All Episodes
The Contrarians with Adam and Adir — 104 episodes
Federal Government Destroys Startups, Negative Gearing Stays for the Rich, is SBF the World’s Best Investor, Droneshield, Hamish Douglass and Marathons
Ask Us Anything: My boss is working from home but we’re in all the office + Dealing with loss and it’s impact on work
Cochlear Crashes, Firmus IPO Drama, Self Driving vs Flying, Batteries Step Up, Uber x Expedia, Ghost Buses and the Experience Economy
Ask Us Anything: Trump’s latest assassination attempt + Are classic trades the most reliable career path?
Heidi Health, Canva, Mecca’s Rise and Rise, NDIS Flesh Wound, CTM Disaster Gets Worse, Temple & Webster CEO Shock and Copilot Fail
Ask Us Anything: AI Effecting Entry Level Jobs + The Value of Personal Brands
Shark Tank Star and VC Steve Baxter, Mythos, Will Quantum Kill Encryption, Pope Double Standards, Data Centres, Glydways and Hermes
Ask Us Anything: Researching when investing in public companies + Was the Prime Minister’s Address Necessary!?
WFH Blow, SpaceX IPO, Droneshield Deckchair Shuffle, GYG Hits Back and CTM Debacle Continues
Ask Us Anything: Finding enough time to do it all + Starting a business in 2026 vs 2006
CostCo, Kathmandu Deep Dive, Albo makes Petrol Crisis Worse, RBA’s Credit Card Surcharge Disgrace, Waymo Love and Victorian Government Gets Something Right
Special Bonus: Carma Deep Dive with special guest, Scott Middleton
Canva’s Profitless Profit, Smiggle Slumps, Catapult Flying, CGT Debacle, the Incredible Benefits of Autonomous Cars, Firmus and Adam Gets Run over by a Golf Buggy
Ask Us Anything: Should fuel price surges mean people work from home? + What does it mean to be Australian?
Rich List, Atlassian Crash, Seek Horrors, Operation Epic Fury, Biennial Disgrace, Councils Behaving Badly and Adir’s Great and Terrible Calls
Ask Us Anything: Are electric trucks the future? + What if the State of Victoria was a company?
Atlassian Sacks Thousands, Koala to IPO, Grace Tame’s Disgrace, Star Directors Get Off, Best AI Platforms and Biggest EV Adopters
Ask Us Anything: The dwindling radio industry + How did the market get GYG so wrong?
Life360 Deep Dive, Dorsey’s Block Shambles, Kyle & Jackie Implode, OpenAI Raise in Doubt, Grand Prix and World’s Most Valuable Sporting Franchises.
Ask Us Anything: Negative experiences in business deals + Would you rather Human or AI phone agents?
Death of a Tyrant, Eucalyptus Riches, Open AI’s Lofty Valuation, Cettire in Tatters, CTM Clinging On and Jacinda Hates NZ
Ask Us Anything: Hiding Failures on LinkedIn? + Milking opportunities where your business succeeds publicly!
Eucalyptus Sale Deep Dive, is Waymo an Uber killer, Winnings’ Winnings, Victoria becomes an official Crime State, Adir Visits Lakemba and special guest business publishing legend, Chris Janz
Ask Us Anything: Is AI changing productivity expectations in business? + Are whole body MRIs getting more popular + Wes Maas investing in AI
Special guest Joe Aston joins, Winter Olympics Sexism, the Rise and Fall of Luke Sayers, Corporate Travel Management and Temple & Webster Crash
Ask Us Anything: Finding balanced views in modern journalism + How AI will impact spreadsheets + Meditation as a tool for success
Saas Crash! AI Collapse. Atlassian Hammered. Xero Obliterated. BTC Decimated. CTM Founder Lives Large. Will Canva Take Down Australian VCs.
Ask Us Anything: Are traditional medical clinics still worth it? + Is Substack undermining traditional media?
$16 billion IREN Deep Dive, OnlyFans For Sale, Escalante's Fall, will Moltbook take over the world, Jamie Pherous Cuts and Runs and Aus Open
Ask Us Anything: Should we change the date of Australia Day? + Mark Carney’s DAVOS Speech + How to effectively manage time?
Netflix Dumped, SaaS Meltdown, Koala Deep Dive, Are Private Schools Worth It, Airlines and Goyder’s Parting Disgrace
Ask Us Anything: How do we prioritise sleep? + Is wearable fitness tech worth it? + Managing a staff member who doesn't gel with your staff
Jellycat Deep Dive, Atlassian Share Price Crash, Kings Counsel Ransom, Writers Festival Monstrosity, SXSW Sydney Dies and Adam’s Passport Bliss
Ask Us Anything: Working through Christmas + Should high school students get jobs?
