S2E1: Hey Tiger: Cyan Ta'eed

Cyan Ta'eed is a serial entrepreneur. She's the co-founder of Envato, a digital assets marketplace, founder of Hey Tiger, an ethical chocolate company and recently founded Milkshake, an influencer marketing tool. Cyan worked as a freelance graphic designer before starting Envato, in a Bondi garage in 2006. In 2016, she debuted on the AFR Young Rich List when Envato, was worth $186million dollars. In 2019, Envato,is valued at more than a billion dollars, landing Cyan and her husband Collis  on the AFR Rich List with a net worth of $974million. She recently stepped back from the day-to-day running of Envato, to focus on other enterprises, one of those being Hey Tiger, an ethical chocolate company that donates a percentage of all sales to supporting cocoa farmers in Ghana. As the CEO of the company she doesn’t take a salary. This year, Cyan launched Milkshake, an Instagram plug-in that allows influencers to create beautiful websites.

Cyan is an entrepreneur who believes in businesses doing good. She loves the early stages of a start-up, an inspiration quote or too, and thinks entrepreneurship is like a muscle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.