Forward Deployed Engineers Aren't New. So Why Is Big Tech Spending Billions on Them? With Faith Rees | Ep. 18
Between May and July this year, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS and Microsoft all put billions of dollars behind the same idea: engineers who sit inside the customer's business and build alongside the people w...
23 Sep 53min
SCX.ai and the Mission to Build Australia's Sovereign AI With David Keane | Ep. 17
SCX.ai listed a week before this recording, and on the morning of the record the Sydney Morning Herald ran a front page calling AI the most important sovereignty issue for Australians since the Secon...
3 Sep 54min
Telstra Went Dark, Mythos Is Hunting, and Why Technical Debt Should Be a Board-Level KPI | Ep. 16
Episode overview AI adoption is the number one priority for Australian IT leaders, and that is exactly why the unglamorous work of replacing what no longer works keeps sliding down the list. Meanwhile...
28 Juli 32min
The Channel Strategy Most Vendors Get Wrong, With Vic Guerrero | Ep. 15
In February 2026, roughly 285 billion US dollars fell off software valuations in 48 hours, on the theory that AI would gut per-seat SaaS. NinjaOne sells per-seat SaaS and is growing about 70 percent a...
8 Juli 57min
Is AI Creating a Crisis of Purpose in IT? With Luke Clifton | Ep. 14
The IT industry is shedding jobs to cost-cutting, AI restructuring and the usual business cycles, and the man who chairs the Australian Men's Shed Association thinks the real cost, what it does to peo...
16 Juni 45min
Broken Things. Human Reasons | Ep. 13
Twenty years ago, the IT professional's primary qualification was confidence. Nobody had the context to evaluate you. You showed up, tried a reboot, and if it worked, you were a genius. This is the ep...
21 Maj 44min
$10M ARR With 15 People | Jason Serda on How AI Is Rewriting Australia's Startup
Episode overview Australia's startup market just hit an inflection point. $503 million raised across 25 rounds in the first two months of 2026. Twenty five per cent up on the year before. US vent...
28 Apr 51min
The Cloud Left 70% of the World Behind. This Guy's Coming to Fix It. | Ep. 11
The cloud was supposed to connect everyone. It didn't. When the hyperscalers built their massive data centers, they reached about 30% of the world and called it a day. The other 70%? Left behind. A...
1 Apr 45min
