Q for over 12 years. Join us every week to fast track your personal growth so you can meet the ever increasing demands of the company or companies you are passionately building. Time waits for no one, so let's get started now. So before we get any further, why don't you tell everyone a little bit about what you did that put you in the position to be doing this now?
A Thanks for having me, Sean. Yeah. So I left university, you know, back in 2002 and, you know, sort of set out on an entrepreneurial path, did a marketing consultancy, and I sort of merged that business into a something that focused on natural health. And then I merged in with some other partners into a online directory at the time. So, uh, we ran like the natural therapy pages and home improvement pages, which were like Essentially better yellow pages at that time, you know, we're sort of talking like mid 2000. So, so that was the extent of it. As we grew, we grew it to be, you know, an on demand service for trades. People was our biggest size, the home improvement space. It's very similar to for the American audience, very similar to home advisor, basically the same business model. So we're connecting consumers with contractors and we're doing it through apps and technology and, you know, making that data seamless as possible. So look, we grew that IPO on the Australian stock exchange in November last year, and then we had a market capitalization of three hundred and fifteen million dollars. So that was obviously very exciting for myself. I left operational duties about two and a bit years before that, but still maintained a stake in the company. So I enjoyed that IPO. I went through different stages of like investing in the company and then starting to diversify from the comp…
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