Innovation

Meet Matt Pearson, a man who has a dream to make flying cars a reality for all of us – but what better place to trial the concept than a racetrack in the sky. His theory: competition drives progress.

Together, we can make a louder noise and bring more people on the journey. The ecosystem we have created is open and easy. A small business can see what is relevant to them for their industry and size to help run the business so it looks after itself from an operational perspective and they can focus on the customer.

If software and applications are the currency of the new economy, development teams are the market makers. Developers have gone from being a curiosity when I began my career to becoming a boardroom priority, especially as the pandemic and rapid digitisation that accompanied it has ratcheted up the urgency for business leaders.

The former CEO of Google and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, are spending $1 billion to support talented young people around the world.

They wrapped a Sydney tram in a giant Dovetail recruitment ad. They’re now up to 90 staff, with nine of them coming on board in the new San Francisco office. Ayers and Humphrey have retained a third ownership each.

The $108 million raised last financial year is being spent on software development and bringing their newest model, the Zoomo One, into production. The so-called “moped killer” will have a top speed of 45km/h.

Today, virtually all new drug discovery and early-stage drug development happens in small biotech firms, with Big Pharma hungrily waiting for the new drugs to boost their shrinking sales as the patents on their existing drugs inevitably expire.