In our podcast, Your Undivided Attention, co-hosts Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin and Daniel Barcay explore the unprecedented power of emerging technologies: how they fit into our lives, and how they fit into a humane future. Join us every other Thursday as we confront challenges and explore solutions with a wide range of thought leaders and change-makers — like Audrey Tang on digital democracy, neurotechnology with Nita Farahany, getting beyond dystopia with Yuval Noah Harari, and Esther Perel ...
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Here I speak about many random topics like science, history, Political view within ten minutes in my own Native language Tamil.
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Mixed Feelings is a podcast hosted by Lara and Chris Ngu. Tune in weekly to hear us discuss the world around us, and have conversations about our experiences navigating life through different lenses.
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Get the fearless truth about start-ups and corporate Australia from guys that give you the hard facts, not the company line. Hear Luxury Escapes co-founder Adam Schwab and Catapult Sports Exec Chairman Adir Shiffman provide the inside word on the biggest stories in business with a contrarian take from the guys who sit on both sides of the table. New episodes dropping weekly.
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Welcome to The Get Online Podcast. The show is focused on helping you, the motivated business owner, implement interesting marketing ideas that will help to give your business the limelight it deserves. Tune in to hear me ask business owners the big questions we all want the answers to: How I get more customers? How can social media help my business? What is the best marketing to focus on? How do I scale my business effectively? Can my personal brand be used as an asset? If you are ready to ...
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Conversations with the world’s best documentary filmmakers — directors, cinematographers, audio experts, editors, producers, writers — about how they got their start and how they tell stories.
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Wisetech, how to get great Service, Universities and the guys speak to Ben from Acquired
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Adam and Adir chat to Ben Gilbert from Acquired about his incredible journey to become one of the world’s best podcasters, the rise and fall of Wisetech’s Richard White and problems at the Tech Council of Australia, are universities broken and Adir’s secrets to getting amazing customer service Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.…
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When the "Person" Abusing Your Child is a Chatbot: The Tragic Story of Sewell Setzer
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Content Warning: This episode contains references to suicide, self-harm, and sexual abuse. Megan Garcia lost her son Sewell to suicide after he was abused and manipulated by AI chatbots for months. Now, she’s suing the company that made those chatbots. On today’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, Aza sits down with journalist Laurie Segall, who'…
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23AndMe Fallout, #Desperate to Work, is the LVMH era over, Waymo Dominates and the Carry-On Baggage Dilemma
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The guys discuss the issues at 23AndMe and whether users data is safe, the growing wealth gap between the young and the old, LVMH’s China worries, the incredible growth of Waymo’s self-driving cars and how do you solve a problem like carry-on baggage.
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Is Wisetech the most Overvalued Big Business in Australia, Canva Backs Down, Doctors, Biggest Social Media Platforms and Listener Questions
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The guys discuss why Wisetech is so richly valued by speculators, Canvas’s surprisingly price hike retreat, GPs behaving badly, who are the world’s biggest social media platforms and when should you set up a business? Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-contrarians-with-adam-and-adir-podcast Subscribe on …
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Is It AI? One Tool to Tell What’s Real with Truemedia.org CEO Oren Etzioni
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Social media disinformation did enormous damage to our shared idea of reality. Now, the rise of generative AI has unleashed a flood of high-quality synthetic media into the digital ecosystem. As a result, it's more difficult than ever to tell what’s real and what’s not, a problem with profound implications for the health of our society and democrac…
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Qatar Virgin Magic, OpenAI Goes All In, Netflix Dominates, SPC goes Original and is AirBNB done?
