How a regional cookie start-up won over Qantas and a shot at $14 million

Cooee began as a post on Facebook by a single mum with four kids under seven and a discretionary spend of $17.90 a week. It’s now targeting annual sales of $14 million. This story features on the cover of Forbes Australia: Issue 24 . Tap here to secure your copy. A million Qantas passengers will this […]

Quick Takes: Three entrepreneurs we’re watching right now – Issue 24

Forbes Australia picks out three Australian entrepreneurs who are making waves in the startup space right now. This story features in Issue 24 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy.  FibreconX After decades of building telecommunications networks, Mark Rafferty recognised a growing shortage in Australia’s fibre infrastructure. “I could see demand from the hyperscalers beginning […]

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 24

You’d be forgiven for thinking the only way to build a successful company is to become an AI genius or launch the next billion-dollar tech start-up.  This story features on the cover of Forbes Australia: Issue 24 . Tap here to secure your copy. It’s a fair assumption if you go by recent funding figures. Last quarter, AI […]

Sam Kennard, CEO of Kennards Self Storage.

How Sam Kennard built his family’s storage business into a $4.5 billion empire

After a staff revolt exposed deep cultural flaws, Sam Kennard transformed a modest family storage business into a $4.5 billion property powerhouse built on growth and reinvention.  This story features in Issue 24 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy.  Sam Kennard opens his emails one morning early in his life as a CEO […]

Cory Doctorow

How Australia can become a superpower of ‘disenshittification’

Cory Doctorow – the writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ to describe how tech platforms put profits before users – believes Australia could lead the world in turning things around. Cory Doctorow is sympathetic to the aims of the Australian government – and that of his native Canada – in attempting to take on social […]

Mybos

He sold software that didn’t exist. Now it’s a $6.5 million business

The Lebanese migrant and former building manager knocked on hundreds of doors before landing his first customer. Eleven years later, Mybos is taking on the world. Armed with only printed screenshots of what his dream would look like, Sam Khalef would use his spare time from being an apartment complex caretaker to nip out and […]