This Month
How a uni dropout went from Maccas to building a $100m company
Mark Woodland was expanding his education start-up before realising he’d overlooked a critical component for its success and he had to fix it.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Athenaeum Club’s salami tactics trouble gender truce
It’s increasingly tricky to maintain both a male-only institution with a rollcall of reciprocal arrangements with prestigious British counterparts.
- Myriam Robin
The $150b club: Record number of super rich
The combined net worth of the world’s super-rich club is up 13 per cent this year to $3.3 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
- Diana Li and Jack Witzig
How the CEO of Oroton learnt to make the right career choices
Earlier in her career, Oroton CEO Jenny Child was frustrated at McKinsey and scored a job offer elsewhere. But a mentor warned her that the grass would not necessarily be greener. Child stayed at McKinsey, was made partner, moved to Australia and now runs a luxury retailer.
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
This former Young Rich Lister just spent $700k to alter his genes
Nick Bell’s first business failed, his next made him millions. The serial entrepreneur’s latest business venture involves helping people live longer.
- Julie-anne Sprague
April
Is it possible to find love without an app?
Online-dating fatigue is creating pressure for innovations to help humans discover love in real life, but hitting on strangers isn’t easy.
- Faith Hill
Australian Club showdown gives members indigestion
You know what totally ruins the vibe? Democracy. Of which members of Melbourne’s prestigious Australian Club have had a gutful.
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- Myriam Robin
Forrest-backed Minderoo to become bigger philanthropic force
The financial endowment behind Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s philanthropic Minderoo Foundation is expected to grow towards $40 billion by the end of the decade.
- Brad Thompson
Philanthropy 50: Which Australians gave away the most in 2023?
Donations from Australia’s biggest private givers have jumped to a record $1.25 billion.
- Lisa Murray
The homeschooled billionaire who built a fortune before turning 40
Shaun Bonett was the country’s richest person under 40 in 2007. Now a billionaire, he shares his story, including a humiliating $25 million mistake.
- Julie-anne Sprague
Forrests’ $10b philanthropic foundation to cut 100 jobs
Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation will shed about a third of its workforce in an overhaul aimed at making better use of its iron ore endowment.
- Brad Thompson
Leaked letter lashes Australian Club’s ‘ungentlemanly’ gossiping
Smoking pipes indoors? Gossiping about one’s fellow members? Things are turning decidedly spicy at Melbourne’s Australian Club.
- Myriam Robin
A new class system is emerging even within the world’s 1pc
The Forbes’ rich list has gained $US2 trillion as Taylor Swift and Sam Altman have become billionaires, but 14 people at the top belong in a new category.
- Lucy Burton
