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Afterpay duo’s digital innovation the biggest deal

The 2021 Business Person of the Year acknowledges the founders of the buy now, pay later platform that’s given its name to a whole new class of business.

Dec 10, 2021 – 5.00am

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Over 2021, The Australian Financial Review has been celebrating 70 years of reporting on the leaders, builders, pioneers and stirrers of Australian business who created this nation’s modern prosperity.

Anthony Eisen and Nick Molnar, the Financial Review’s joint 2021 Business Person of the Year, sold their buy now, pay later start-up Afterpay in August for $39 billion, more than any Australian company has ever fetched. It puts them among the pioneers of Australian business.

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