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The guys chat about Qatar’s Virgin Masterclass, OpenAI goes from curing humanity to maximising profit, Netflix’s competitive advantage, SPC and Original Juice’s original deal, AirBNB’s new old competitor and Croc’s newest squeeze Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-contrarians-with-adam-and-adir-podcast S…
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'A Turning Point in History': Yuval Noah Harari on AI’s Cultural Takeover
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Historian Yuval Noah Harari says that we are at a critical turning point. One in which AI’s ability to generate cultural artifacts threatens humanity’s role as the shapers of history. History will still go on, but will it be the story of people or, as he calls them, ‘alien AI agents’? In this conversation with Aza Raskin, Harari discusses the histo…
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RedBubble Disaster, Hipages’ Quiet Achieving, Self-Driving’s Big Impacts, Cygnett, Ticketing Illegality and FIFA Depreciation
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The guys discuss an activist investor coming for the RedBubble/Articore disaster, is Hipages the quiet achiever of the ASX, the huge impacts of self-driving, Cygnett’s product genius, FIFA’s price drop and Gandel’s genius Chadstone acquisition Thanks for listening! Read the article: https://bit.ly/4en7ozy Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.c…
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‘We Have to Get It Right’: Gary Marcus On Untamed AI
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It’s a confusing moment in AI. Depending on who you ask, we’re either on the fast track to AI that’s smarter than most humans, or the technology is about to hit a wall. Gary Marcus is in the latter camp. He’s a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist who built his own successful AI start-up. But he’s also been called AI’s loudest critic. On Y…
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WFH Death Throes, Which Jobs Make the Most Money, Myer and the Retail Armageddon, BuildABear v Squishmellow Cash Fight
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The guys discuss Amazon’s move to bring staff back five days a week, which professions make the most money and why, Myer’s big moves and is big retail dead, the BuildABear and Squishmellow litigation and why are so many great Founders dyslexic Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-contrarians-with-adam-and-…
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Catapult Dominates, Nine Cleans House, More OnlyFans , Nintendo’s Brilliance and the Queen of LinkedIn
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Adam and Adir discuss the Catapult's magnificent run, Nine CEO Gone, the incredible profitability of OnlyFans and Craigslist, Adir dives deep into Nintendo's history and future following plus the guys get the lowdown on LinkedIn from social media superstar, Lisa Teh live in the studio. Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin…
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AI Is Moving Fast. We Need Laws that Will Too.
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AI is moving fast. And as companies race to rollout newer, more capable models–with little regard for safety–the downstream risks of those models become harder and harder to counter. On this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, CHT’s policy director Casey Mock comes on the show to discuss a new legal framework to incentivize better AI, one t…
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Founder Mode, OnlyFans Extreme Profits, Step One Delivers, Waymo and Cettire’s Wild Week
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The incredible OnlyFans profit machine, the Founder Mode debate, the guys discuss autonomous driving how could be the most impactful technology in two decades, how Step One built one of the highest margin businesses in the world and Cettire’s Big Week Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-contrarians-with-a…
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Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy (rerun)
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[This episode originally aired on August 17, 2023] For all the talk about AI, we rarely hear about how it will change our relationships. As we swipe to find love and consult chatbot therapists, acclaimed psychotherapist and relationship expert Esther Perel warns that there’s another harmful “AI” on the rise — Artificial Intimacy — and how it is dep…
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Guzman y Gomez's Dominates, Accent Struggles, Barnes & Noble’s Fall, superstar Carsales CEO Cameron McIntyre LIVE and should you work for a Start-Up?
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Adam and Adir live from Carsales HQ discuss the rise and rise of Guzman y Gomez, Amazon's destruction of Barnes and Noble, chat to the incredible CarSales CEO Cameron McIntyre and answer listener questions Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-contrarians-with-adam-and-adir-podcast Subscribe on YouTube for …
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Breville’s $5b Bonanza, Seek Struggles Without Visionary Founders while REA Dominates, Crimson Rises, Rich Founders and is Milkrun the Best Customer Experience in Australia?
