8 winning lessons from the billionaire behind Dick’s Sporting Goods

These simple tips helped Ed Stack turn his father’s small business into a sporting goods empire worth over $18 billion. This story was featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Autralia. Tap here to secure your copy. When Ed Stack started working at his father as a teenager, he hated it. Instead of playing baseball with his friends […]

Vulcan Energy

How Vulcan is fixing EV batteries’ dirty secret

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 […]

No more smashed avo: The Aussie robot fixing farming’s delicate problem

Dr Nicole Robinson and Dr Jürgen Leitner founded LYRO Robotics to solve an interesting agricultural robotics challenge – delicately yet firmly grasping and packing avocados. This story featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. When Dr Nicole Robinson was growing up in Melbourne in the early 2000s, she was fascinated by technology, robotics, […]

Mark Nielsen Talent

Talent CEO Mark Nielsen on why coming out made him a better leader

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 […]

What makes a car a classic? Inside the mind of a Concours d’Elegance judge

Concours d’Elegance jury chair Alessandra Giorgetti has the challenging task of helping choose the winner of this year’s Sydney event. Stewart Hawkins asked her about what distinguishes “haute automobilisme” from mere motoring enthusiasm.  This story was featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Autralia. Tap here to secure your copy. Passion is ethereal. What is it about automobiles […]