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Canva: A fusion of design
Melanie Perkins started working on what became Canva in 2007 from her Mom’s living room in Perth. The daughter of an Australian-born teacher and a Malaysian engineer of Filipino and Sri…
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BHP: From a broken hill to a big Australian
It became known as the ‘Big Australian’. But how did a boundary rider working in Australia’s outback start a venture that would become the largest mining company in the world?…
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Crumpler: A courier company bags a messenger
It’s 1992. A young man sits hunched over his grandmother’s old sewing machine in a shed in Ballarat, Australia. He’s trying to get the machine to sew through a truck…
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The Walt Disney Studios: It all started with a mouse
Our ‘interview’ with Walt Disney We sat down with ChatGPT and asked it to answer the questions below from Walt Disney’s perspective. It was a fascinating ‘interview’ with great insights.…
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Facebook: Out of the dorm
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. – Mark Zuckerberg Company…
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Apple. A start up with a kitchen table in the garage.
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” STEVE JOBS, CEO + FOUNDER, Apple We of course never got to…
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The Wright stuff: Two brothers take flight!
Early Life The Wright brothers grew up in Indiana and Ohio, with neither graduating from high school. They gained entrepreneurial experience by building a printing press and later opening a successful…
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TCM: There’s a method to their creative madness
I first met Tony in 2005. We both worked at a Brand design agency called DesignWorks. Tony was the senior designer on the Diageo and Unilever accounts, and I was…
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