Best Leadership Book

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Evans, The Road to Character by David Brooks

Chris Hitchen, Founder & Managing Partner, Inventures

Startup Must-Read

Squiz, Pivot, and Grammar Girl

Melissa Widner, CEO, Lighter Capital

App

Slack

David Walsh, Founder & CEO, CIM

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

Social Media's Impact on Popular Opinion

Olympia Yarger, Founder & CEO, GoTerra

Best Leadership Book

• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Bob Iger
• Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: How Jack Welch is Making General Electric the World's Most Competitive Company by Noel M. Tichy & Stratford Sherman
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

David Shein, Partner, Our Innovation Fund

Startup Must-Read

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Kristo Käärmann, Co-founder & CEO, TransferWise

App

Asana
Tandem

Sarah Nolet, Founder, Agthentic & Tenacious Ventures

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

N/A

Stephen Thompson, Partner, Brandon Capital Partners

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

The Value & Power of Skepticism

Vuki Vujasinovic, Founder & CEO, Sling & Stone

Startup Must-Read

The Portal with host Eric Weinstein

Sam Chandler, Founder & CEO, Nitro

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Goes through phases of all different kinds of CEOs. Some current favourites: Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Tobias Lütke (Shopify)

Fred Schebesta, Co-founder, Finder

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

36 Real-life Investor Stories

Dan Phillips, Executive Director, Macquarie Capital

Best Leadership Book

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

Jeremy Liew, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Gadget

Oculus Quest

Michael Pryor, Co-founder and current Head of Trello at Atlassian, Trello, Atlassian

App

Trello
Nem Watch

Nick Carter, Senior Vice President - Energy Technology & Solutions, Macquarie Group

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Alan Noble

Sally-Ann Williams, CEO, Cicada Innovations

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

I would love to do it about surfing, the truth is it would be about unlocking corporates with potential. How in a new world and ways of working, we can find new ways of working with talented people in corporations and help them find a sense of purpose.

Toby Norton-Smith, Managing Director , X15

Best Leadership Book

"The Hard Things About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz
"Reboot: Probably More Than You Ever Wanted to Know about Starting a Global Business" by Jodie Fox

Jodie Fox, Co-founder, Shoes of Prey

Startup Must-Read

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Hannah Field, Principal , Tempus

Fundraising Ted Talk

Katherine McConnell

App

Seabreeze

Rick Baker, Co-founder, Blackbird Ventures

Fundraising Ted Talk

Google News

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

App

Keep, Nike, Evernote

Lucy Liu, President and Co-founder, Airwallex

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Shantanu Narayen, Adobe

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

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

Need for Aus to embrace innovation

Paul Bassat, Co-Founder, Square Peg Capital

Best Leadership Book

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Cal Henderson, Co-founder & CTO, Slack

Startup Must-Read

OTPBD & SEN breakfast podcast

Damien Mahoney, Co-founder & CEO, Stackla

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

The Thucydides Trap
Unconscious bias & decision making

Matt Clunies-Ross & Tim Heasley

Startup Must-Read

N/A

Paul Smith, Technology Editor, AFR

Fundraising Ted Talk

The Economist

Andreas Ehn, Partner, Approach

App

Deputy (of course)
Gmail

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

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

N/A

Steve Baxter