Forbes Australia launched in September 2022 to bring you ideas that change the world. Here’s our most read articles to date. The metaverse and Web3 certainly gained a lot of interest. KPMG goes deep into the metaverse with new appointment The billion dollar brothers Entrepreneurs taught us a lot about how to succeed. The quest […]
Collaborations bring enormous diversity to what’s on offer from Haydenshapes, with innovation key to every project. At 15, Hayden Cox started shaping surfboards, and at one point, he noticed another local artist in Sydney’s Mona Vale who was producing some “pretty incredible street art”. “I asked him to come and paint surfboards,” Cox says. He […]
The CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub explains why artificial intelligence is revolutionising the way coding works. In a world where software plays an increasingly central role in day-to-day life – from producing sophisticated business reporting functions to driving a car or choosing the next series to binge on, the shortage of software developers is cause for concern, […]
These three companies offer next-level experiential perks to high performing team members. A berth on a famous yacht race: LawConnect When app developer Payal Pattanaik got an email saying she had won a place on the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2022, she didn’t know what it involved. She had entered the companywide lottery without […]
Venture capital firm AirTree recently doubled down on its investments into the company with a $15 million co-investment with one of its LPs. In 2014, Nasir Ahsan was part of a deep ocean expedition to map the seabed four kilometres below the earth’s surface using a robot. The marine robotics expert was on the vessel […]
A mining magnate, former PM, a banker and a colleague of Elon Musk are among the Australian women on Forbes’ The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List. A mining magnate, former PM, banker and colleague of Elon Musk are among the Australian women on Forbes’ The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women List Forbes’ 100 Most […]
Earlier this year, Alisha Geary zoomed in from Paris to the weekly Dream Venture Masterclasses ahead of a shark-tank style pitch against other Indigenous start-ups. Everyone there was vying for a slice of the $150,000 from Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation and, perhaps more crucially, for the attention of the venture capitalists in the […]
91-year-old theoretical physicist Heinrich Hora and material scientist Warren McKenzie, the co-founders of HB11 Energy, believe they can radically change the future with a high-powered laser and a few protons to create viable nuclear fusion. Now, they say, they just need a $100 million laser of their own to prove it, and the Australian government […]
This is how Wild Hibiscus spent $1.6 million researching how to put ‘caviar’ in a bottle and create a magical spirit. Lee Etherington’s journey to becoming the maker of finger lime gin began with a hibiscus flower dropped, on a whim, into a glass of champagne. The diners at his dinner party that night some […]
OwnHome is a rent-to-buy scheme for first-time buyers that aims to reverse the trend of declining homeownership in Australia. James Bowe and Tim Harley were best friends and housemates at law school in Sydney and they always knew they would start a business together. They just weren’t sure what kind of business it would be. […]