May 2024
Rich Listers sell tech firm Envato for $375m
It was once valued at more than $1 billion, but Cyan and Collis Ta’eed have sold their digital assets marketplace to New York-listed Shutterstock.
- Tess Bennett
June 2022
Rich Listers’ Envato lays off 100 staff and rejigs product focus
The redundancies come during great uncertainty in the technology sector, with many ASX listed tech stocks sold off 30 per cent or more in the past six months.
- Yolanda Redrup
June 2021
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Tech unicorn Envato cools IPO talk after restructure
Rich Listers Collis and Cyan Ta’eed will appoint external independent directors after bringing on a new CEO, as they set the company up to thrive without them.
- Sally Patten
August 2020
Rich Lister Envato founder to step down amid record profit share
The co-founder of the Melbourne-based seller of digital assets, worth more than $1 billion on some measures, will step down as chief executive at the end of 2020.
- Michael Bailey
February 2020
What to do when imposter syndrome strikes
Imposter syndrome is more common than you might think. Even Rich Listers Cyan Ta'eed and Mike Cannon-Brookes suffer from it. Here's what to do when it strikes.
- Natasha Boddy
October 2019
Young Rich List wealth almost doubles to $41.2b
The wealthiest self-made young Australians are growing their businesses at a rate that is challenging legacy ASX companies.
- Michael Bailey
Young Rich Lister Cyan Ta'eed has tips for women
The Envato co-founder, one of nine women on 2019's list of the self-made wealthy aged under 41, says more women leaders of all kinds are needed as role models.
- Michael Bailey
How Envato succeeded without external investors
The garage start-up Cyan and Collis Ta'eed founded has grown to be a global powerhouse worth $1.1 billion. Now the Young Rich Listers are giving back plenty of the proceeds.
- Michael Bailey
May 2019
Australia's 200 richest people revealed
Property remains the main vehicle by which fortunes are made. But those in tech are easily the quickest builders of wealth in a record-breaking Financial Review Rich List.
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- Michael Bailey