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At Davos earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced a term that should be ringing alarm bells in every Australian boardroom: “Enterprise Sovereignty.” On the surface, it sounds like standard Silicon Valley jargon. But for a nation of “middle power” industries – our banks, law firms, and miners who often find themselves at the mercy of global software stacks – it touches a nerve, writes David Brudenell.

For years, Australia’s startup ecosystem has wrestled with a stubborn reality: if you weren’t technical, your odds of founding and funding a venture dropped dramatically. And because computer science classrooms have long skewed male, that technical barrier is one major aspect reinforcing the gender funding gap.

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