{"id":38547,"date":"2023-10-20T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/tech-entrepreneurs-cyan-taeed-and-melanie-perkins-recognised-in-brws-young-rich-list-ahead-of-supermodel-miranda-kerr-and-grammy-winner-sia-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:57:15","slug":"tech-entrepreneurs-cyan-taeed-and-melanie-perkins-recognised-in-brws-young-rich-list-ahead-of-supermodel-miranda-kerr-and-grammy-winner-sia-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/tech-entrepreneurs-cyan-taeed-and-melanie-perkins-recognised-in-brws-young-rich-list-ahead-of-supermodel-miranda-kerr-and-grammy-winner-sia-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech entrepreneurs Cyan Ta’eed and Melanie Perkins recognised in BRW’s Young Rich List ahead of supermodel Miranda Kerr and Grammy-winner Sia – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian tech entrepreneurs are shining bright in this year’s BRW Young Rich list, which recognises the nation’s wealthiest individuals aged under 41.<\/p>\n

Obliterating\u00a0the list in top spot are Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar with $4.6 billion in combined estimated wealth.<\/p>\n

Envato co-founder Cyan Ta’eed, worth an estimated $184 million with fellow co-founder Collis Ta’eed, and Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins, worth an estimated $124 million with co-founder Cliff Obrecht, made\u00a0the top 20, well ahead of supermodel Miranda Kerr and Grammy-winner Sia Furler.<\/p>\n

Vinomofo co-founder Justin Dry, worth an estimated $30 million, also ranked in the top 100, giving savvy startup founders building great tech solutions a sign of what may lie ahead.<\/p>\n

But the humble beginnings of many of these founders and their underlying mission to add real value<\/a> to the world is\u00a0is what makes their success so sweet.<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0StartupSmart<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Ta’eed said she and partner Collis Ta’eed put everything on the line and lived in her parents’ basement when they first started building\u00a0Envato.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack when we started and we said we were launching an online business, people would say \u2018what?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

This year, they celebrated Envato’s 10th birthday and to date,\u00a0its members have generated\u00a0$400 million in earnings<\/a>\u00a0worldwide.<\/p>\n

“When the community succeeds, we as a business succeed,” Ta’eed\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Here’s a round up of\u00a0home-grown startup founders\u00a0in\u00a0BRW’s Young Rich 2016<\/a>‘s top 25 and their estimated wealth:<\/p>\n