Build It. They'll Come.
Candid interviews with successful Self-starters. On Build It. They'll Come, you'll hear from some amazing Australian entrepreneurs who bet big to build great businesses. Journalist Helen Dalley interviews business innovators and visionaries on how they turned their lightbulb idea into a viable, sustainable enterprise.
This podcast is about the human face behind taking a simple idea and turning it into a business or movement. It's the beating heart behind what it takes to build an empire, from concept to execution, and how they actually achieve it. Fuelled by blind faith and hard slog, how they transform their dream idea into concrete reality.
Latest episodes
Apr 26, 2020 • 46min
COVID-19 SPECIAL, 3DMEDiTech entrepreneur Paul Docherty on how his small but advanced manufacturing startup is massively pivoting to help battle the germ war, by manufacturing here in Australia much needed COVID-19 "weapons"
3D-printing entrepreneur Paul Docherty speaks about HOW his small advanced medical manufacturing facility is currently trialling their new 3D-printed swabs for much-needed Covid-19 tests, in conjunction with the Doherty Institute and University of Melbourne, to test the swab’s efficacy, and await TGA approval. 3DMEDiTech is also 3D-printing parts for the crucial breathing ventilators, all part of a collaborative approach by governments to get the best medical and business know-how together to make essential medical tools right here in Australia, to combat this disease.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 19, 2020 • 24min
In Part 2, Modibodi's Kristy Chong's values of being customer, customer, customer-centric, innovative and a data analysis freak are what drive her & her team, & produce results.
Making it onto Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 List for 2019 shows just how rapidly Kristy Chong’s baby, Modibodi reusable leak-proof underwear, is growing: from a humble start-up 7 yrs ago to a global star. But what really drives this young entrepreneur is giving customers what they want & need: a solution to personal hygiene leaks and spills, and a solution to the billions of fem hygiene tampons and pads dumped in landfill globally each year. Modibodi’s turnover is now close to $50million a year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 11, 2020 • 35min
Modibodi founder Kristy Chong got the impetus to create her leak-proof underwear after suffering light incontinence while running the Seattle Marathon! She then built her start-up, literally piece by piece, from her kitchen table.
New mum Kristy Chong wanted to solve an everyday, often embarrassing, problem for women, & men, without the massive amounts of disposable personal hygiene products eventually being dumped in landfill. With passion & perseverance she created revolutionary underwear that promises to soak up leaks, periods and perspiration, building Modibodi into an empire growing recently by up to 400% a year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 4, 2020 • 47min
COVID-19 SPECIAL, Virus Expert Prof Dominic Dwyer on how doctors are Building a Battle Campaign to beat this Germ War; and How we can help
Highly experienced virus & infectious diseases specialist Professor Dominic Dwyer who’s working on the frontline at Westmead Hospital, talks plainly about where we are at with COVID-19, & what are the crucial weapons in the fight to diagnose, treat and stop the spread of this virus & disease, that ALL of us in the community MUST engage in, & what he is worried about. Prof Dwyer also explodes some of the Internet myths & tips on exactly what kills the virus. Calm, knowledgeable and ultimately optimistic, take a listen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 29, 2020 • 41min
In Part 2, Buildcorp's Tony & Josephine Sukkar reckon full transparency with their 350 employees builds trust, as well as buildings!
How entrepreneurial Tony & Josephine Sukkar’s hands-on approach to everything -- from interviewing every cadet to negotiating massive building contracts – built their empire. But it also boosted their ability to agitate for gender equality and changen not only on building sites but in one of our oldest sports, Rugby Union! Hear how Josephine was instrumental in pushing rugby to establish the Women’s competition, Super W!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 22, 2020 • 41min
Buildcorp founders Tony & Josephine Sukkar forged an empire out of adversity: a former employer's corporate collapse helped build their resilience & teamwork, foundation stone of their future success.
Fleeing civil war in Lebanon as a teen, while protecting his younger siblings, made Tony Sukkar AM resilient and ready for any crisis, later forging a construction empire out of his former employer’s corporate collapse.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 15, 2020 • 11min
BREAKOUT
Entrepreneurial Fund Manager Geoff Wilson AO, founder & CIO of Wilson Asset Management, on Being a Maverick, Outspoken ShareholderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 8, 2020 • 40min
Wilson Asset Management - Geoff Wilson AO, Founder, Chair & Chief Investment Officer
“Fundie” whizz Geoff Wilson bet big to back his financial judgement at just under 40 years of age: HOW he took his life savings of $500,000 & turned them into a massive business investing and growing other people’s money. 21 years later he now has $3.5 billion in funds under management. And find out just how much of a factor in that success was running a book on the Caulfield Cup, as a schoolboy?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 1, 2020 • 44min
Ginger & Smart fashion brand - Alexandra Smart, Co-Founder
How being retrenched pushed entrepreneurial Alexandra Smart to create a start-up fashion label with her sister, that grew into Ginger & Smart, a high-end designer brand & retail business, now sold around Australia and the world. “We thought, if we work this hard, and kill ourselves for someone else, let’s do it for ourselves.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 23, 2020 • 28min
In Part 2, "Rogue child" Tech Entrepreneur Michael Cameron reckons he's a "bit unemployable"! The Rome2rio Co-founder on HOW he Created a "Cockroach"!
In Part 2 of Helen’s chat with travel website Rome2rio’s co-founder, Michael Cameron, he details HOW he turned his simple frustration into an idea then into concrete reality, disrupting online travel along the way and building a globally reknowned website business, in less than a decade; a shining example of an Aussie start-up that now claims a staggering 18 million unique visitors per MONTH. It was recently sold for $40million!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
