25 Years of Connecting Dots: How JT Built from the Dot-Com Bust to AI

JT grew up in tiny Tasmanian towns, bounced through gap years in Europe and Canada, and spent 25 years building Mitchell Lake, one of Australia's first internet-focused executive search firms, surviving the dot-com bust and every hype cycle since. Now living in Spain, he's building socialmedium.ai, an agentic matchmaking platform that connects professionals without public profiles, advertising, or data exposure. We got into his "find the bar" framework for connection in new places, why he left Singapore because it was "too safe" for his daughter, and why his advice for everyone right now is dead simple: don't stop at the chat, build something.Connect with JT here:https://www.socialmedium.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/digitalventures/