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We’ve been together from the start. From their first round which they held open long enough for us to raise our first fund. Today
@Canva
is worth $1b USD. This is a lifetime achievement & incredibly, just the beginning. Congrats Mel, Cliff, Cam & Canva
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Our first fund of $29m was raised only after 500+ meetings, 22 months and from 97 investors. This fund is now worth 10x and it continues to grow. Last week we returned $100m in capital to investors from this fund. Read all about it on our blog 🚀
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Today we’re refreshed to announce Blackbird Fund 3! This is just the beginning. We haven’t even reached base camp yet, and we’re honoured to continue backing Australia's most ambitious founders as they scale the mountain 🏔
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We wholeheartedly believe that the coming era for Australian and New Zealand startups will be our greatest yet.
In pursuit of this mission, we are pleased to announce Blackbird has raised A$1B to invest in generational companies born in ANZ.
Read more:
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We are excited to announce our fourth fund of A$500M. Thank you to the institutions and individuals who continue their belief in Blackbird’s mission. 🚀🐨🥝
Blackbird raises A$500m to invest in Aussie and Kiwi founders. Invested in Canva, Zoox
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Huge day for
@canva
! Congrats
@MelanieCanva
@cliffobrecht
@themaninblue
+ team on an incredible journey so far.
As
@rcsbaker
said, Canva is not just the best tech company in Australia at the moment, but one of the very best in the world. Onward! 🚀
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This is us officially doubling down on our belief in Kiwi Founders: raising a $28m fund for New Zealand. Opening an office in Auckland (headed up by
@holasammy
and
@tip_nz
). And our love letter to founders, The Sunrise, is coming to NZ
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🌅 Live in the Sunroom: dive into the world of digital collectables with
@DavidYuNZ
founder of
@veve_official
From forging alliances with the likes of Marvel and Pixar to letting creativity soar, David's journey is one for the books!
#MeetAtSunrise
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Incredible to see three founders we admire so much sharing their story and success today. Bravo to the 1,000+ team members
@canva
@CultureAmp
and
@SafetyCultureHQ
that stand behind these founders... So proud ☺️
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What a first decade indeed! In ten years, our portfolio companies:
💜 are worth more than $70B
👪 employ 7,500 people
📈 generate almost $3B/year in revenue.
What a first decade. Excited for the coming ones and thank you to all of those who have made Blackbird so very special 💜
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We exist to Supercharge Australia’s most ambitious founders 🚀 Here are our cultural values:
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Elated. Excited. Proud. Fully stoked.
@holasammy
is now a Partner at Blackbird. The world will never be the same!
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Thank you
@michaeljbaile
for helping us to tell this story. This is a new inflection point for
#startupaus
and we are proud of how far we have all come.
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What an honour to spend time with PM
@jacindaardern
in Melbourne today to talk about the opportunity ahead for startups in New Zealand. Thanks to
@NZTEnews
for making it happen. 🇳🇿 🇳🇿 🇳🇿
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We’re excited to announce that Robyn Denholm has joined Blackbird as an Operating Partner to help our most ambitious late-stage companies reach their beautiful potential. 💜
Read more:
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To top off a huge day for Blackbird,
@rcsbaker
shared an exclusive look at our books with the
@FinancialReview
and
@michaeljbaile
, revealing our 2013 fund has turned the $27.9 million originally paid into it into a net total value of $332 million. 🚀
The Sydney-based venture capital firm raised the record-breaking fund while revealing a 9200 per cent return on a single investment from its first fund.
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Huge news for Aussie startups!
Congratulations to the team at
@canva
on closing a $US60M round on a valuation of $US6B (AUD$8.6B).
We are proud to be part of this latest round of financing along with
@Sequoia
,
@Felicis
,
@bondcap
,
@GCVP
. 👏🚀
Fun scoop turned exclusive about Australia’s largest private technology business! Also one of the largest female-founded businesses with
@MelanieCanva
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.
@startmate
is running a climate cohort in 2020. We need bold ideas, daring founders and we need to work together.
Join us,
@mcannonbrookes
@SquarePegCap
@airtreevc
and help address the
#ClimateCrisis
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On Friday afternoon the Blackbird team agreed not to post in our Slack channels from Friday night to Monday morning. It was a big success, so we're now committing to No Slack Weekends 🔕🔇What 'weekend switch off' ideas have you tried with your teams? We'd love to know.
