Alan Jones (the nice one)

Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates A company in Batavia, Illinois is making butter in a way you've never seen before. No animals, no plants, no oils; this butter is made from carbon.

They can make butter from air now. Nothing’s gonna stop me now! www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

French is such a great language. In English, we say “founder”. In French, it’s “fondateur”. Just one more syllable but it sounds so good. To me it sounds like you’re lovingly crafting a dessert, not building a unicorn.

Next, Bluepulse, by founder Ben Keighran, arguably the first mobile-native social messaging app in the world, certainly the first to make it easy for publishers to repurpose their content for mobile.

... a history of the Australian tech startup industry told in logins and passwords? 😆

The oldest login and password in my 1Password repository for an Aussie startup was a login to Zookoda, a blog-to-email service cofounded by Nick McNaughton. Zookoda was acquired by PayPerPost.

Per month:
407 ÷ 12 ≈ 34 passwords/month

Per week:
407 ÷ 52 ≈ 7.8 passwords/week

Per day:
407 ÷ 365 ≈ 1.1 passwords/day

I started using 1Password soon after its release in May 2006. That’s a span of about 19.1 years (from June 2006 to August 2025).

I’ve got 7,770 passwords and I only delete superceded passwords. So on average:

Per year:
7,770 ÷ 19.1 ≈ 407 passwords/year

Wow.

Accelerate 2025 — Catalysr Startup Accelerator for Migrants & Refugees

The latest intake for the Catalysr - Accelerator for Migrants & Refugees is now accepting applications.

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Australia hosts military drills with US and other nations, likely to draw Chinese surveillance Australia is hosting its largest-ever military drills, Exercise Talisman Sabre, involving over 35,000 personnel from 19 nations.

There’s a big multinational war game going on up north at the moment, it’s probably everybody’s fighters flying up for that. apnews.com/article/aust...

Yeah look sorry Renata but it’s not a 1 bedroom apartment when it doesn’t have a bedroom

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It's time to open up applications for more Australian startup founders to feature on my "Pick My Brain" podcast series. Share your startup story with the audience, including the challenges you're facing, and let's talk it over (thread)...

Jack Dorsey unveils Bitchat, a Bluetooth-only decentralized messaging app Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey unveiled the beta version of Bitchat on Sunday, a messaging app that operates entirely over Bluetooth networks without...

Will the Second American Civil War be between Telegram users and Bitchal users? www.perplexity.ai/page/jack-do...

Startup Basketball Run - July 23 @ 9:15am · Luma Hey Startup Ballers, We're hosting a special session of Australia Startup Basketball in Melbourne with our friends at M8 Ventures and in conjunction with The…

Wed 23 July M8Ventures’ Emily Rich and I will be on the basketball court again as sponsors of the next Startup Basketball Run in Melbourne.

At half-time I’ll have my head shaved to support the Leukemia Foundation lu.ma/execygnu

I'm selling two great tickets to see Billy Strings play at the ICC Sydney Thursday 17th July. You can buy them securely from me on Tixel tixel.com/u/alanj1

Actually I spell it without an underscore.

You put the acid in the lead and you shake it all

Apple needs to make an Apple Watch Ultra for women. The only Ultra size is too big for the typical woman’s wrist. Yet women are well represented in outdoors and extreme sports. Not good enough. Who agrees?

Meanwhile in news that should surprise no one, Australia decided what the planet really needs most right now is to accelerate on its trajectory towards exceeding 2 degrees of global warming

Massive fan of apps that gently remind me which effing Google account of mine I last used to login to the app #justsayin

I’m raising capital to open a Sydney pub that doesn’t have an endless thumping pop soundtrack, just the sounds of people having a drink, a meal and a good conversation. Who’s with me?

(Check notes) oh. Apparently it’s happening every year?

Good thing there’s apparently no urgency to reducing Australia’s emissions or we might have to get used to this happening every few years in NSW…

I think it’s time to revoke China’s developing nation status. In Australia I can’t even complete a phone call while driving up the Pacific Highway.

Life hack: just get old. Turns out old Australians get discounts and free stuff. And now, you don’t even need to be a Boomer to qualify - older Gen Xs like me can get them. Now we just need to find an electorally-popular way to remove them before Millenials qualify

Pick My Brain | Part of the Day One Network Founders learn how to pitch their startup better, with Australia’s best startup pitch coach Alan Jones

Recommend you watch rather than listen to the latest episode of Pick My Brains as we refer to the founder’s deck quite a bit

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US: Trump announces 100% tariff on movies produced abroad – DW – 05/05/2025 President Trump said the US movie industry was "dying" and that the "concerted effort by other nations" to lure American movie makers was a "national security threat." Meanwhile, Trump has touted a ne...

Hope you all really like Westerns, Thanksgiving holiday feel-goods and Chicago crime dramas
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Heavens no! It might endanger the live au pair import industry