Costco Deepdive, Health Insurance Pricing, Iran on the Edge of Freedom and Albo's Royal Commission Dark Arts
Ask Us Anything: To Gap Year or Not To Gap Year? + Will We Have AI Movies Soon?
2026 Predictions and What We Got Badly Wrong (and Right) Last Year
Ask Us Anything: Australia's Best & Worst PM? + Worst Ever Travel Experiences
Hot Doc Sale Bonanza, Corporate Travel Management Survives for Now, Albo Kinda cuts Business Class, Why Consumer Businesses Shouldn’t Shut during Christmas and Busiest Airline Routes
Ask Us Anything: Does Everyone Need a Side Hustle? + The Biggest Story of 2025?
Bondi Massacre Hit Albanese, Taylor Swift’s Riches, ASIC’s Netwealth Fail, PuppyGate, Chemist Warehouse, Shayne Elliott’s $13m Cash Grab and Lululemon Deep Dive
Ask Us Anything: Silvagni Case and Suppression Orders + Arnott's $45M Debt Facility
The Age of Entitlement in Full Swing, Corporate Travel Deep Dive, Most Valuable Brands, Law Firm Break Up, Maggie Beer, Interest Rates to the Moon and Waymo Flies
First thoughts of the terror attack at Bondi Beach
Ask Us Anything: The growth of women's sports + Is Melbourne's Metro Tunnel POINTLESS?
Is OpenAI a Goner? Don’t Miss Adir’s AI Deep Dive, Netflix goes Pacman, Bending Spoons goes Old Skool, Social Media Ban, Amex Kills Points and Pollies Behaving Badly
Ask Us Anything: Buying through Ali Express? + Should AirBnB be banned?
Temple & Webster Deep Dive Special Episode
Droneshield Drill Down, Corporate Travel Management Implodes, BOM Laughing Stock, Compaq, Mike's Jet and the Richest New Zealanders
Ask Us Anything: Is This the End of Country Road? + Flight Centre's New Loyalty Program
Nvidia Worries, Xero Disappoints Again, Droneshield Nightmare Gets Worse, Tesla, Defund the ABC and Adir's Awesome Quiz
Ask Us Anything: The TRUTH of Victoria's Crime Wave!? + Should Australia Go Nuclear?
Drone Shield Cut and Run, Menulog Dies, the World’s Greatest Insider Trader, Open AI, Woke Judges and Airport Security Fail
Ask Us Anything: How much money is too much? + Boomers with Wealth + Seaweed Start Up
RBA Blows It (Again), Pet Circle Horror Show, Navan IPO Deep Dive, Richo Gone, Mamdani Takes NYC, Luxury Escapes’ Goes to the Beach and Adir turns Quizmaster
Ask Us Anything: Is the Welcome to Country Overdone? + Should businesses be more responsible with data +
ASX 20 Bubble, Jumbo Deep Dive, Fyxer, Halloween and Jordy from Great Wrap
Ask Us Anything: Should SPP's be COMPULSARY? + Big Companies Paying NO Income Tax + Australia's Dying Music Festival Scene.
Journos WFH Fail, Catapult Goes Large, Atlassian’s Horrendous Buy, Biggest Rocketships, Delta’s Upmarket Win and Adir’s Celebrity Encounter
Ask Us Anything: How Does Adir READ SO MUCH? + Performance Marketing with Fixed Costs?
ChatGPT Jumps the Shark, VC Troubles, Xero Pay Fight, Nike Stores Gone, NRMA Uncovered and Waymo Expands
Ask Us Anything: US H1B VISA Fee in the Tech Industry + Should I Get a Mentor?
AI Boom Keeps Booming, Deep Dive into Australia’s Secret $6b Business, Pokémon Cards, Board Games and Founders Behaving Badly
Ask Us Anything: Should Women Pay LESS Tax!? + Albanese's 5% Home Deposit Scheme
Atlassian Buys Again, EA Games Breaks LBO Record, SCA Seven Governance Mess, Australia's Most Famous Family, Cameo and Catapult Hits the Big Time
Ask Us Anything: Elon Musk the World's Richest Person? + Can we build stuff quicker in Australia?
OpenAI a $500b Ponzi? Canva Breaks Hearts, Latrobe Crunched by ASIC, Stubhub IPO, Adir’s Worst Airline and is Australia the Red Tape Capital of the World?
