The 2020 List
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How we shot the 2021 Rich List
There were a few dramas trying to capture some of the stunning photos for this year’s list of Australia’s wealthiest people.
- Matthew Drummond
Street cred propels Culture Kings onto Rich List
Simon and Tah-nee Beard started off selling clothes at a Gold Coast market. Now their estimated net wealth is $626 million and Culture Kings is bound for the US.
- Julie-anne Sprague
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- Advertising
Young Rich Lister opens digital agency to take on global behemoths
Former Young Rich Lister will challenge “over-charging” agencies within holding groups.
- Miranda Ward
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- Funding
Brisbane couple builds tech giant on the quiet
The hunt for the next Atlassian could be over after Paul and Sonia Stovell’s little-known Octopus Deploy got one of the biggest Australian tech VC investments.
- Paul Smith
Why Zoe Foster Blake is selling a stake in Go-To
Beauty entrepreneur and Financial Review Young Rich Lister Zoe Foster Blake has confirmed she’s offloading a stake in her growing Go-To Skincare company.
- Julie-anne Sprague
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The Young Rich Lister who’s also won Magician of the Year
In developer circles he’s known as Magic Keith. To the rest of Australia, he’s the extremely successful creator of software company Buildkite.
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- Philippa Coates
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- Luxury property
Tech whiz expects expats to swoop on $30m Toorak mansion
The sprawling property includes a four-bedroom home with a lift, gym, cinema and cellar as well as a separate home office surrounded by rolling lawns.
- Larry Schlesinger
Australia's richest young people: the full list revealed
Thanks the pandemic, there's been a dramatic surge in the fortunes of Australia's 100 richest people aged 40 or under. Here's the full rundown of who they are - and how they made it.
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- Michael Bailey and Julie-anne Sprague
To $3b and beyond. What’s the Zip Co special sauce?
Thanks to a pandemic tailwind, and the right partnership, Larry Diamond has zipped up the ranks of Australia’s young entrepreneurs.
- James Eyers
Fashions on the tech field: We rate six start-ups’ T-shirts
Start-up companies are all about creativity, innovation and opportunity. So how does their merch measure up?
- Lauren Sams
November 2020
- No. 84
- Trends
Fresh face joins Young Rich List as skincare cleans up in pandemic
The beauty writer-turned-blogger, Instagram influencer and author has tapped into a gold mine with her lean, clean beauty regime.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Meet Australia’s newest and youngest self-made millionaires
Zoe Foster Blake is one of 18 debutants on this year's Young Rich List, which since 2003 has ranked the wealthiest self-made Australians aged 40 and under.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
Calling nerds with no business experience: venture capital wants you
If a successful start-up founder is the pop star of the modern era, then today’s venture capital funds are like record label talent scouts in the early 1990s.
- Matthew Drummond and Jemima Whyte
- No. 37
- Other Passions
Forget Ferraris, this Young Rich Lister is happy with his Honda
Old-school cars were once Tim Fung’s ticket to getting around Sydney. Now they are hurtling him around the racetrack.
- Philippa Coates
- No. 36
- Pregnancy
The Young Rich Listers racing to create $1b companies
Robert Bates and Emma Gibson are in a race for unicorn status after building a $140 million fortune that pushes them onto the Young Rich List.
- Julie-anne Sprague
- Analysis
- Investing
What’s a start-up really worth?
It’s a necessary evil of this bull market that so many companies are now valued on multiples of their sales, as opposed to profits.
- Vesna Poljak
- No. 92
- Rich listers
Third Finder original joins exclusive club
Jeremy Cabral was quietly given 10 per cent of Finder when he joined in 2009. That holding has now propelled him into the Young Rich List alongside the product comparison site's co-founders.
- Michael Bailey
- No. 55
- Construction
From playing NRL to a $347m fortune
Wes Maas debuts on this year's Financial Review Young Rich List after creating a fortune from a company he set up when he was just 22.
- Julie-anne Sprague
September 2020
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- Online shopping
Steve Smith hits a six-bagger with Snappr investment
The Australian cricketer, who has made a ton on paper with Koala Mattress, has also scored big with his early backing of an Aussie-founded photography marketplace.
- Michael Bailey
Pepperstone hit in 'sophisticated and multifaceted' cyber attack
Australian based derivatives and forex broker hit in a second targeted attack by cyber criminals.
- James Frost
August 2020
Airtasker's Tim Fung – from the suburbs to the Young Rich List
The co-founder and chief executive of the odd-jobs platform discovered his entrepreneurial streak by pulling out his father's grey hairs.
- Michael Bailey
Afterpay shares hit record high on $82m European deal
The fintech juggernaut will roll out its Clearpay brand across Europe after buying Spanish payments company Pagantis for €50 million.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Rich Listers Kayla Itsines and Tobi Pearce split
The couple behind the globally successful Sweat app are breaking up, just a year after pooling their investment in the company.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
Young Rich Listers fly as Buildkite valued at $200m
The Melbourne-based makers of a testing tool for software developers will join the ranks of Australia's wealthiest 40-and-unders after attracting $28 million from US investors.
- Michael Bailey
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
July 2020
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
June 2020
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- 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
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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