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It’s time to see the best minds of this generation create the brightest, wildest future for the next.⚡️
We’re on the hunt for the boldest, greenest talent in Australia and New Zealand’s universities to participate in our inaugural startup ideas competition, Wild Futures.
👇🧵
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We are excited to announce the launch of our first podcast, Wild Hearts. We’ll uncover the real stories of founders and the investors who’ve backed them from the beginning. Subscribe, listen, share 🚀💥
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1/ 500 invested in Blackbird & we counted Dave as a friend. We’re hugely disappointed to learn of his unacceptable behaviour towards women.
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Big news -
@Bugcrowd
just announced a $26M Series C.
@caseyjohnellis
came up with the original idea for Bugcrowd on a flight from Melbourne to Sydney in 2012. Soon after he applied for
@startmate
and began the journey. Congrats to the whole team!
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We are excited to lift the lid on a few things here at Blackbird 📈🚀
As
@rcsbaker
and
@nikiscevak
shared with
@SaysSmithy
, this is just the beginning, and the ultimate destination is when the top companies in Australia are technology companies:
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Huge congrats to our friends over at
@SquarePegCap
. Such great news for the Aussie ecosystem. Founders be like 🤑
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Blackbird Fund 3 - available now for Australia’s most ambitious founders. We’ve written down our Master Plan and some of our ideas behind this fund. Read all about it on our blog -
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Announcing our investment in nano-satellite startup, Fleet. Welcome to the dawn of a new Australian space industry
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"It took Shopify, Box & Twilio between one year and three years to lift ARR from $US1m to $US10m. Canva started in August 2013 and achieved $10 million in revenue in three years."
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When you see one of your portfolio companies on a bill board, time for a new team photo
@nurasound
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Last week we welcomed a new cohort to
@startmate
. Makers, bot builders, habit horders and designers of workplace diversity. Welcome to Startmate 2018 Sydney!
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"The most glorious thing you can do as an entrepreneur is to build a company that creates jobs people love, a product that fundamentally makes the world a better place, that continues to recharge your passion every single day and gets you excited about going to work"
@zachklein
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Meet Roman Teslyuk. Founder of Earth AI. Geologist from the Ukraine and Russia. And the first person in Australia to receive a Business Innovation and Investment (Provisional) visa (subclass 188) Entrepreneur Stream visa 🚀
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Blackbird is hiring an Operating Partner to help our most ambitious late-stage companies reach their beautiful potential. This is a Partner role, meaning you will become the sixth partner at Blackbird.🌟🚀 Find out more and apply now:
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Congrats and lots of celebratory emojis to
@annie_parker
-
@Microsoft
's new Global Head of Startups!! 👏🏼🔥🙏🏻🎉
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We've committed to safeguarding our team’s emotional wellbeing in the future by amending our parental leave policy to include stillbirth and neonatal death.
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Proud as punch to see our Operating Partner Robyn Denholm and Chairman
@mcannonbrookes
recognised as top technology leaders by
@FinancialReview
🐐🌟
👀 Full list out Friday:
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Brand new wall art at Blackbird HQ! We're the embarrassingly proud parents at Eisteddfods 😅
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Welcome to the (new) world of Blackbird!! We’ve got a whole new look - it’s raw, creative and full of energy, and it symbolises our ambition to progress Australian and New Zealand culture.
🧵 1/4
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2/ We stand with the women who have exposed harassment. We are appalled that this behaviour has pervaded the industry we all love so much.
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Tobi Pearce is one of Australia's most successful Founders. He left home at 16, lived rough, became a personal trainer & w/ his co-founder
@kayla_itsines
built a fitness app called
@Sweat
. 5 years on Sweat has $100m in ARR 🔥. Dive deep w/ him at Sunrise
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What an incredible thing.
@PropellerAero
have had an amazing 12 months and this is just the start. Not budging from our front row seat 🍿🚀
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Today we announce our first two speakers for Sunrise North Island. Drum roll please for
@MelanieCanva
Co-founder of
@canva
and
@Peter_J_Beck
, Founder of
@RocketLab
. Get your tickets right now
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3/ We will fight to rid our industry of this unacceptable behaviour.
