Australian lawyer who co-founded the job site Seek in 1997 and ran it as co-CEO with his brother until 2011; an AFL commissioner and a director of Wesfarmers.
Square Peg Capital
SEEK
Wesfarmers
3 books they recommend · 7 appearances
Michael Lewis's account of the Kahneman-Tversky collaboration works as intellectual biography and as a second path through the research for readers who find academic writing slow. The friendship and its eventual fracture clarifies how two very different minds produced work that neither could have done alone.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai, Ray Dalio and 5 others
Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Charles de Vaulx and 31 others
How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 37 others
| #187 Paul Bassat Unplugged: Migrant parents, SEEK’s Breakthrough, Building Square Peg, and Driving Community Impact through AFL and 'Amplify' | The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal | 2024-12-22 |
| Visionary Investor | Paul Bassat | Business & Purpose | REAL STUFF with Hunter Johnson | 2023-07-27 |
| #130 Paul Bassat: Family grounding, Realities of creating success at Seek + Square Peg Capital, Building a legacy & Australia's future! | The High Flyers Podcast with Vidit Agarwal | 2023-05-16 |
| Ep 61: Talking tech with the founder of SEEK and Square Peg Capital – Paul Bassat | Between Meetings with Matt Heine | 2021-11-19 |
| Ep 81: Paul Bassat - Seeking new opportunities | Inside the Rope with David Clark | 2020-12-07 |
| Ep69 - Paul Bassat, Square Peg Capital | Open the Pod Bay Doors | 2019-09-05 |
| VC view: Defensibility during the rise of AI-native companies | Square Peg on The Airwallex Podcast | Airwallex |
| Paul Bassat's biggest ever bet isn't a start-up Paywall | The Australian Financial Review | 2024 |
| Paul Bassat's journey from start-up whizz to venture capitalist Paywall | The Australian Financial Review | 2015 |