Unscripted moments
Executives let slip candid views on AI and middle-aged men at Macquarie talkfest.
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Capital Brief’s Hugo Mathers and Brandon How kept score at Macquarie’s annual confessional, where most executives cycled through denial, defence and message management with varying degrees of subtlety.
Still, a few truths slipped through. From Guzman y Gomez admitting its US expansion had underwhelmed, to bosses at WiseTech and NextDC speaking unusually candidly (and fondly) about AI workers that never complain, sleep or ask for pay rises. Amanda Lacaze also had thoughts about middle-aged men.
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