Kym O’Leary founded her business, COgear, a decade ago after working nearly the same time in the mining industry and watching her female colleagues wear men’s gear. There was no alternative, so she created it. Kym O’Leary was in a meeting with her then manager at Anglo American, who was heavily pregnant, and seven other […]
If there was ever a case for entrepreneurs being born and not made, Ruslan Kogan is it. He talks exclusively to Forbes Australia about his journey from being a migrant kid in housing commission flats in Melbourne to one of the country’s most successful tech entrepreneurs. At the age of six, for example, he discovered […]
Naomi Simson is the founder of experience gifting giant RedBalloon and one of Australia’s best-known entrepreneurs. In 2017, she co-founded Big Red Group, the biggest experience marketplace in Australia and New Zealand. It serves an experience every 18 seconds – the equivalent of 1.5 million a year. The former Shark Tank judge shares the habits […]
How a bunch of school friends built a $3-billion company in Brisbane’s Logan district. Andrew Barnes and Vu Tran were in high school and needed a job. They could have stacked shelves at Coles for $15 an hour. Instead, they started a software business and “made a dollar an hour”. Watching on in the year […]
Chances are you’ve seen a surfer down at the local beach flying over the water’s surface on what looks like a hoverboard. The electric foil, jokingly dubbed the “jet-ski killer” by David Trewern, CEO and founder of Fliteboard, started as a passion project – now it’s on nearly every superyacht in the world. Six years ago, […]
Travel industry juggernaut Flight Centre Travel Group hit a share-price peak of over $60 in 2018. On March 19 2020, it crashed to just under $9. While the now-$5 billion business has made ground since the pandemic, the good times are a way off. But founder and CEO Skroo Turner and his Flight Centre crew […]
The level of venture capital funding allocated to women-founded and led businesses has halved since 2020 to just 3%. But a growing number of female venture capital fund managers with connections to some of the country’s most influential, wealthiest families, are attempting to provide greater opportunities for women, investors and the economy. Australia’s female VC […]
The wineries that should be going on your bucket list, from Spain, to New Zealand and Uruguay. Issue six of Forbes Australia is out now. Tap here to secure your copy and become a premium member. Catena Zapata in Mendoza was voted number one in the World’s Best Vineyards Awards for 2023 in a ceremony […]
Australia’s ageing population is driving a trend towards oversize luxury apartments and could see the creation of more luxury towers in major cities. Issue six of Forbes Australia is out now. Tap here to secure your copy and become a premium member. Demand for luxury apartments in Australian cities is rising in tandem with the […]
Carol Schwartz is one of Australia’s most influential investors, pouring millions of dollars into women-led start-ups. The Reserve Bank of Australia board member also co-founded Scale Investors. This female-led start-up accelerator has injected more than $20 million into 46 businesses now worth an estimated half a billion dollars. More recently, her focus has shifted to […]