Best Leadership Book

Fiction: The Deed of Pac by Elizabeth Moon
Non-fiction: Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz

Sarah Nolet, Founder, Agthentic & Tenacious Ventures

Fundraising Ted Talk

BBC

Stephen Thompson, Partner, Brandon Capital Partners

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Bill Gates

Sam Chandler, Founder & CEO, Nitro

Best Leadership Book

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by James C. Collins

Leigh Jasper, Co-founder & CEO, Aconex

Fundraising Ted Talk

WhatsApp (people send him news, particularly stock traders)

Fred Schebesta, Co-founder, Finder

Gadget

N/A

Dan Phillips, Executive Director, Macquarie Capital

App

Giphy

Jeremy Liew, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Best Leadership Book

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

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

Startup Must-Read

RenewEconomy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/series/podcasts/

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

Fundraising Ted Talk

ABC

Sally-Ann Williams, CEO, Cicada Innovations

App

Todoist
TripIt
Instagram

Jodie Fox, Co-founder, Shoes of Prey

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Bill Gates

Hannah Field, Principal , Tempus

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

Katherine McConnell

Startup Must-Read

(this one!)

Rick Baker, Co-founder, Blackbird Ventures

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

"How I Tried to Get Fired at Google but Got Promoted Instead"

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

Best Leadership Book

Grant: "This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl" by Paul Brannigan
Wendell: "Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It" by Christopher Voss
Andrea: "Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

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

Fundraising Ted Talk

Wall Street Journal. For kiwi news; NZ Herald & NBR.

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

App

Slack & Twitter

Cal Henderson, Co-founder & CTO, Slack

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Mike Cannon Brookes & Scott Farquhar - Atlassian

Damien Mahoney, Co-founder & CEO, Stackla

Best Leadership Book

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

Darren Miller, CEO, ARENA

Gadget

N/A

Matt Clunies-Ross & Tim Heasley

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Atlassian founders, Richard White (Wisetech)

Paul Smith, Technology Editor, AFR

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

Startup Countries

Andreas Ehn, Partner, Approach

Startup Must-Read

Open The Pod Bay Doors!
Andreesen Horowitz
Master of Scale

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

Fundraising Ted Talk

The Australian/The Courier

Steve Baxter

Favourite Tech CEO / FOunder

Elon Musk

Geoff McQueen