Five entrepreneurs reveal why they stopped climbing the corporate ladder to launch their own start-ups.
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“I was working out my notice period, when this huge commitment hit that I had promised this woman I could grow Bumble in Australia and I’d never studied marketing or done events and I had no idea about PR.” It was during a year working in venture capital that the 27-year-old realised the start-up world may have been a better fit than her intended career path of investment banking.
“I learnt so much about solving business problems, but at the end of the day, I really wanted to see the outcome of the problems we solved,” she says.as a women’s health publishing house, after she was misdiagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome and infertility when she was 24. “We asked if they wanted a coffee and we thought they’d be impressed by the views of the Rocks and the harbour, and they whispered [that] to me,” he tells“I remember thinking these people don’t want expensive suits and expensive lawyers. They just want approachable people who can help with them their problems.”Solo, 32, spent nearly five years at Clayton Utz before he and his workmate Tomoyuki Hachigo decided to quit andwith the aim of making legal advice more affordable and accessible.
“At Clayton Utz, you’re working around exceptionally bright people, there’s this osmosis where you just pick things up and learn from them and see how they operate so almost in an apprenticeship sense, you pick up some of those skills.”and now employs 55 people, with plans to expand into other countries.“Both of us had done enough time as lawyers where we have a safety net if we need to go back and work, we can,” Solo says.
In about 2017, Nicolaides and his wife, who had their first child when Nicolaides was 31, set about planning for the investment professional to go it alone. By his own admission, Nicolaides is “very methodical”. The young couple sold their Sydney apartment to free up cash.
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