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BigCommerce founders bound for Rich List after sizzling IPO
From humble beginnings above a Rozelle phone shop, Eddie Machaalani and Mitchell Harper are set to burst on to the Financial Review Rich List with fortunes of about $650 million each.
- Michael Bailey
The executives building fortunes from gold's dazzling run
A number of mining executives are getting paper rich off the back of the soaring gold price.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Robert Guy
Afterpay founders cash in as they race up the Rich List
Afterpay founders cash in on the booming success of their buy now, pay later company, bolstering their position on the Financial Review Rich List.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
- Exclusive
- Lessons from Lockdown
Tim Gurner's lockdown game changer
The Rich Lister reveals why 5.30am is the most productive part of his day and why he won't be doing much business travel when restrictions are lifted.
- Natasha Boddy
Beauty queen Kate Morris on her $100m year
Far from slowing her down, COVID-19 has taken the founder of Adore Beauty from strength to strength.
- Susan Owens
The 2019 List
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June
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- Lessons from Lockdown
Nick Bell's plan to ban long meetings
Young Rich Lister Nick Bell reveals how COVID-19 inspired a new business venture and encouraged him to abolish unnecessary meetings.
- Natasha Boddy
May
Young Rich Lister shifts gears to survive
Usage has halved and 30 per cent of staff have been made redundant at highly backed shift-worker platform Deputy, but its co-founder Ashik Ahmed has a revival plan.
- Michael Bailey
April
Rideshare Rich Lister pivots to delivery
Chris King's business of leasing cars to rideshare drivers put him in the express lane to riches. Now he's running just as fast to save it.
- Michael Bailey
Young Rich Lister pivots to virus-detecting airport check-in
A meeting with Hong Kong Airport in early February gave Aaron Hornlimann a head start in adapting his business for COVID-19.
- Michael Bailey
March
Young Rich tips: Start a business and fail
Two entrepreneurs tell the Business Summit how they rode bandwagons on to the Young Rich List: "I'd rather take an existing business model that you can see works, and do it better."
- Michael Bailey
Listen: What I would have told my young self
Removify's Nick Bell and Joshua Fegan of Althea Group are on the Young Rich List - and this is the advice they'd give to their 18-year-old selves.
Rich Lister resigns from embattled Soar Aviation
Regulators stripped Soar of its vocational training qualifications in December, the same month one of its planes crashed in Victoria.
- Lucas Baird
February
Steve Smith gets another $1.5m richer as Koala bears fruit
The Australian cricket star has made another ton of money on paper, thanks to some fast running at the mattresses-and-more e-tailer, where he was maiden investor in 2015.
- Michael Bailey
December 2019
Pat Cummins strikes for Young Rich List with $10k a ball deal
The paceman will need a few more record Indian Premier League deals to match cricketing Rich Listers like Michael Clarke and Steve Smith.
- Michael Bailey
November 2019
Meet the refugee eyeing a $1b float
Four decades after fleeing his homeland, Van Thanh Luong may now be Australia’s most successful Vietnamese refugee businessperson. We tell his story for the first time.
- Greg Earl
Envato subscriber base booms on Twitch, Instagram demand
The Melbourne-based digital assets marketplace is "selling shovels to the goldminers" of the digital world, according to co-founder Collis Ta'eed.
- Michael Bailey
From burger flipper to flexible workers' friend
Deputy co-founder Ashik Ahmed wants his rostering and workplace management software to be used by every shift worker in the world.
- Michael Bailey
Matildas have their AFL sisters to thank for pay deal
The Football Federation of Australia's historic agreement for equal pay between the national women's and men's teams was motivated by competition from the women's Australian Football League.
- Michael Bailey
October 2019
Young Rich Lister founders bristle at share plan rules
After one of Robert Rowe's employees stole $1 million from him, the builder and Young Rich Lister knew he needed to give more back to his staff.
- Michael Bailey
- Opinion
- The AFR View
New generation of wealth to lead digital charge
Australia's Young Rich look closer in profile to the global giants of disruption who are rewiring the world economy
- The AFR View
Can this tech unicorn build the Uber of real estate?
Software whiz, Manhattan club owner and Hollywood investor Ori Allon is on an audacious mission to disrupt the property sector. But will Compass ever point back to his launch pad, Australia?
- Jacob Greber
Former Young Rich Lister goes into administration
Julie Stevanja's high-profile activewear business, Stylerunner, has been put into receivership by its debt funder.
- Michael Bailey
Young Rich tech stars are under the valuation microscope
Builders of software-as-a-service platforms or online marketplaces dominate the list of Australia's wealthiest aged 40 and under, but their valuations face pressure.
- Michael Bailey and Jacob Greber
Young Rich List wealth almost doubles to $41.2b
The wealthiest self-made young Australians are growing their businesses at a rate that is challenging legacy ASX companies.
- Michael Bailey
Who are the money men behind the Young Rich Listers?
They're local funds calling themselves private growth capital and they're on the hunt for Australian businesses with billion-dollar potential.
- Jemima Whyte
