{"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":"
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 Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and iTunes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian tech entrepreneurs are shining bright in this year’s BRW Young Rich list, which recognises the nation’s wealthiest individuals aged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n