Founder of Chinese camera maker Insta360 becomes a billionaire upon IPO
At age 33, Liu Jingkang has earned a fortune of $2.7 billion by selling 360-degree action cameras.
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Amber Electric secures $45m raise as Australia’s home battery market surges
Australia’s largest residential battery automation product already captures 40% of the growing domestic market. Amber is also looking to provide wholesale energy pricing efficiency in the UK and Europe.
Refilled saves 450k plastic bottles from Aus landfill, expands to Singapore
Founded in 2022 with a mission to ‘unbottle the Australian drinks industry,’ Sydney-headquartered Refilled is expanding its scope into Asia.
Hailey Bieber’s $1 billion Rhode deal: Here are 26 others who made a fortune in beauty
Forbes counts fewer than 30 billionaires and centimillionaires in the U.S and Europe who have made a large chunk of their fortune in the super competitive world of beauty products.
How to turn conflict into connection
Conflict, handled well, isn’t a threat. It’s a tool – one of the most powerful in your leadership toolkit.
Meet India’s self-made biologics brewmaster billionaire
Thwarted in her ambition to become a brewmaster, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw channeled her frustrations into building a knockoff drug powerhouse and has become one of the world’s most successful female entrepreneurs.
Nine social impact entrepreneurs honoured at Cartier Women’s Initiative in Osaka
Cartier is getting behind social impact entrepreneurs for the 20th year and encouraging founders in Australia and NZ to apply.
Everything we know about OpenAI’s $6.5 billion purchase of Jony Ive’s Io
OpenAI’s Sam Altman called Ive, who designed several Apple products, the “greatest designer in the world.”
Rugs to riches: How Miss Amara spun a $26m empire from the floor up
From spying a growing category on Google Search to becoming a household name across Australia and New Zealand (not to mention expanding in Hong Kong and the US), the husband-and-wife duo behind Miss Amara, Alexandra and Aaron Weller, know a thing or two about category disruption. It’s 2014 and Aaron Weller is working in the […]
The $1 billion promise: Tory Burch’s bold bet on women entrepreneurs
The Tory Burch Foundation’s $1B pledge marks a new chapter in supporting women entrepreneurs and reshaping economic opportunity.