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  Has grocery delivery gone bananas?

  Convenience is king! Right now, you can open your phone, and get everything you want - transport, shopping, food, and content - whenever you want it! And now, we’re seeing this trend move to our grocery shopping. Over the last couple of years there’s been an absolute explosion in the number of instant, on-demand grocery delivery companies. You might have used one here in Australia - UberEats, MilkRun, or Voly - and along with this surge in consumer adoption, there’s been equal interest from investors. Today Bryce and Sascha talk about our current obsession with convenience culture, and how solving the last mile problem is the key to unlocking this profitability...

  26 April

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  Just billionaire things: Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter

  Whether you consider Elon an eccentric, and unreliable leader, or an unrelenting champion of free speech, he’s achieved an extraordinary amount. He’s an entrepreneur, investor, and is currently the world’s richest man. He's busy too - he's the founder, and CEO of SpaceX; & Tesla, founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. So when we read that he’d made an offer to buy Twitter - the social media company where he’s amassed 83 million followers - we had to talk about it. Today Sascha and Alec answer the question - why does Elon Musk want to buy Twitter?

  23 April

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  Is An Oscars campaign a good investment?

  It's Oscars season! Sascha and Darcy explore one of the worst kept secrets in show business - the campaign for an Academy Award. While they are technically not allowed, a lot of the studios launch them, and back their team and artists in a big way - with huge money. The investments are estimated to be up to $15 million for each film nominee.

  21 April

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  Will I ride in a self-driving car this year?

  Today we’re talking about what promises to be one of the most revolutionary technologies of our lifetime... self-driving cars. We’ve all imagined it, and seen it in movies. A car that drives itself. Enter your destination, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. No more traffic accidents, no more drunk drivers, no more searching for a parking spot… It sounds incredible. Today Alec and Sascha explore how possible that is - and go through some of the recent updates to this new technology.

  21 April

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  How is AI changing the drug development process?

  We hear a lot about artificial intelligence, but as non-scientists, we're the first to admit we don't really understand how it works. But coming out of COVID, one of the most remarkable things about the past two years was the speed at which we developed drugs and vaccines. Many in the field are saying that the pandemic was the ultimate test of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the technology passed with flying colours. Today Sascha and Alec look at how artificial intelligence is changing the drug development process and ask themselves - what could the future could look like?

  21 April

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  Is plant-based meat just a fad?

  In 2019, global consultancy AT Kearney predicted that the global market for meat substitutes would be worth $450 billion by 2040. And at the same time, a huge influx of deals were made between the market leaders Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. Chains like Burger King, Starbucks, McDonalds, PepsiCo, KFC, Subway, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. But the past six months we’ve seen a lot of these deals be quietly exited and it got our team thinking… is this the end of plant-based meat? Is it going the way of other food fads?

  21 April

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  Will we ever see another profitable Olympics?

  Brisbane, Australia’s third largest city, was announced it was selected to host the 2032 Olympics. And when it happens, the eyes of the world will turn to Australia. No small amount of eyeballs either - when Tokyo hosted, the Olympics reached more than 3 billion viewers. Yet, despite all the attention… the Olympics is a terrible business proposition. A study from Oxford found that since 1960, every Olympics has run over budget, by an average of 172%. Today Sascha and Darcy ask - exactly how bad a financial decision is hosting the Olympics?

  21 April