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Canva cofounders Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams.

Canva founders would ‘happily stand aside’ if needed

Melanie Perkins calls it “refounding Canva”. Staff wanted to know if the founders are still the ones to do it in the wake of this week’s job cuts.

Featured

David Jones to close 19 stores by the end of the year

With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders have become the youngest self-made billionaires ever.

The world’s youngest self-made billionaires just doubled their fortunes

Anthropic targets $1.4 trillion valuation in highly anticipated IPO

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin

Jensen Huang is no longer among the world’s 10 richest as Nvidia slump continues

Aurel Bacs of Phillips presides over the highest watch auction in history

Phillips rocks the watch world with record $112 million auction

Life

Josh Niland, Saint Peter. Image: Supplied

Sydney’s Saint Peter makes the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for 2026

Model wearing a Buccellati bracelet and earrings from the San Giorgio set

Lightsabers, jewels and a $259,000 foosball table: Inside Neiman Marcus’s ultra-luxe Christmas gift guide

Molteni&C Surry Hills, Sydney

Why Molteni&C is making a bigger bet on Australia

Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal reacts during a UEFA Nations League match against Wales in Lisbon

Billionaire soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from Portugal national team

Patek Philippe Dual Time reference 3452/1 by Louis Cottier, a white and yellow gold wristwatch

Patek Philippe Dual Time watch by Cottier could fetch $1.6 million

The King and Queen’s royal connection to Melbourne Cup winner Point of Law

Issue 25

Chris Lucas

How Chris Lucas built a restaurant empire by thinking like a property developer

Morris of Rutherglen

The family that keeps turning up at the winery they haven’t owned for 56 years

Rick Stein reveals his favourite city, car and dream dinner guests

Graphic illustration of dice and board game

Where I’m putting the money: Simone Haslinger

From Synchron to Australian Ultra Bionics

Dali Kaafar centre with Brad Joffe (left) and Peter Eckermann.

How a Sydney professor built an AI army to scam the scammers

Billionaires

Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei at the Viva Technology conference in Paris

How much Dario Amodei and his six cofounders could be worth at Anthropic’s IPO price range

Lori Huang and Jensen Huang at the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in Santa Monica, California

Jensen Huang scandal sparks divorce speculation – billionaire’s wife could get half his $155 billion fortune

Forbes magazine archive image of Paul McCartney

The $1.4 billion Beatle: How Paul McCartney became the world’s third-richest musician

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage at CES

Nvidia investigating CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with alleged Chinese spy after he admits affair

Fernando De Leon, founder and CEO of Leon Capital Group

Republicans will pay “generationally” for their mistakes, says Texas billionaire

A Philippine Airlines Airbus A350-1000 jet

Philippine Airlines doubles Airbus A350-1000 firm orders amid North America push

Entrepreneurs

A hidden sliding door concealing a room of Star Wars memorabilia, installed by Murphy Door

This firefighter built a $60 million secret door company with customers like Post Malone

MetAI Technology digital twin of a semiconductor fab

This Nvidia-backed AI startup is helping chip giants save time and money

What I’d tell my younger founder self

How Alchemy Charge is transforming standard sockets into commercial EV chargers

They grew up amid blackouts. Now they’re developing AI to keep the lights on

The Allis Family

How this Boost Juice heir walked away from Yo-Chi – and still made millions

Innovation

Canva cofounders Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams.

Canva founders would ‘happily stand aside’ if no longer fit to lead, Cliff Obrecht tells staff

A Tesla Cybertruck

Musk says Tesla will refund Cybertruck deposits if company cannot manufacture enough before production shutters

A Tesla Cybertruck parked on a city street

Musk says Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production next year

Canva layoffs impact 1,200 after design giant’s ‘hardest year yet’

Traversal cofounders Anish Agarwal, Raj Agrawal, Raaz Dwivedi and Ahmed Lone

The billion-dollar business of fixing what AI builds

A student uses a Chromebook during a lesson

Google to cut AI-free search for schools that block its generative AI

BrandVoice

Ali Olmec, CEO Jim's Cleaning

Building franchises that last

How SyncTech is turning property data into more informed insurance decisions

Roborock’s Quan Gang on why smarter robots should demand less from us

Investing

Elon Musk speaking at a satellite conference in Washington, DC

Elon Musk’s fortune drops $80 billion amid tech stock rout

Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison seated in the Oval Office at the White House

Larry Ellison falls out of top 10 in billionaire rankings as Oracle plunges

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking on stage at GTC Berlin

Jensen Huang sheds $12 billion as Nvidia shares sink, falling two spots in billionaire rankings

Evos oil storage tanks in Hamburg, Germany

Adani Ports to buy European tank storage operator Evos in $2.9 billion deal

David Jones collapses into administration weeks before Christmas

Hilary Knight of Team USA celebrates a gold medal at the 2026 Winter Games

Olympic committee could sell commercial stake in Team USA – for billions

Leadership

U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff’s Australian roots and meteoric political rise

Forbes Asia November issue cover featuring Asia's Power Businesswomen 2026

Meet the 20 women pushing boundaries in Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2026 list

The personal branding paradox: Why imperfection makes you perfect

A Forbes Asia Power Businesswomen 2026 honoree

Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2026

NAB to cut 2,500 roles in restructure amid economic turbulence

Tim Doyle believed Eucalyptus could hit $10 billion. Here’s why he sold it for a fifth of that

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