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Decoding Startup Success: A comprehensive two-year study conducted in partnership with the University of Oxford, University of Melbourne, UTS, and UNSW Sydney. This research delved into data from over 21,000 global startups, identifying key success factors, including the unique personalities and synergistic combinations of the founders. The complete findings, titled ‘The Impact of Founder Personality on Startup Success’, were published in Nature’s Scientific Reports in October 2023.
Professor Paul X McCarthy, based in Sydney, is a renowned CEO, author, and expert in computational social science. His bestselling book, Online Gravity, explains how technology is rebooting economics worldwide, has garnered international acclaim and has been published in multiple languages.
McCarthy is the CEO and co-founder of League of Scholars, a startup that collaborates with Universities, Governments, and Publishers, including Nature and News Corporation, to leverage data science in understanding the global technology and research landscape. He is also the co-founder of several innovative enterprises for IBM, the NSW Government, and CSIRO—Australia’s National Science Agency and the inventors of Wi-Fi.
In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, McCarthy was a founding board member and Chairman of The Studio, a global media tech hub launched in Sydney in 2018. He is a trusted adviser to the Government and numerous technology startups. He also holds academic positions as an Adjunct Professor at UNSW Australia, an Industry Fellow at The Data Science Institute at UTS, and an Honorary Fellow at Western Sydney University.
McCarthy’s research has significantly contributed to the field. His major two-year global research collaboration with Oxford, Melbourne, UTS, and UNSW resulted in findings published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Furthermore, his research with collaborators presented at ISPIM, Europe’s largest innovation conference, utilized Large Language Models to map the technology landscape of the world’s largest companies, uncovering latent technology capabilities and strengths.
As a regular contributor to esteemed publications like Forbes, The Conversation, and the Australian Financial Review, McCarthy continues to influence and shape the discourse in computational social science.
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