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HUMILITY
LEADING WITH OTHERS IN MIND
Entrepreneur and designer Collis Ta’eed is an unusually humble man. In a Sydney garage, alongside his wife, Cyan, and business partner Jun Rung, Collis built an online marketplace. Fast forward more than fifteen years and their company, Envato, has quietly become one of the creative world’s most influential companies.
With a community of almost one million users, more than US$1 billion paid in earnings to community members and with more than 700 employees, Envato is a technology unicorn. It is a textbook example of how to build a business. Literally. The story of Envato’s success is used as a case study for high school students.
Collis and Cyan have never let their commercial success define them. They are ...
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