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Big news! With full hearts, we're launching the Blackbird Foundation (
@foundationbyBB
). Our mission is to supercharge creativity in young people. Read more about our plan and apply for funding
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We're bummed out by the gender split on our Portfolio Analyst position, so we are extending applications for the job until next Tuesday evening. If you are a diverse candidate and want to work with Australia's best startups please apply:
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✨ We're hiring a Head of People & Culture to help make Blackbird the best place to work in Australia & New Zealand 🚀
Learn more and apply:
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We have some exciting news to share with you.
@joelconnolly
has been promoted to Creative Director 👨🏻🎨 and our new Head of Community is
@Dani_Pinkus
💥 This is an exciting time in the evolution of Blackbird and we are thrilled to make these appointments 👏👏👏
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Applications for
@startmate
are open now. Starting a company is the highest expression of your talent -
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Finally! Baraja have come out of stealth mode! This is their point cloud. Photons fly out their LiDAR then it records how they bounce back. The result is a complex 3D map which self driving cars use to see the world around them.
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Announcing Sunrise Island 2018. September 12. Cockatoo Island.
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Blackbird Melbourne is beefing up! New office, new team member and
@nickcrocker
in search of some wild hearts to invest in.
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"We don’t have Dadpreneurs, Man Boss’s, HE-E-O's".
@gabyvhoward
on the being called a 'mumpreneur' -
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Announcing our $200m second fund to invest in the moonshots of Australian entrepreneurship
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Convinced you need a financial background to get into VC? Think again.
💥 "History is littered with VCs who have come from the most unlikely of backgrounds" says
@holasammy
"including startup operators, journalists and podcasters”
🔮 Read on
@startmate
:
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Congrats
@MelanieCanva
! You inspire us all. And to think, you're only just getting started 🔥
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A huge thank you to our army of Blackbird and
@startmate
vollies for keeping our Sunrise travellers happy last week (this isn't even all of them!) We could not have delivered
#sunrise22
without you 🥹💖
Keep your eyes peeled for the official photo gallery coming soon... 👀
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"No university spinouts. No Perth stockbrokers." - This is what we're looking for in 2017
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Blackbirds grabbing a bite to eat before
@_southstart
this morning incl.
@GilmourAdam
,
@Ajay_Prakash27
+
@hollyccc
☕️
You'll find us at State of the Startup today - come say hi! 👋
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In 2016 we made 35 investments worth $85MM. Biggest cheque was $27MM. Smallest was $41k. Our full year here -
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Last nights
@startmate
demo day was all time. If you missed out, scrub that fomo away and get yourself down to Melbourne -
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👩🔬Research-led companies will cornerstone the solutions to humanity's greatest problems…
Are you a researcher, PhD student, Fellow or passionate science student trying to solve hard problems and have a great impact? 🔬
🚨 Apply for Foundry here:
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Congratulations Andy, Michael and the whole team from
@MorseMicro
! You’ve achieved so much since
@startmate
and to think, the best is yet to come.
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🌅 SUNRISE IS COMING 🌅
Yep, our startups festival is BACK and this year, we’re bringing the vibes to Auckland and Sydney.
🧵
#sunrise22
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Introducing a Model Code of Conduct for the Australian Startup Community -
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🇦🇺 🥰 🇳🇿
Blackbird flies across the Tasman
The venture capital fund wants to establish itself in the local startup community and invest $30 million in what it calls a capital-starved eco-system.
To follow this story, subscribe to the NBR:
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Co-Founder and CEO of
@CultureAmp
,
@didierelzinga
, just upped the level of inspiration in the room.
#sunrise17
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Thank you to all the Australian students who led us today at the
#ClimateStrike
. You are inspiring and we hope we don’t let you down. From
#Melbourne
,
#Sydney
and
#Orange
#notbusinessasusual
❤️🌏
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"You have to believe in what you're doing before anyone else will". Melanie Perkins, CEO and Co-founder of
@canva
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🐐
Canva Uncovered: How A Young Australian Kitesurfer Built A $3.2 Billion (Profitable!) Startup Phenom
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We're on the hunt for our sixth partner here at Blackbird. If you’re as obsessed as we are about building an iconic investment firm - and can build great relationships with founders - apply here:
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"Culture is like concrete. When it is first laid out, it is malleable and can take many shapes. However, after some time, it will harden and then it’s very hard to change." Questions to ask a CEO to ensure a healthy company culture
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We've teamed up with
@startmate
to host a fireside chat with
@justinkan
, co-founder of
@Twitch
+ host of
@thequest_pod
next Thursday 8 April! 🎉
💡 Hear about Justin's journey, his advice for early stage founders and how to find and pursue your purpose:
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Congratulations
@airwallex
! What an incredible achievement and so early in your journey. The whole of the Australian startup community is cheering you on.
