John Stensholt
Business journalist at The Australian
John Stensholt is a business journalist at The Australian and editor of its annual Richest 250 list, based in Melbourne. He spent almost 19 years at Fairfax Media, including as Rich List editor at the Australian Financial Review, before moving to News Corp, and has also written for the Wall Street Journal. He has won multiple Citi Journalism awards and been named Business Journalist of the Year three times at the News Awards. In 2026 he co-authored Tech Bros with Perry Williams, an investigation into Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, and discussed it on In The Blink Of AI.
Career
- Now Business journalist · The Australian
- 1999–2018 Rich List Editor / business journalist · The Australian Financial Review / BRW
Sources: mumbrella.com.au
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of Inside Atlassian and the The $100m House Next Door you want.
- 0:00 Cold open
- 0:47 This week's AI headline: an OpenAI agent inside Medicare
- 2:55 Meet John Stensholt and Perry Williams, authors of Tech Bros
- 5:05 The farewell dinner Mike Cannon-Brookes skipped
- 9:51 Why Mike and Scott wouldn't talk to the authors
- 11:28 Point Piper: the $71M house next to the $100M house
- 16:17 Private school vs public school: did class play a part?
- 19:33 How two journalists split and wrote one book
- 22:02 Atlassian's share price rollercoaster
- 23:57 Can Atlassian navigate AI and become a 2.0?
Connections
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