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Paul Wiltshire swapped songwriting for software – and built the world’s biggest B2B music licensing platform. This story appears in Issue 20 of Forbes Australia – Out now. Paul Wiltshire wonders about the two competing sides of his brain, the creative one that wrote and produced songs for chart-topping performers, and the commercial half that […]
Forbes Australia picks out three Australian entrepreneurs who are making waves in the startup space right now. Quick Takes appears in Issue 20 of Forbes Australia, out now. Tap here to secure your copy. Conry Tech After six decades in the air-conditioning sector, Ron Conry found himself facing an industry that looked much the same as […]
The world’s first ultra-luxury icebreaker is charting a course for Hobart, bringing billionaires, scientists and an idea born over dinner in Brittany to Australia’s edge. In 2015, over dinner and a bottle of wine in Brittany, France, a handful of Ponant executives discussed an idea that sounded implausible. They wanted a ship strong enough to […]
Thousands of fans packed into Yas Marina for the final F1 race of the season. Millions more watched from home. Photographers were stacked three deep along the fence as Lando Norris claimed his first world championship. Front and centre in almost every celebration shot was the detail on his wrist, the kind of product placement […]
Australia’s first indoor snow resort has taken a step forward, signing a partnership with global Chinese operator Bonski Group — a move its developers say positions western Sydney for a new era of tourism investment. Key Takeaways Key Background Winter Sports World, a $700 million indoor snow resort planned for Penrith in western Sydney, has […]
Saluda had a disastrous debut on the ASX on Friday, shedding half its value. But here’s the inside story of resilience in the company that learnt how to read signals going up the spinal cord and to turned them into pain relief. Saluda founder John Parker has just delivered a talk at an international biomedical […]
Greg MacPherson has spent five years building a global anti-aging brand and now has data showing a 5.71-year biological age drop in 50 adults. Experts call it intriguing — and riddled with caveats. Greg MacPherson has a problem. He’s got a supplement, Cel, he reckons will add years to your life, but all the knockers […]
As alternative assets boom, a retired teacher’s remarkable cache of ancient Roman and Greek gold — plus two Victoria Crosses — is poised to ignite fierce auction interest. When retired teacher Anthony Taylor first wandered into Noble Numismatics years ago, few imagined he would assemble the most significant private collection of ancient gold coins to […]
While gyms are closing across Australia, Joy In Movement is booming. Its low-cost infrared studios and automated classes have created a boutique fitness blueprint. The lights are red and dim. The room is hot. Five of us are panting away on mats, skin glistening like a 3am dancefloor. But it’s 8am in what is […]
Two Melbourne engineers turned undergrad frugality into a superpower, leveraging their Forbes Australia 30 Under 30 listing into a space up and comer. At an age when most engineering grads are still polishing their LinkedIn pages, Shoaib Iqbal, 25, and Przemyslaw “Joey” Lorenczak, 28, have put four hyperspectral sensors into orbit for less than the […]