Australia has a good tradition of entrepreneurs. However, who is our best current entrepreneur? Does age count? Do you know everyone on the list? Who else shpould be a contender?
John Singleton
Dick Smith
Nathan Tinkler
James Packer
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
Who is Australia's best entrepreneur?
Australia has a good tradition of entrepreneurs. However, who is our best current entrepreneur? Does age count? Do you know everyone on the list? Who else shpould be a contender?
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dick smith but he pretends to be like bill gates, all nerdy and stuff.
None of them.
John Singleton is tired and broken. He should retire.
Dick Smith is too busy building a legacy for himself.
Nathan Tinkler got lucky in a mining boom.
James Packer inherited everything.
... and the last two, that's not an entrepreneur. They are entrepreneurs!!!
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gotta agree with king! this list is kinda sad. how about harry triguboff, richard pratt (i think he just died???), malcolm turnbull or even kevin rudd's missus. i guess rupert murdoch is out because he is a us citizen now.
Greg Norman would be the nations best sporting entrepreneur, and would be up there in the top realm of entrepreneur in the country.
What about some of the movie stars? Nicole Kidman. Russell Crowe. If they produce their own movies then that is entrepreneurial.
I'd have had Kerry Packer in there personally. Unafraid to court controversy (for those of you who are younger, his decision to break the apartheid boycott for sport in South Africa makes for great reading), Packer was ballsy guy who didn't mind ruffling a few feathers. In the modern age, he'd be a dinosaur. Back in his day, he was a forward-thinking genius who was years ahead of his time and it's no surprise that his legacy lives on. One-Tel aside, the man was a money printing machine until his unfortunate death in 2005.
yeah, but he is dead!Originally Posted by Dunworking
There goes my old age and senility again. I didn't realise we were talking about current entrepreneurs but Amanda has definitely mentioned that in the first post.
With that in mind, I'm going to plump for Murdoch. I know he's no longer an Australian, but you could argue that Hollywood has sapped the Aussie spirit from the likes of Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe as well. Like Kerry Packer, Murdoch is hardly a popular figure. However, his global stranglehold on the biggest sporting export in the world (English football) is incredible and he's made their game a money-making machine in places such as Malaysia, Thailand and Japan. Something the Brits couldn't do in over 100 years!
He might be American now, but I believe you are essentially what you are because of where you come from. Murdoch. Definitely.
Thanks for nice discussion on this topic. I will give my vote to Norman !!
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