Peter Magnisalis doesn’t ski. He’s never done his own property developments before. But he’s about to start building a $700 million indoor ski field, Winter Sports World. Here’s why. Winter Sports World managing directer Peter Magnisalis didn’t even know indoor snow-sports centres existed when he first came up with the idea of creating “a building […]
Comedian Merrick Watts finds that finishing the SAS entrance course has nothing on starting a gladiator-inspired business. Merrick Watts has just completed a morning shift on Triple M radio. He got out of bed at 3:45am having finished a comedy gig the night before at 10pm. And now he’s starting a full eight-hour day’s work […]
Australia’s visionary eye-health company Opthea, which raised almost $1 billion to bring its eye injection to market, is fighting for survival today after the failure of its first Phase-3 trial.
Synchron founder Tom Oxley explains to Forbes Australia how his partnership with NVIDIA and Apple is training AI direct from the brain to create a “flight simulator” for humans. Synchron unveiled its “Chiral” AI and its roadmap to using brain-computer interfaces to train AI direct from human neural activity at chip company NVIDIA’s GPU Technology […]
Francis Wedin built Vulcan Energy into an $800 million green lithium powerhouse – and got the feuding Rinehart-Hancocks on his share registry. Francis Wedin was a 27-year-old fly-in-fly-out geologist at a West Australian gold mine in 2013 when he read an article about Tesla that would lead him to solving one of the more intractable […]
Coming out of the closet gave Talent CEO Mark Nielsen the courage to be a better businessman and the wisdom to know how to avoid the ‘Sunday Scaries’. From the time he was a child, Mark Nielsen knew he was different, but didn’t quite understand why. It would later turn out that a lot of […]
More than 10,000 people flocked to Salesforce’s Agentforce World Tour Sydney on Wednesday to hear about artificial intelligence’s newest era.
Jack Cowin on how he won friends, influenced people and made a few billion on the way… and who’s going to run his diversified fast-food empire when he’s gone. This story featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Australia. You can grab your copy here. Jack Cowin recounts with a sense of wonder the pivotal few […]
Crypto casinos, chart-topping rappers, and record-breaking mansions: the newest entries into Forbes Australia’s 50 Richest, Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, on how they skated the edge of legality to build their combined US$5.6 billion fortune. This story featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Australia. You can grab your copy here. Ed Craven is still an […]
Shelley Sullivan, founder of cosmetics brand, MCoBeauty, has sold her 50% remaining share in the business she founded just five years ago, after turning it into Australia’s top-selling beauty brand. Shelley Sullivan stepped down as CEO of MCoBeauty on Friday, after selling the business at a valuation “north of $1 billion” to DBG Health’s Dennis […]