Perry Williams
Chief Business Correspondent at The Australian
Perry Williams is Chief Business Correspondent at The Australian, covering the country's biggest companies and corporate deals. He previously covered energy and resources for the paper, and has held reporting roles at Bloomberg, covering Asia energy markets, and at The Australian Financial Review as resources editor. With John Stensholt, he co-wrote Tech Bros, tracing how Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar built Atlassian from a Glebe share house into one of Australia's biggest technology companies. On In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy, he discussed the inside story of Atlassian and Australia's tech wealth. He holds a journalism diploma from Massey University, New Zealand.
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?
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