Olympia Yarger says there’s a good business in rubbish. Her battle to raise millions of dollars is nothing compared to what she has been through to get here.
Olympia Yarger, the chief executive of Goterra, at her company’s waste facility in Canberra. Alex Ellinghausen
There’s good money to be made in garbage, and Olympia Yarger is not afraid to get her hands dirty to make it.
The former sheep farmer has been a star turn on the local start-up event circuit since her company Goterra was founded almost 10 years ago. But getting the local venture capital crowd to back her vision has not been easy.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/technology/can-our-most-loved-least-funded-founder-turn-garbage-into-gold-20241203-p5kvem
