrupt tired market sectors with genuinely new products. That’s been […]

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Australia won’t win the AI arms race. We don’t need to

Opinion: Australia should play to its strengths in the AI era, leveraging critical minerals and renewable energy while ensuring global tech giants pay their fair share of tax, argues AirTree co-founder Daniel Petre AI is the biggest technological shift in modern history. It’s already smarter than us at a growing list of tasks, touches every […]

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Tech’s walk through the ‘valley of death’

This year’s been rough for tech investors and there’s likely more to come. AirTree founding partner Daniel Petre says canny investors and clever companies will make it through to the other side.

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