Trophies and sequins as Australia’s business leaders gonged

A $70,000 Rolex and a sequined jacket show life is sweet for the victors, though the path isn’t always smooth.

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Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano

Updated Dec 5, 2024 – 6.20pm, first published at 10.02am

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The road to success isn’t smooth, as any founder would attest.

Robin Khuda’s Airtrunk success came with a cash crunch, solved by the judicious early release of some of his superannuation. Was it totally kosher? No, it was “naughty”. And as he admitted on stage at the The Australian Financial Review Business People of the Year awards on Wednesday night, he’s had “a letter about that”.

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Myriam RobinSenior writerMyriam Robin is a senior writer based in the Melbourne newsroom. She has previously been a Rear Window columnist and editor, and before that reported on financial markets and media.

Mark Di StefanoColumnistMark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent.