The leaders, builders, pioneers, and stirrers who The Australian Financial Review picked out on its 50th anniversary back in 2013 were all entrepreneurs in spirit or in fact who frequently created something from nothing and shaped not just the economy, but the country, too.

The current Rich List and the Young Rich List follow in the same tradition, and at the Financial Review’s Entrepreneur Summit yesterday, another host of entrepreneurs, founders, and start-up veterans brought a perceptible energy to the stage.