How I Made It
How I Made It
How I Made It is back with new hosts Lauren Sams & Yolanda Redrup. Join us to learn how Australia’s top entrepreneurs built their fortunes and what they learnt along the way.Social links:
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App exclusive | Bill Beament led a 1¢ company. Now it’s Australia’s biggest gold miner
Bill Beament put himself on the map by transforming a fledgling explorer, Northern Star, into one of the world's biggest gold miners. After turning the 1¢ company into a multibillion-dollar giant, the West Australian decided to take a punt on a new solo venture. Now the founder and chief executiv…
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'I had $200′: Inside Aussie Bruna Papandrea’s meteoric Hollywood rise
When Bruna Papandrea arrived in New York, she had $200. An avid storyteller, the South Australian began reading scripts for her friend, actor Anthony LaPaglia. But it was when she was offered a job working for legendary filmmakers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella that her career transformed. …
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How this ex-Packer lawyer secured Australia’s biggest real estate deal
“Kerry Packer was one of the last greats,” says Craig Carracher, co-founder of The Living Company. As the media mogul's lawyer, Carracher spent five years observing his intuition, leadership and deal-making. Since embarking on his own entrepreneurial venture with business partner Stephen Gaitanos…
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How this 26-year-old built a $100m robotics company
Grace Brown had always enjoyed maths, science and music. Teamed with a “wild imagination”, her interest in patterns meant she was obsessed with all things magic. When she took on an engineering design subject in high school, everything became clear. “I wanted to spend the rest of my life working …
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Alex Vynokur bet the house to start Betashares. It now manages $75b
The former lawyer walked away from a top-tier legal career to risk his house on an ETF venture. It’s now the country’s second-largest exchange-traded funds provider. "I was just totally convinced that you know I should just do it," says the Betashares founder. On the first episode of the new seas…
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Trailer: How I Made It returns July 29
How I Made It is back with host Lauren Sams. Don’t miss season six as we uncover how Australia’s top entrepreneurs built their fortunes and what they learnt along the way.
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What working on David Bowie’s yacht taught Boost founder Janine Allis
Growing up, Janine Allis never thought about starting her own business. “I didn’t even know what an entrepreneur was,” she says. But after spotting a gap in the market, there was no stopping the founder of a now-global smoothie company that’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars. On the final ep…
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‘It's the Mount Everest of careers’: How Fleet’s CEO built an $800m company
Since she was a little girl, Flavia Tata Nardini was obsessed with space. The Italian-born rocket scientist began her career at the European Space Agency but moved to Adelaide in her 20s, where she found herself confronted with a lack of industry. Left with no other choice, she started her own bu…
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A scam set WA’s fertiliser king on a path to a $5b fortune
Vikas Rambal came to Australia from India on a prospective business trip in 2000. But the project he was looking into was not what it seemed. It was a moment on his five-day trip that would prove to be pivotal. On this week’s episode of How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how…
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How a former IBM executive redefined Australia’s restaurant scene
Chris Lucas grew up in the world of hospitality, often spending time in his dad’s pub in Geelong. But it wasn’t until his mid-30s that one of the country’s top restaurateurs entered the industry himself. On this week’s episode of How I Made It, host Lauren Sams finds out how working at IBM as a s…
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