Bruce Buchanan

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Scaling Up: Lessons From The World's Best CEOs and Founders · From The Archive: Art Meets Science - Bruce Buchanan, Rokt CEO and Co-Founder · 8 Oct 2025 podcast

Could we do more?

Yeah, I think there's there's great opportunities to give people up greater opportunity after they've done advanced mathematics or advanced computer science degrees to stay here longer.

I think, you know, if we can more easily get younger.

Talent that's probably not at the the really senior skill visa level now and attract them from different countries, that would be a great influx way for us as well.

I mean I think companies that are paying very high salaries and naturally pretty good at working out who the right talent is to bring in to their company.

And the best thing about software companies and innovating businesses is those people are probably very good for the country.

You know, they're not just good for Rock or Campber or Lassian, they're good for us as a community and us as Australia.

And I think

The more we can do there the better.

I mean, there's lots of challenges in that area.

I mean, we have uh challenges with um Australian policy around innovation is things like IP Australia, you know, some of our tax policies, some of our immigration policies aren't great.

But generally we've got a good combination of things working in our favour in Sydney.

You know, we've got a great climate, a very attractive place to come and and work and live with your family, good education, good health care.

safe, um it's a place people want to be.

And so when we're competing, we're competing with businesses in New York and Silicon Valley and London and all sorts of other great cities.

And Sydney stacks up pretty well as a c offering

Yeah, look, I'm a real believer of the concepts um around lean and there's a there's a bunch of books written on this, like Lean Startup's a great book.

But to me I think if you can prove out a concept in an efficient way, so you can be hungry about the problem you're trying to solve and not overinvest in it early on, you create a very good discipline around checking in regularly

limiting the amount of resources, creating clear alignment, clear expectation and goals.

And you scale things when you get success rather than scaling things when you're trying to still work out what the right answer should be.

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