Innovation

The first Black woman to direct a $100 million-grossing film is shunning the Hollywood studios and their rules – and turning to philanthropists like Melinda French Gates.

Wojcicki was a Silicon Valley pioneer, becoming Google’s first marketing manager in its early days and YouTube CEO in 2014.

Whisper cofounder Michael Heyward’s second company made a $1.1 billion business out of acquiring floundering startups like Imgur, Genius and Kik. Then came the lawsuits.

CEO Phillippa Watson has been at the helm of ubank for three years. Forbes Australia sits down with the banking dynamo to find out what a Gen Z banking customer is looking for, and what she is doing to give it to them.

Forbes released its list of the 200 Best companies currently valued under a Billion. Of 18 Australian companies on the list, just one is led by a woman. Meet the CEO at the helm of an innovative Melbourne-headquartered education firm.

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.  

Now worth $2.8 billion, Groq thinks it can challenge one of the world’s most valuable companies with a purpose-built chip designed for AI from scratch.

Musk withdrew an original lawsuit earlier this year, after claiming OpenAI and its founders were developing AI to “maximize profits” instead of benefiting humanity.

Can Generative AI be used to create an actual advertising film from scratch? 

Australian venture capital firm Foxglove Capital says fusion energy is the “ultimate energy source” – and its backed US fusion energy company Type One to prove it.