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The guys dissect the incredible rise and rise of Breville, dig deep into Seek’s woes after the departure of their brilliant founders and the remarkable business modal of Realestate.com, the bizarre Crimson Education business hits a billion and who are the world’s most successful founders Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linked…
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Tech's Big Money Campaign is Getting Pushback with Margaret O'Mara and Brody Mullins
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Today, the tech industry is the second-biggest lobbying power in Washington, DC, but that wasn’t true as recently as ten years ago. How did we get to this moment? And where could we be going next? On this episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan and Daniel sit down with historian Margaret O’Mara and journalist Brody Mullins to discuss how Silic…
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JB Hi Fi and Temple Soar, Scooters Banned, the guys speak to the superstar founder of Eight Sleep and is Work from Home Dead?
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Adam and Adir chat to the incredible Matteo Franceschetti founder of 8Sleep who is saving sleep and marriages. The guys also discuss the strange share market reaction to JB HiFi and Temple & Webster’s earnings, Scooters getting Banned and the impending death of working from home. Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/c…
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The World’s Best Negotiator joins The Contrarians, Google a Monopolist and Alan Joyce gets Stripped
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Adam and Adir are joined LIVE by the world’s best negotiation expert and Nobel Prize collaborator, Vicki Medvec. Plus, Google has been found to have engaged in illegal practises to maintain its search engine monopoly and the guys chat about the Qantas board stripping Alan Joyce of a $9 million bonus Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https:…
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This Moment in AI: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
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It’s been a year and half since Tristan and Aza laid out their vision and concerns for the future of artificial intelligence in The AI Dilemma. In this Spotlight episode, the guys discuss what’s happened since then–as funding, research, and public interest in AI has exploded–and where we could be headed next. Plus, some major updates on social medi…
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Canva’s Bets Big on AI, Rex Crash Lands, Atlassian Slumps, the Business Behind the Olympics and Adir’s Hot New Rig
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Adam & Adir chat about Canva’s huge bet on Leonardo.ai, the unsurprising collapse of Rex, Atlassian’s share price slump and how it can recover and the much anticipated latest edition of Adir’s Book Club Thanks for listening! Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-contrarians-with-adam-and-adir-podcast Subscribe on YouTube for all…
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Essilor Luxottica's Glorious Monopoly, Stensholt Live From Paris, Dream Team Inflation, Apple and Google’s Flex their Market Power
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Adam & Adir discuss how Essilor Luxottica built the world’s best monopoly, Inflation in Sports Star Salaries, chat to Rich List Star Correspondent John Stensholt and the incredible power of Apple and Google
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Microsoft Takes on Canva, July and Oroton’s colab and is Flippa the World’s Coolest Marketplace
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The guys chat about Microsoft launching its Canva Killer, Smiggle’s customer service woes, the fascinating collaboration between giant July and Oroton and Flippa’s superstar CEO Blake Hutchison discussed how Flippa’s marketplaces dominates the business of selling businesses.
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Decoding Our DNA: How AI Supercharges Medical Breakthroughs and Biological Threats with Kevin Esvelt
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AI has been a powerful accelerant for biological research, rapidly opening up new frontiers in medicine and public health. But that progress can also make it easier for bad actors to manufacture new biological threats. In this episode, Tristan and Daniel sit down with biologist Kevin Esvelt to discuss why AI has been such a boon for biologists and …
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Have the Good Guys Gone Bad, Nike Gets Hammered, Hutchie Beats the Doubters and is this the most Dilutive Capital Raise Ever?
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Adam and Adir discuss the ACCC's action against The Good Guys, Nike's Worst Day Ever and are CEO John Donohue's Days Numbered, is Sendle's Capital Raise the most Dilutive Ever, Craig Hutchison's massive win as Sports Entertainment Group sells the Wildcats and the latest chapter in Adir's Bookclub
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The best Australian CEO you’ve never heard of, British Airways, Delta Airlines Triumphs and why Grit is the key to Raising Money
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The guys chat about MGI and their brilliant CEO, the transformation at Delta Airlines, the mediocrity of BA and Adam’s tough Maldives trip
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How to Think About AI Consciousness With Anil Seth
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Will AI ever start to think by itself? If it did, how would we know, and what would it mean? In this episode, Dr. Anil Seth and Aza discuss the science, ethics, and incentives of artificial consciousness. Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and the author of Being You: A New Science of Conscious…
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Cettire's Woes, Adore Beauty gets Acquisitive, Adir gets it right on Inflation and is Centreparc the world's Best Tourism Asset?
