Happy Saturday! We’re back with another round of listener questions.

This week you asked:

🗳️ Is Australia’s ageing population creating a scenario of democratic failure?

🏛️ What does the latest Victorian Liberal Party turmoil say about the party’s internal culture and ability to govern?

✡️ Do Adam and Adir consider themselves practising Jews, culturally Jewish, or somewhere in between?

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Adam and Adir discuss London’s heat wave, Victoria’s crime wave, Labor’s housing mess, the world’s most profitable companies, Nvidia and the AI bubble, remote work, Canva vs Figma, Koala, SkinKandy, The Man Shake and the latest Corporate Travel disaster.

00:00 - London's Heat Wave
06:00 - Victoria's Crime Wave and the Housing Debate
14:00 - The 30 Most Profitable Companies
23:00 - The AI Bubble, Nvidia and the $7 Trillion Question
44:00 - CGT, Capitalism and Labor's Budget Backlash
54:00 - Remote Work, Gen Z and Canva's Office Crackdown
1:05:01 - Koala, SkinKandy and the ASX IPO Problem
1:10:00 - Man Shake
1:20:00 - Corporate Travel's Latest Disaster

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Happy Saturday! We’re answering another batch of your questions this week.

This week you asked:

🧠 How should someone with a strong career but average academic results explain ADHD and employability concerns to a potential employer?

🤝 Should Australia adopt broader employee ownership models to help workers build wealth and support retiring SME owners?

🇦🇺 What is Australia’s greatest invention in terms of global impact or global good?

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Adam and Adir discuss EasyJet and the economics of discount airlines, Telstra’s outage, Twinkies, protein mania, gambling, Norway’s sporting machine, work from home obesity, Nvidia and Fermi’s AI bubble, Bitcoin, TEG, Ticketek and Live Nation.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_LluCl16k

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Adam & Adir examine Bending Spoon's extraordinary rise, its blockbuster IPO, comparisons with Berkshire Hathaway and Constellation Software, the risks created by its aggressive use of leverage, and whether Bending Spoons is an ingenious software conglomerate or an enormously overvalued house of cards.

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Adam and Adir discuss safari business lessons, England vs Argentina, Murderbot Diaries and $0.99 Kindle funnels, Uber One, Lux Plus, Marxism, social democracy, Xero’s CEO share sale, SEN circling ARN, Jackie O, 4DMedical, Pro Medicus comparisons and meme stock valuations.

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00:00 - Adam’s Safari Experience
11:08 - England vs Argentina and Why Playing Defence Kills Winners
15:35 - 99c Kindle Funnel
22:14 - Uber One vs Lux Plus
31:20 - Collective Noun Quiz
36:17 - Marxism & Capitalism
55:10 - Xero’s CEO Share Sale
1:15:38 - SEN & ARN
1:26:04 - 4DMedical

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Adam and Adir discuss luxury hotel inflation, Instagram status games, SpaceX’s valuation drop, Starlink’s powers, Tesla vs BYD, Australia’s best-selling cars, Atlassian’s Loom problem, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Adam’s safari life.

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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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