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‘We’re a tech company’: Rio boss draws on lessons of history

Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm says history helps prove the miner is actually a technology company. It will need to be to solve the decade’s next big challenges.

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It was no accident that the audience at the Melbourne Mining Club on Tuesday for Rio Tinto’s chief executive Jakob Stausholm’s maiden appearance was littered with luminaries from the company’s past.

Rio Tinto boss Jakob Stausholm at the Melbourne Mining Club lunch on Tuesday.  LUIS ENRIQUE ASCUI

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com
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