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The $1.6 Billion Founder: The Slow Decline of Australia Nobody Wants to Talk About & How We Win!

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Episode The $1.6 Billion Founder: The Slow Decline of Australia Nobody Wants to Talk About & How We Win!

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Charlie Gearside co-founded a $1.6 billion telehealth empire from scratch. No medical background, no blueprint, just a bet that Australians deserved better access to healthcare. But now he's turned his attention to something bigger, a cultural movement to remind Australia how to take risks again. This episode covers how Eucalyptus went from a $2 million Blackbird raise to a US acquisition, why Australia's business creation rate has been declining since the 1970s, and what Charlie is doing about it through Build Australia.

Learn more about Build Australia here: https://buildaustralia.com/

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