This CEO knows what it is like to lose everything

When Temple & Webster chief Mark Coulter was a teenager his father’s business collapsed. “We lost houses and cars and everything else.”

Sally PattenBOSS editor

Sep 1, 2023 – 5.00am

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At the age of 14 , Mark Coulter’s life took an unexpected, and dramatic, turn. It was the mid-1990s and his father was running a financial services company. But it went bust.

“He made a lot of money and lost a lot of money during the ’90s,” recalls Coulter, co-founder and chief executive of online furniture retailer Temple & Webster.

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Sally PattenBOSS editorSally Patten edits BOSS, and writes about workplace issues. She was the financial services editor and personal finance editor of the AFR, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. She edited business news for The Times of London.