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The real cost of being a Young Rich founder

The real cost of being a Young Rich founder

Many successful entrepreneurs are glad they didn’t know what they were in for before taking a rocky, albeit rewarding path.

Advanced Navigation co-founder Chris Shaw, a Young Rich debutant. His company’s robotics are set to be used by a NASA contractor. “Everyone in the office will be staying up to watch that,” he says.  Louie Douvis

Yolanda RedrupRich List Editor

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Chris Eigeland has been on the Financial Review Young Rich List for four years. He’s worth an estimated $220 million. But if you see him around the streets of Logan, Queensland, you will find him driving a beat-up Mazda 3.

The co-founder and CEO of the $3 billion education technology company Go1, which he started with school friends in 2015, admits that until the company is sold or goes public in a float, his day-to-day life is pretty ordinary.

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Yolanda RedrupRich List EditorYolanda Redrup is the editor of the AFR Rich List. She previously reported on technology, healthcare and Street Talk. Connect with Yolanda on Twitter. Email Yolanda at yolanda.redrup@afr.com

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