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Andrew Wilks

Professor got nothing from the $2.8b sale of his molecule, and that’s okay

Discovering a cancer-busting molecule opened the door for PM’s prize-winning scientist Andrew Wilks’ next career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist making killer returns.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

‘Alexa, hook up my brain’: Synchron hits major ‘medical milestone’

Australian brain-computer interface start-up Synchron has hit another target ahead of its Elon-Musk-led rival with a successful trial in six American patients – one of whom had his brain hooked up to Alexa.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Jack Cowin on the latest greatest idea he’s “stolen” from the US

The Hungry Jacks founder who bought KFC to Australia and took over Dominos is still at it, this time borrowing from Chick-fil-A that’s tripled profit.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
Lachlan Murdoch

Lachlan Murdoch: Holding the keys to the empire and, maybe, the future of democracy

Three-part series on Lachlan Murdoch sheds light on the family’s media empire and the ongoing battle to control it.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
Bae Juice

Bae in the USA: Juiced pear trio take on Big Apple

Bae Juice, armed with $1 million from online gambling magnate Laurence Escalante, learns how hard it is to take a drinks brand to the US.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

JJ’s genes: Son of Lululemon founder ships first load of legal ecstasy to Australia

Suppliers of magic-mushroom-derived psilocybin and MDMA, aka ecstacy, are rushing to meet the market created by Australia having allowed their clinical use. Two founders speak to Forbes Australia.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
David Reilly Microsoft Quantum computing

It’s not you, it’s me: Sydney quantum lab’s break up with Microsoft

David Reilly worried that breaking up with Microsoft had thrown his Sydney-based quantum computing team’s future into peril… Then the phone started ringing.  

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
Canva giveaway

Canva hits a billion-dollar milestone … without realising

Canva has been giving away a billion dollars of its premium product every year and hadn’t bothered to count.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Give 6-year-olds the vote to stop killer AI robots. Are you angry yet?

Of all the dangerous ideas he’s canvassed, author and academic David Runciman finds child suffrage is the one that gets the rotten tomatoes flying.

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff

Fung’s task: Selling Airtasker equity for airtime

Founder Tim Fung has turned his jobs marketplace, Airtasker, into a household name thanks to shrewd deals giving media companies a slice of the action, but cracking the US hasn’t been quite so simple

  • By Mark Whittaker
  • Forbes Staff
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