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Online design co. Canva’s Cameron Adams focuses on fixing problems for customers, not on monetary returns Canva’s achieved; & how founders/staff try to live their stated corporate  Value “to be a force for good”, through Canva philanthropy.

Canva co-founder Cameron Adams reveals how the Canva teams pulled out all stops in the past 12 months to fuel massive growth, leaping from serving individuals’ design needs, to servicing much larger corporates’ needs, and how that’s paying off. While much of Canva’s product is still free, Canva Pro team has launched a new tool […]

701 downloads Jul 19, 2020
Canva Co-founder Cameron Adams on building the online design tool company, becoming a billionaire with Canva’s recent $8.7billion valuation & the extraordinary challenges growing from 3 to 1,000 employees in less than 8yrs.

Cameron Adams began mucking around with computer games as a kid, in the back room of his dad’s suburban Melbourne computer shop. After uni he parlayed that computer literacy, fuelled by a passion for graphic design, into a job at Google. But his entrepreneurial spirit serendipitously led him to meet 2 young people with a […]

745 downloads Jul 12, 2020
Flight Centre co-founder 'Skroo' Turner, on being the accidental entrepreneur, dumping his professional career at 24, to start cheap double-decker bus tours through Europe to Afghanistan, mainly to have fun. It became his 1st business empire.

Graham Skroo Turner was bitten hard by the travel bug. Twice. Creating and building not 1 but 2 business empires specialising in travel. There’s the massive, now publicly listed Flight Centre, which operates in 24 countries, and writes billions of dollars in travel sales each year. But then there is another empire he built, from […]

712 downloads Jun 28, 2020
Flight Centre co-founder & CEO Graham "Skroo" Turner on shifting into survival mode, to battle the Covid19 crisis decimating the travel sector. How tough decisions averted a catastrophe for the global empire he built 38 yrs ago & how it survives.

Flight Centre co-founder Graham Skroo Turner witnessed bookings & sales in the giant global travel company’s leisure division plunge 97%, within just 1 week in March, as nations, Governments & states closed borders; ordered citizens & businesses into lockdown; and planes essentially stopped flying. How Skroo Turner & his leadership team went straight into survival […]

899 downloads Jun 21, 2020
Carman's Muesli CEO and food entrepreneur Carolyn Creswell on spending $1,000 to buy 1/2share of a tiny mum & dad muesli business about to fold and building it into a global brand selling 54 different product lines.

Carolyn Creswell started her entrepreneurial journey young… she was just 18 years old, working part-time as a student mixing up small batches of muesli for a mum & dad operation. When that business was about to fold, with her job threatened, she and a pal bought it for just $1,000 each. But it was no […]

800 downloads Jun 08, 2020
Four Pillars craft Gin entrepreneur  Stuart Gregor & co-founders, sold the 1st batch of 250 bottles of their Yarra Valley-based gin on crowdfunder  Pozible in 2013, selling out in 3 days. HOW they transformed it into a Gin "gold mine" within 6 years.

Four Pillars Gin entrepreneur & marketing whizz Stuart Gregor and his co-founders LOVE making craft gin, pouring heart and soul, plus the best local & exotic botanicals into their boutique Aussie brand. In just over 6 years, Four Pillars has won prestigious international awards, become a local G&T favourite, and was selling an impressive 600,000 […]

664 downloads May 31, 2020
COVID-19 SPECIAL, from Piacenza, Northern Italy, one of the world's worst hit regions, young Dr Daniela Petraglia on these heart-breaking, stressful past 9 weeks trying to save patients in the grip of virus onslaught, and why Italy's official death number

Young, 3rd-Year Resident, who is yet to graduate in her Specialty training, Dr Daniela Petraglia talks candidly about the almost crushing challenges faced by frontline doctors & nurses caring for the avalanche of ill Covid-19 patients which threatened to collapse the entire hospital system of Emilia-Romagna, one the hardest hit regions of Northern Italy. The […]

711 downloads May 24, 2020
COVID-19 SPECIAL, child infectious diseases specialist Professor David Isaacs, on the risks facing Australia as we ease lockdown, & HOW we might just avoid a major 2nd wave of infections.

Professor David Isaacs, senior Sydney pediatric specialist in respiratory virus infections and immunisations, at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, bluntly assesses WHY Australia has managed this pandemic pretty well so far compared to many world-leading nations and HOW only minor, firmly-controlled COVID-19 infection breakouts might occur once lockdown lightens. Plus he calmly explains the evidence […]

707 downloads May 17, 2020
COVID-19 SPECIAL, Grey Innovation's Jefferson Harcourt, on the massive Aussie manufacturing effort to build right here in Australia vital Ventilators to help patients fight the Covid-19 battle, &  build up our National Medical Stockpile

Melbourne-based medical device entrepreneur Jefferson Harcourt talks of the heroic collaboration going on right now between normal business competitors, to build from scratch and then deliver 2,000 invasive breathing Ventilators: new, much-needed “weapons” in the frontline fight against COVID-19, which will contribute to the Federal Government’s National Medical Stockpile. But what’s amazing about this extraordinary […]

710 downloads May 10, 2020
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