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The guys discuss the challenges facing polarising eCommerce stock Cettire, Adir deep dives into Adore Beauty's acquisition announcement, inflation continues to reap havoc and why the RBA was dead wrong to keep rates too low for too long, the best ways to book and find good travel deals and the remarkable Centreparc business.…
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Guzman Pops, The Importance of Loyalty, Adam’s Celeb Encounter, Prezee’s Challenges and the Bizarre World of Gift Cards and the Incredible Bellabox Story
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The guys discuss the huge Guzman y Gomez IPO, why a loyalty scheme is so important to business, Prezee’s mounting losses and world of gift cards, the amazing business that rose from the ashes of Bellabox and Adam encounters Hollywood royalty. Join The Contrarians Army group on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-contrarians-with-adam-and…
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Why Are Migrants Becoming AI Test Subjects? With Petra Molnar
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Climate change, political instability, hunger. These are just some of the forces behind an unprecedented refugee crisis that’s expected to include over a billion people by 2050. In response to this growing crisis, wealthy governments like the US and the EU are employing novel AI and surveillance technologies to slow the influx of migrants at their …
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Our First Live Show! TripaDeal Cashes In and the Magic of Ben Gray, what is EBITDA, Adrian Giles Triple Success and The Reject Shop
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The Contrarians in front of a live audience at Fortress Melbourne discuss Qantas’ acquisition of TripADeal and Ben Gray PE Genius, Adrian Giles incredible Hitwise exit and building Fortress and the guys look deep into The Reject Shop.
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Elon's Pay, Turmoil at Nine, Dodgy Taxis, Streamers Unite and How to Ask for a Payrise
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The guys chat about Elon's potential $46b payday, Costello goes at Nine, streamers unite to stop churn and what's the best way to ask for a pay rise?
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Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn
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This week, a group of current and former employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind penned an open letter accusing the industry’s leading companies of prioritizing profits over safety. This comes after a spate of high profile departures from OpenAI, including co-founder Ilya Sutskever and senior researcher Jan Leike, as well as reports that OpenAI h…
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Catapult hits US $100m, Guzman IPO, Canva's Rap and Salesforce's Crash
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The guys chat about Catapult hitting the US$100 million revenue milestone, go deep into the IPO prospects of Guzman y Gomez, fawn of Canva's cringey rap, discuss the struggles facing Salesforce and Adir gets into ice cream. 00:00 - Adir's 'Rollercoaster' Week 11:45 - Adir Watched Free-to-Air TV 18:15 - Catapult Sports 32:50 - Meta and Shopify 41:22…
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Will the AI Bubble Burst, Warby Parker’s Struggles, Why Start-Up Valuations Don’t Matter, Greed isn’t Good and How do you Choose Where to Work?
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The guys go deep into AI, does Warby Parker’s DTC model stack up, why founders shouldn’t obsess over their valuation, the death of Ivan Boesky the original Greed is Good Guy and when should you leave a corporate job for a startup?
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War is a Laboratory for AI with Paul Scharre
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Right now, militaries around the globe are investing heavily in the use of AI weapons and drones. From Ukraine to Gaza, weapons systems with increasing levels of autonomy are being used to kill people and destroy infrastructure and the development of fully autonomous weapons shows little signs of slowing down. What does this mean for the future of …
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Should Start-Ups Give Employees Equity, Netflix the last of the Water Coolers, K-Mart's Success and Reece Witherspoon's Business Genius
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The guys go deep into why they think start-ups should give employees equity and the different ways to do it, Netflix's incredible run and the brilliance of Baby Reindeer, is K-Mart Australia's best ever retailer and Reece Witherspoon's incredible business success.
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