Michelle Battersby on creating a safe space for dangerous nipples. There was always a question in Michelle Battersby’s mind while she built the Australian business of the dating app Bumble. As the app went through a million Australian registrations, two million, then three million, the question remained: “Am I really good at this?” Or was […]
How two colleagues went from whiteboard to 25 countries with their sunscreen beauty brand Ultra Violette So what do you do when you’ve got an idea for a new business, but the one person in the world you’d want to start that business with is your boss? Ava Matthews says she doesn’t have much of […]
Architect James Davidson wants to move the dial faster on making homes safer, insurance cheaper and enabling communities to rebuild better when nature devastates cities and regions. Australia has always seen extreme natural events, doused with flooding rains, burnt by bushfires, scorched by drought and buffeted by cyclones and dust storms that smother regional areas […]
Boxer Danny Green’s punt on boxing-based fitness is paying off as his franchise goes global. Long before he got involved in UBX, boxer Danny Green’s father would tell the four-time world champ, “Mate, set things up for life after boxing before you finish boxing.” So, towards the end of his career, in 2014, Green was […]
Deel’s co-founder and its ANZ country lead say international hiring will take the Australian jobs market by storm in 2023 and beyond. Alex Bouaziz, 29, co-founded HR software company Deel in 2019 with former MIT robotics student Shuo Wang (she’s now the company’s chief revenue officer). After banking $4 million in annual recurring revenue in […]
Bikini maker Rebecca Klodinsky learnt that diamonds aren’t forever, so she started making her own jewels. When Rebecca Klodinsky couldn’t find the bikini she really wanted, she put on her backpack, went to Indonesia and found a factory that would make it for her. Thus was born her label Frankii – now rebranded as IIXIIST […]
How Clayton Larcombe found himself as the go-to guy for international Esports. Eight years ago, Clayton Larcombe was on the Hong Kong trading desk for Morgan Stanley. Still, since his return to Australia, he’s found himself owning a chunk of an Esports betting operation, founding an investment fund emphasising Esports that now has $500 million […]
Move over Google Wing: Melbourne-based drone services company Swoop Aero is changing the drone services game and attracting global attention. Swoop Aero co-founder Eric Peck broke the speed of sound the day before his 21st birthday. He also received his Hercules aircraft captaincy two weeks after turning 25. He is somewhat “miffed” by that fact, […]
Having been taken over by a ticketing giant, Fan+ is gearing up to change the hero/fanatic relationship. Rod Harys was CEO of the Sydney Kings basketball franchise when he experienced his great fanboy moment. Meeting stars can be mundane for people atop sports organisations. Still, when Harys got a tap on the shoulder back in […]
After experiencing extreme highs and lows with his previous company, SKINS, Jaimie Fuller has taken his “what not to do” in business and applied it to his wearables sports tech business, eo. After years heading up the global sports compression clothing label SKINS, there aren’t many professional athletes and international sporting teams that Jaimie Fuller […]