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How Sam Kennard built his family’s storage business into a $4.5 billion empire

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Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes announcing the $937 million acquisition of The Browser Company in a video posted on September 4, 2025. Photo by Atlassian/YouTube.

‘Nary a blip’: Mike Cannon-Brookes says Atlassian is taming AI costs

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 24

Why you don’t want to be the smartest person in the room

AI will replace Australian jobs. But it doesn’t have to be a disaster

Best Under A Billion 2026

Best Under A Billion 2026: Australia

Life

Cadbury’s gold ‘Conundrum’ egg sells for record $235,000 at auction

How ‘Ted Lasso’ put women’s sports at the centre of Season 4

George Russell.

How F1 driver George Russell unwinds on his new yacht in Capri

Embark upon your own Aegean adventure at Four Seasons Mykonos

Embark upon your own Odyssey adventure at Four Seasons Mykonos

Aboard the $250 million superyacht ‘Amadea’ with the world’s youngest real estate billionaire

Winter red wine

Five intriguing red wines to drink this winter (and beyond)

Billionaires

Atlassian defies ‘SaaSpocalypse’ fears, jumps 35% after strong earnings

Palantir CEO Alex Karp surges 67 places in Forbes Billionaire ranks as stock skyrockets 30%

Zuckerberg’s fortune drops $18 billion as Wall Street sours on Meta’s AI spending

Atlassian warns more AI use will not magically lift productivity

Could more Epstein files be released soon? Redacted docs will be reviewed by a US judge this week

Inside the Arnault family succession fight Bernard Arnault says doesn’t exist

Entrepreneurs

Wendy McCarthy’s quiet campaign to fund next-gen rebel women

Bondi to Baroque: Camilla Franks’ palatial, but distilled, evolution

Samsara Eco kicks off $100m raise to recycle critical minerals

IREN co-founders score $1.14 billion pay packet amid AI bonanza

Amal Clooney on empowering female entrepreneurs and CWI’s global impact

Blackbird’s $200m punt on this AI startup is its biggest investment ever

Innovation

Indigenous edtech platform championed at TechDiversity 2026 Awards

OpenAI taps new lobbying firm as Albanese’s AI plan takes shape

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max model—China’s latest AI challenger to OpenAI and Anthropic

I help elite performers optimise their health. Here’s the truth about biohacking

The spark behind the charge: how Tim Washington built Australia’s EV infrastructure giant

The drug behind Ozempic and Wegovy pills may also treat alcohol use disorder

BrandVoice

The courage to lead differently: Insights from the upcoming Women Unlimited summit

How Nicole Eckels built a beloved fragrance empire

About time: Inside Richard Mille’s feminine revolution

Ideas to Save the Planet

Inside the mission to restore Namibia’s lost migration

Titouan Bernicot is racing to outpace the decline of the world’s coral reefs

Sylvia Earle has seen the ocean collapse. Here’s what still gives her hope

Investing

IMAX stock reaches all-time high as CEO says ‘The Odyssey’ demand ‘continues to defy gravity’

Best Under A Billion 2026

Best Under A Billion 2026

Should residential investors start buying commercial property?

US Dow Jones posts its worst day of the year after Federal Reserve holds interest rates

Rocket Lab alum raises $10.5m to build ‘anti-gravity chamber’ for space manufacturing

Apple briefly surpasses $5 trillion market value—joining Nvidia

Leadership

The most underrated leadership skill—emotional regulation

FIFA’s Infantino scrambles to save job after World Cup equity plan backfires

Cory Doctorow

How Australia can become a superpower of ‘disenshittification’

Why executive presence isn’t about looking the part

CEOs have a productivity problem. Asking people to work harder won’t fix it

Attention spans are shrinking. Our ability to focus will be the new competitive advantage