Entrepreneur
‘Bedroom coder’: Aussie game developer breaks out after Sonic success
Christian Whitehead drew international acclaim for his work with Sega and the blue hedgehog, but his new team’s first project is wholly original.
- by Tim Biggs
Latest
‘Who cares, I can do it’: How this 30-year-old Perth entrepreneur built a pretzel empire
The entrepreneur believes part of her success was the naivety of youth.
- by Tracy Vo
Fred’s empire is worth ‘almost a bil’ but he hasn’t changed his penny-pinching ways. Here’s why
Australian tech entrepreneur Fred Schebesta’s main company was last valued at $650 million, but he still uses two-ply toilet paper and his go-to shoes are six years old.
- by Ben Grubb
School’s out – and these students mean business
Across Victoria, teenaged entrepreneurs are starting and running companies at the same time as completing their high school studies.
- by Emma Koehn
Opinion
Inside China
The Chinese titans making a killing everywhere but China
Chinese entrepreneurs have been forced to take matters into their own hands.
- by Shuli Ren
‘It doesn’t quite feel like a life of success’: The reluctant son who became a billionaire
After a difficult childhood with his father, Yasuhide Uno wanted nothing to do with running the family business.
- by Min Jeong Lee, Yoojung Lee and Yasutaka Tamura
Poppy King was more than a lipstick queen. She challenged ideas of beauty
As a teenager, I finally found the role model I’d always longed for in the form of an 18-year-old entrepreneur.
- by Bunny Banyai
Rugby league star’s F45 gyms hit financial trouble
Former NRL star Nate Myles is the latest high profile F45 gym owner to be caught up in the financial troubles surrounding the cult fitness business.
- by Colin Kruger and Jessica Yun
Lachlan Murdoch pleaded with Google boss to save Aussie start-up
Media billionaire Lachlan Murdoch made a personal plea to Google’s chief executive in an attempt to stop the tech giant from banning Aussie start-up Unlockd from its platform in 2018.Â
- by Colin Kruger
Exclusive
Casinos
High Stakes: The ‘life-or-death’ battle over a company name
A fast-growing Sydney-based share trading platform and a casino giant run by a pair of Melbourne-based twenty-something billionaires are locking horns.
- by Sarah Danckert
‘We will miss him’: Auto Masters managing director Nigel Warr dies after motorbike event accident
It was 1992 when Warr joined Auto Masters as a manager at the Northbridge centre. By 1996 he owned 15 franchises. Today the group boasts 82 locations across Western Australia, South Australia, and Queensland.