It’s official – Airwallex is the world’s latest fintech unicorn, valued at +$1bn USD!
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"Your pitch deck should be 8-10 slides. Decks are reviewed in 20 seconds or less, so you want to capture the investor's imagination in this time."
Here's a must-watch Giants Weekly replay on pitch decks with
@batkomichael
of
@startmate
. 💫
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It's not too late for
#IWD2020
, right? Women of Blackbird representing this afternoon, minus our Principal
@tip_nz
and Partner
@holasammy
in Auckland. 🙌
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"The name Kate is irrelevant to how I would perform at a tech company". Excited to announce our investment in
@beapplied
, who are building software that removes bias from job applications
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"Say yes, especially when it's a two-way door. Most decisions you make are reversible. If you're really honest with yourself, most things that feel like huge risks actually aren't that big,"
@DoctorJodieA
, Regional GM APAC,
@UberEats
at this morning's Liminal conference keynote.
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Super funds back biggest-ever Australian tech venture fund worth $200 million
http://t.co/sUFz190Iam
via
@FinancialReview
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"The venture capital outfit, which owns a 14 per cent stake in Canva – more than any other investor – is the largest in Australia, having committed more than $1.24bn in funds."
Australian 'unicorn maker'
@blackbirdvc
has closed a $500m fund led by the Future Fund, Australian Super and Telstra Super, with Mike Cannon-Brookes to become its chairman
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Welcome Home, Travellers! Sunrise is back and it’s going to be bigger than ever: two days uniting our Aussie and Kiwi startup community under one (big) roof.
28-29 October, 2021.
Want tickets? Sign up here:
#sunrise21
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Great to see friends raising new early stage funds over the past couple of weeks, from
@franklykylie
+
@rneumann6826
's
@flyingfoxvc
angel fund 🦊 to
@Alberts_Impact
's new impact investing fund 🌿
Good for everyone, but particularly those at the very beginning 💪🏔
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"The future of food is one of the big problems facing humanity. We already use two-thirds of the world's land mass to feed the world's existing population". And we continue down the rabbit hole with our investment in
@SunfedMeats
.
New from me today: Bull free beef and chicken free chicken $10m investment by
@blackbirdvc
and Chris Hadley in
@SunfedMeats
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Life's work! This is Francis, co-founder of
@PropellerAero
. He got married on the weekend & a
@DJIGlobal
Phantom 4 delivered the rings.
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"10 years from now, if you walk into the supermarket or a restaurant, no matter which country you're in, you're going to have an option of eating cultured meat." Our next Wild Hearts podcast episode with
@TNoakesmith
and
@peppsyd
, cofounders of
@vowfood
, is now live. 🥩
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We're piling in!
@SafetyCultureHQ
continues to make history, and it's a privilege to play but a small part of what will be one of the great Australian business stories.
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🚀 Are you at the very beginning of your founder journey? We're in the process of building something new for the wildest of hearts, right at the very beginning and would love to get your opinion. DM us if you're keen 🌈
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"Canva is slightly cheaper than Atlassian (19 times) on a run rate revenue multiple, and much cheaper than the enterprise value-to-current-revenue multiples that investors are paying for WiseTech (26.5 times) or AfterPay (33.5 times)." 🔥🔥🔥
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This is the whole point ❤️❤️❤️
Most heartwarming moment of the day -
@jodiefox
signing her book for a highschooler who bounced her startup idea of Jodie 🥰🥰🥰
@blackbirdvc
#Sunrise2019
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Trivia:
@nikiscevak
ran the numbers recently and found we've made more than 300 individual investments since our very first close - an investment every nine days.
With our fourth fund in action, we're not slowing down any time soon.🚀
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With every challenge, comes the opportunity for greatness.
We are pleased to announce our FREE online conference, Giants! Hear stories of grit and ingenuity from world-class operators and founders. 27 April-1 May💪Registration for sessions now open.
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