How I Made It

This week, entrepreneur Jo Horgan invites Julie-anne Sprague into the nerve centre of Mecca to reveal how her love for English literature led to her founding the international cosmetics giant.

This podcast is sponsored by Charter Hall, to learn more visit www.charterhall.com.au/investments/new-to-investing/getting-started-in-commercial-property-investment

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How two Melbourne entrepreneurs stole the beauty market

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In 2008, Tania Austin took a risk buying five retail stores under the Decjuba banner. 15 years on Decjuba is now a women's fashion powerhouse with more than 140 stores across Australia and New Zealand.

This podcast is sponsored by Charter Hall, to learn more visit www.charterhall.com.au/investments/new-to-investing/getting-started-in-commercial-property-investment

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Meet the three new women set to join the Rich List

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Kristy Chong revolutionised personal care products for women all over the world by creating an underwear range that absorbs leaks. The company she founded in 2013, ModiBodi, sold for $140 million last year and now Chong is turning from entrepreneur to investor. But there’s a caveat. The companies she’s backing must be founded by women.

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How an Aussie entrepreneur turned leak-proof undies into $140m in cash

Three's a party for Quadrant's new Growth Fund

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Starting March 20, you’ll hear stories from women who’ve faced down enormous challenges to take a simple idea and build a business.

Some would go global.  

They’re changing the face of Australian business and paving the way for a new generation of female leaders.

We’ll uncover the daily hacks they use to get ahead and they’ll share some unique challenges that, rightly or wrongly, get thrown at them simply because they’re women.

Join us fortnightly here on the How I Made It feed, as we reveal how these entrepreneurs got their businesses off the ground and the sacrifices made in the relentless pursuit of success.  

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Australia’s most prestigious business column is now a podcast. Chanticleer is a weekly news breakdown of all things business, finance and markets.

Every Friday, Australian Financial Review columnists Tony Boyd and James Thomson go behind the doors of corporate Australia to give you their unvarnished analysis.

The first episode drops 5pm, Friday September 16.

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His parents moved to Australia with just $90 to their name, raising their young family in a housing commission flat in Melbourne. It was there Ruslan Kogan honed his selling skills, making a buck selling golf balls and washing cars. He’s now worth about $300 million after creating online retailer Kogan.com.

Background reading:

• This Rich Lister quit his job as a consultant to sell TVs for 1¢ While living in a Melbourne housing commission flat, a young Ruslan Kogan honed his selling skills, making a buck selling golf balls and washing cars.

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Aaron Hornlimann bred guinea pigs to earn a buck as a kid. By his early 20s he was developing a text messaging system for Jetstar and now, at 35, the Young Rich Lister worth an estimated $34 million, is growing Elenium, a company making things easier for people to get in and out of airports.

Background reading:

• ‘Sure, of course I can’: From uni dropout to young rich list Aaron Hornlimann, 35, is behind a company whose technology makes it easier for people to get in and out of airports.

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Simon Beard and his wife Tah-nee started Culture Kings as a market stall at the Carrara Markets on the Gold Coast. Last year they cut a deal to sell their company for more than $600 million. Here’s how they did it.

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• From tight-arse teenager to the Rich List As a kid, Simon Beard saved every cent given to him, stashing it in a drawer. By the time he finished high school, he had a kitty of $4000 and made a bold move: he bet the lot on buying hands-free phone devices from someone he didn’t know in China. He turned up at Gold Coast’s Carrara Markets hoping to turn a profit. “My first day I was just a stuttering mess,” the founder of Culture Kings says.
• Want to be a Rich Lister? Get up at 4am, take an ice bath, meditate Simon Beard says being an entrepreneur is like trying to make it to the NBA. His days are literally planned to the minute. 

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At 25, Robbie Ferguson is the youngest person to make the list since it began in 1983. He and his brother James have a combined wealth of $1billion thanks to the success of their crypto business Immutable. 

Background reading:

• The Rich Lister tipping a crypto rebound Australia’s youngest Rich Lister used to frustrate his parents by devoting a lot of time to video games. Now he co-owns a company worth $3.5 billion.
• Rich list tips: don’t study law (unless you really want to) Budding founders should hire slowly, don’t study law, don’t get caught in the hype, and read.

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