Jason Pellegrino

@British_Airways I am Platinum OW. On BA2285 on Sunday my checked bag wasn’t loaded due to overcrowding. The issue was reported at the airport and tagged online, but there’s been no update to location in 72hrs. Emails receive useless auto responses. Please update me on bag!

@markc Revolut so much better than any option I’ve used…

@scottfarkas @sunitagloster @JEChalmers I see a huge role for Unions in helping their member bases at scale. Skills, or lack there of, are the existential threats to job security in the years ahead

@scottfarkas @sunitagloster @JEChalmers Couldn’t agree more. We can’t rely on new entrants into the jobs market alone, we need to also provide pathways for retraining, or the social implications will be enormous. Huge role for all levels of education, especially TAFE and industry training pathways

Heading to the @JEChalmers Jobs Summit this week. Tech has the jobs of the future - we need more grads, migrants, women, regional Aussies. AU tech leaders, any other solutions you want to see discussed?

@PaulBassat Supply side solutions very important, but it’s easy to neglect the importance of removing friction costs to create a more efficient market. Annual new supply is only 2% of total dwellings, so increasing velocity of existing stock turnover is critical, but also politically complex

If you are a politician the only thing you hate more than housing being unaffordable is housing being affordable. High cost of housing in Australia is a national scandal and demand side “solutions” are usually a con. All parties and all levels of Govt in Australia are complicit.

@tomfgoodwin Mmm… not sure this has actually deteriorated, or is it that consumer expectations of what good looks like has been raised through their online experiences?

Amazed how hard it is to buy a lot of things in the real world these days. Almost no reliable way to know what inventory stores even sell, let alone have in stock.

@ProfByron @v_praveen Patagonia should have a set of measurable objectives under their vision that outline how they will “save the planet” and how they measure success. There should be no objectives “, or decisions throughout the organisation that misalign with saving the planet.

@ProfByron @v_praveen I think that’s confusing Visons and Goals/Objectives. Agree that Goals/Onjectives need to be clearly measurable. The role of a Vision is to set the field of play and provide a guide for distributed decision making. For example, JFKs statement is a goal/objective, not a vision.

A well-written vision is one that helps you imagine the ideal picture of 'where could we be,' balancing aspiration (stretch) and reality (achievement); it's not a positioning statement or the how via Graham Robertson

@nikiscevak Ideas based on (2) alone is where I see a lot of business plans and I agree with you the value is questionable. (2) alone is not enough and is the easiest to achieve (smallest moat). (1) Is the most valuable as the most difficult to achieve or replicate, but alone is not enough.

@nikiscevak 1. Yep. Privacy paradox 2. Data itself not valuable. Data businesses can generate value by delivering at least 2 of 3 capabilities (1) own the platform where data is captured/transacted (2) capture or aggregate unique data (3) productise data through unique AI/Analytics talent

Two sad truths: - People don't care about privacy (despite saying they care about privacy) - Data is not valuable (and any startup emphasising data as valuable is in the last chance desperation phase)

This. “Character matters....”

@benthompson Begs the question...... who is going to be founded next year and be sued in 2043? 😂

1975: Microsoft founded ~22 years later~ 1997: US v Microsoft filed ———————————- 1998: Google founded ~22 years later~ 2020: US v Google filed *************************** Apparently being sued for antitrust is like graduating from college for tech companies.

@nikesharora +1 to this advice (also saw Google adapt over a decade, and now a public company CEO in Australia). My only reservation is quarterly cadence increases the risk of comms driving strategy, rather than strategy driving comms. US/JP the only major markets still reporting quarterly.

As a public company CEO, only one piece of advice to IPO aspirants. Be ready to deliver quarterly cadence, lumpy outcomes will make it a bumpy ride. I saw Google from IPOQ1, from wanting to be different, even G adapted to quarters.

@bgurley This 👆. Those claiming absolute certainty in these times are mixing a large dose of hubris with sprinkle of hindsight masquerading as foresight.

Complex systems are remarkably hard to measure, monitor, understand, etc. If Sweden holds (which we don't know enough yet to call), locking-down hard may have costs lives (and livelihood simultaneously). The people you should ignore are the ones with absolute certainty.

@hughewilliams Agree. Plus the determination, resilience and adaptability required to land each leap rises steeply. It’s rarely a straight line!

Came across this and I really love it. So true for anyone working on digital businessess, particularly marketplaces. Quantity ≠ Quality, Volume ≠ Success, especially when it comes to driving long term enduring value.

This!

@markc Less painful than that. Hate those zoom calls! 8)

Your brand is just a lagging indicator of who you are.

Imagine being one of the pricks in WW2 London that refused to turn your lights out at night, in order to stop planes bombing your house, because you didn’t want to be told what to do by the Government. #MaskUpMelbourne