Ask Us Anything: Did Disney Get Jimmy Kimmel Right? + Optus' Outage Issues + Executive Disfunction
ROKT Soars, Healthengine, Reebok, Vending Machines go Hi Tech, Haigh’s Branding Genius and Mike’s Travel Report
Ask Us Anything: Should people go to uni? + Adir's FAVOURITE PC Games Ever
Oracle Flies and Ellison the World’s Richest Person (Briefly), Amex Devalues, Adir’s BOOKING.fail, ANZ’s Cashback Retreat and Adam’s Bike Stolen
Ask Us Anything: The Next Aussie Unicorn, Mac vs. PC + The GREATEST Movie Soundtracks EVER
Woolworths v Coles, Cettire Nears the Precipice, Australia’s Secret Unicorn Founder, Neurodivergent Founders and Dan’s Brush with Dictators
Ask Us Anything: ACCC's New Merger Mandatory Notification Thresholds, The Most Insightful Things We've Read + Our Social Media Thoughts
CSL and Reece Blame WFH for Woes, Site Minder Deep Dive, Qantas Roars, Nvidia Delivers (for now), Blackbird, Sydney v Melbourne and KPop Demon Hunters
Ask Us Anything: When did the guys take a risk that DIDN'T pay off? + A 20th Team for the AFL!?
CSL Breaks Up, Canva Deep Dive, Xero Gets Whacked, Step One’s Struggles, RBA Fails Again and the World’s Largest Companies
Ask Us Anything: Four Day Work Week? + Do Founder Political Profiles Effect Business Value?
Temple & Webster Breakdown, Overpaid Lawyers, the business of Sushi, Surcharge Debacle Worsens, World’s Worst Health System and Melbourne Hellhole
Ask Us Anything: Is AI Another Bubble + Managing Sleep + Starting a Software Company Without Technical Knowledge
Atlassian Gets Smashed, Behind the Scenes at the Catapult AGM, Public Servants Flying Business Class, Why Price Fixing Never Works, Lorikeet Raises and Droneshield
Ask Us Anything: Anti-Semitism in Business + How to Get Financially Literate + When To Set Up a Board
Victoria Goes Full Stalin, Tesla Pivots, Figma’s Epic IPO, Google Deep Dive, Step One Hammered and Carsales’ Well Earned Victory Lap
Ask Us Anything: Growing Without External Capital + Advice for People Changing Industry
Employment Hero v Seek Cage Fight, Atlassian Burn Book, Southwest, Reg Grundy's Legacy, Why Free Samples are a Genius Move and How are Coin Laundries Still a Thing?
Ask Us Anything: Managing a Personal Equities Portfolio + Price Inflation in Insurance
Guzman Deep Dive, Reserve Bank Smashes Small Business (again), Australian Shareholders Get Shafted, Best Selling Authors and UberEats Fails Again
Ask Us Anything: Customer Acquisition Costs + Lab Grown vs. Mined Diamonds??
RBA Gets it Right (finally), Bumble Trouble, ASX Dual Class Voting Cage Match, Hermes Record, Are Limebikes Too Popular, World’s Biggest Companies, BA Shocker and Adir’s Rules of Capitalism
Ask Us Anything: Equity Mates x Betashares Acquistion + Child Care Issues in Victoria
Droneshield Flies, Di Pilla Crashes, Dominos Debacle, WFH, Tether’s Money Machine and Adir’s LinkedIn Pet Hate
Ask Us Anything: Would the guys go on Shark Tank? + Is Kogan a Lottery Business Now!?
Xero Bets the Business, Woolworths MyDeal Disaster, Moral Hazard on Planes, EV Road Test and Woodfrog
Ask Us Anything: Rich People Problems + The Milgram Experiment + LinkedIn
World’s Best Bahn Mi, Adir Sleeps with Obama, Door Dash’s Curious Acquisition, Catapult ‘s Smart Buy, Amazon Prime Ads a Turn Off, Adairs Deep Dive and Adir’s Injury
Ask Us Anything: Are Young People Just BAD with Money + How We'd Revolutionise Schooling
Virgin IPO, Immutable Questions, YouTube Goes Too Premium, Adir's US Adventures, Israel's Masterstroke and Adam's Cettire Victory Lap
Ask Us Anything: Business & politics + What have we changed our minds on?
David Jones and Qantas Hook Up, Koala Pulls IPO, Mecca, JB Hi Fi’s Golden Run, Get Swift’s Tale of Destruction, Apple’s Woes and Mike’s Switch 2 Review
Ask Us Anything: What really happens in the Qantas lounge + Angel Investing Tips + Where to stash your emergency $1M!
Labubu Mania, Webjet Takeover, Rich List Deep Dive, Eucalyptus Face Off, Waymo and Warby Parker
Ask Us Anything: How does ambition change over time? + Contrarian takes on AI
Joe Aston joins Live to talk Qantas, the L1-Platinum Takeover and James Hardie, Catapult Rockets, Interest Rates, the Power of Great Customer Service and Adir’s McDonald’s Incident
Ask Us Anything: The most important data points for business + Can AI be a financial planner!?