By @MediaweekAUS
Publication Date: 2025-11-16 21:05:00
At SXSW Sydney a conversation between Dan KrigsteinDirector of Growth Distillery, and Sandy CarterChief Operating Officer of Unstoppable Domains, offered one of the clearest snapshots of how quickly the AI age is accelerating – and how unprepared most companies still are.
Carter, a Silicon Valley operator who has steered innovation at Amazon, Microsoft, MSN and now one of Web3’s most influential identity companies, didn’t mince his words. Somewhere between the hype cycles and the endless parade of AI-first ideas, she believes the fundamentals have quietly fallen out of focus.
And this is exactly where companies stumble.
Data, discipline and the illusion that AI is magic
Carter has been working in AI much longer than most.
“I got involved with AI in 2013,” she told Krigstein…