The Contrarians with Adam and Adir

Adam and Adir discuss Zoox, Waymo, autonomous cars, Xero’s strange Vegas advertising, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Victoria’s work-from-home laws, Delta One, airline lounges, Jetstar’s carry-on bag crackdown, Ryanair, Canva’s slowing growth, AI design tools, Claude, OpenAI, Figma, Atlassian’s profit pivot and the future of Australia’s biggest tech companies.
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Adam and Adir discuss Canva’s slowing growth, its $60 billion valuation, Figma, Meta, AI design tools, OpenAI, Anthropic, the pressure on Australia’s biggest private tech company, eBay’s corporate terrorism scandal, the Steiners, Devin Wenig, CEO accountability, the $55 million settlement and why corporate consequences rarely reach the top.
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Adam and Adir discuss Ben Carroll replacing Jacinta Allan, Victoria’s work-from-home laws, credit card fees, AI chatbots, bad customer experience, the “logo CEO” problem, Qantas, Alan Joyce, self-managed super property changes, Gen Z drinking habits, OSW and the battery boom, Anthony Fauci, COVID lockdowns, Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI fund blow-up, Anthropic, Nvidia and the AI bubble.
01:07 - Victoria's Leadership Change
06:52 - Credit Cards
13:20 - AI Customer Service
18:26 - Logo Changes and Rebrands
27:08 - Alan Joyce
41:08. - Property Rules
51:59 - OSW
1:03:22 - Fauci, COVID and the Pandemic Reckoning
1:16:30 - Leo Lats, AI Leverage and Bubble Behaviour

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Adam and Adir discuss Tesla’s profit collapse, Elon Musk’s valuation premium, robotaxis, self-driving, BYD, SpaceX, Starlink, Richard White, Immutable, blockchain gaming, NFTs, crypto tokens, Australia’s unicorn bubble and the $3.5 billion valuation that never made sense.
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Adam and Adir discuss the Labor Party conference, Ed Husic, Jacinta Allan’s political problems, Victoria’s unemployment rate, a 1998 celebrity earnings quiz, Etched and the AI chip race, Nvidia, OpenAI, KPMG’s Lendlease audit scandal, Waymo vs Uber, Revolut, bank fees, Jim Chalmers’ housing policy and Australia’s property risk.
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2:06 - Ed Husic and the Gaza Debate
8:46 - Jacinta Allen and Victorian Labor
13:45 - Work From Home Laws
19:19 - Highest Earning Celebrities of 1998
35:33 - Nvidia's Margin Problem
57:11 - KPMG
1:00:36 - Waymo
1:09:53 - Mid Roll
1:10:17 - Revolut
1:17:53 - First Home Buyers
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