Best Leadership Book

Switch by Chip and Dan Heath

Sally-Ann Williams, CEO, Cicada Innovations

Startup Must-Read

I like my history so “In our time” Melvyn Bragg, a nice disconnect from everything else. At the other end of the spectrum and a nice way to try and stay young NPR’s “All songs considered”, its a good way to stay up to date.

Toby Norton-Smith, Managing Director , X15

Fundraising Ted Talk

The Business of Fashion
The Skimm

Jodie Fox, Co-founder, Shoes of Prey

Gadget

Sonos

Hannah Field, Principal , Tempus

App

Katherine McConnell

TechTalk - if you could do a TedTalk on anything what would it be on?

The power of growing ambition and articulating your vision

Rick Baker, Co-founder, Blackbird Ventures

App

Photos, Chrome & Spotify

Anil Sabharwal, Vice President, Chrome, Comms and Photos + Australia Site Lead, Google

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Grant: Jack Ma
Andrea: Coco Chanel
Wendell: Satya Nadella

Grant McCarthy, Andrea Kowalski & Wendell Keuneman, Managing and General Partners, Tidal Venture

TechTalk - if you could do a TedTalk on anything what would it be on?

Work-life integration

Lucy Liu, President and Co-founder, Airwallex

Best Leadership Book

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn, Red Notice by Bill Browder and The Last Kingdom Series by Bernard Cornwell

Dylan Lawrence, General Manager (Investment), New Zealand Trade & Enterprises (NZTE)

Startup Must-Read

'How I Built This' with Guy Raz
'Masters of Scale' by Reid Hoffman

Paul Bassat, Co-Founder, Square Peg Capital

Fundraising Ted Talk

BBC NEWS

Cal Henderson, Co-founder & CTO, Slack

Gadget

Iphone

Damien Mahoney, Co-founder & CEO, Stackla

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

My Father

Darren Miller, CEO, ARENA

Startup Must-Read

China Startup Pulse (Chinese)
Napoleon: The Man and the Myths - BBC

Matt Clunies-Ross & Tim Heasley

Gadget

Trent (Transcription app)

Paul Smith, Technology Editor, AFR

App

Swarm App

Andreas Ehn, Partner, Approach

TechTalk - if you could do a TedTalk on anything what would it be on?

Being selfless – owning selflessness

Ashik Ahmed, CEO, CTO & co-founder, Deputy

Best Leadership Book

In the entrepreneurial space: Hard thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz;
In the enterprise space: Good to Great, by Jim Collins; &
In the small Business space: The E-Myth, Michael Gerber

Steve Baxter