Build It. They'll Come.

Entrepreneurial Fund Manager Geoff Wilson AO, founder & CIO of Wilson Asset Management, on Being a Maverick, Outspoken ShareholderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“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.

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.

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.

In Part 1, How self-described tech nerd Michael Cameron and his mate, co-founder Bernie Tschirren transformed their travel frustrations into a multi-million dollar business. And this humble idea was built up, from scratch, in Michael's folks' living room in suburban Melbourne, to become the massive global travel disruptor and innovator, Rome2rio.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Billionaire Gerry Harvey admits to massive Fails; and how he runs a true gender-equal life and leadership team with wife & CEO Katie Page; and the absolute key to building a businessSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey built not one, but two business empires out of the ashes of a traumatic family twist of fate in childhood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.