Ben Young

Australian organisations are embedding AI into core business processes, customer interactions and operational decision making. AI has become an enterprise dependency and requires organisations to fundamentally rethink their data resilience and privacy strategies. This year, Data Privacy Week took on a different significance.

I was listening to this Jack Altman interviewing Keith Rabois podcast, and he touched on some of the things that make him a good investor and/or board member. Which I liked. Riffing off that, I think of some of the benefits having fellow founders as investors/board members. As a fellow founder, who is active, they are in market. Meaning they can find/intro to live opportunities or see openings in the market as they happen… They (typically) have an active network, and founders know other founders.

Customer scam losses in January were the lowest for any month in five years, showing the impact of new safety features and growing public awareness around the risks. However, scam activity remains high and the bank continues to see customers proceed with payments to scammers even when informed that the transaction they’re about to make could present risk.