![]() ![]() Only Obrecht appeared slightly sheepish about the whole evening, seemingly stuck in a hall of mirrors. I’m actually quite emotional,” the journalist said, standing before a cinema of Canva and Safet圜ulture employees. “I think everyone is very inspired by that. ![]() They are literally changing the world.Īt the end of the screening, Anear, Perkins and Obrecht sauntered to the front to be interviewed by Sarah O’Carroll, editor-in-chief of Forbes Australia – the new entrant to the business media landscape that appears wholly willing to act as state media for tech. They can make movies, solve climate change, global hunger. They have domain expertise that extends well beyond simply coding, or workplace software, or design. They are a homeopathic remedy – take one drop of their sweat, add it to a swimming pool of water and spray it around. That successful founders are not only business owners, but unique geniuses. Venture capital and start-ups have long rallied around the cult of the founder. Blackbird’s Rick Baker, an investor in both companies, is the other tech sage who appears throughout. It’s the kind of thing that makes for profound LinkedIn broetry … but let’s be real, it means nothing at all. Referring to Anear, Farquhar turns to George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.” “Her special skill is her passion for changing the world.” “Mel has a youthful naivety that is amazing,” the Atlassian co-founder says. It turns out the reflection staring back at them is Scott Farquhar in a Patagonia gilet. More than anything else, Founder gives a glimpse at how the country’s tech elite see themselves, like a magical mirror that shows someone their deepest desires. Anear and his young daughter talking about the toll start-ups take on families is the realest it gets. But with access and archival footage, the series caps the main plot points of the businesses, whose returns have been a boon for VCs and super funds over the past decade. It’s easy to dismiss the whole thing as a circle-jerk. I think that’s why I consider myself a proactive perfectionist.” Perkins offers the self-assessment: “Sometimes when you’re a perfectionist you won’t take a first step. ![]() “Innovation comes from a deep dissatisfaction with the world somehow,” Anear says in his episode. The Canva episode opens with Perkins reading an inspirational quote she’s saved in her iPhone. “When a car is on the edge of control, that’s like running a company,” Anear narrates. He made a feature doco called The New Hustle in 2017, featuring himself, his Canva buds and loss-making plonk seller Vinomofo.Īnear’s episode opens with the burly Queenslander driving a rally car through Australian scrub. It’s also not the first time Anear has produced a film about the same subject. It’s something that other tech founders and VCs in Silicon Valley have recently tried – and mostly failed at – as an attempt to circumvent the fourth estate and document their own stories, using the platforms they themselves built. Subscribers will need to pay $2 to watch, which suggests the streamers did not pick up the production to exclusively license. Rather than these vignettes being commissioned (or shot or edited or produced) by Apple, Amazon or Google, the episodes are part of a self-saucing passion project of Anear, who set up Founder Films – his own production company – to make the series. Founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht from Canva and Luke Anear at Safet圜ulture were part of the premiere for a four-part docuseries they star in, filling the seats with employees and a few journalists.įounder will be released on streaming services this week and sets aside 45 minutes per episode to tell the origin stories of each start-up, plus Brighte’s Katherine McConnell and crypto shiller Fred Schebesta.Ĭliff Obrecht in a screengrab from “Founder”. Canva and Safet圜ulture – two of this country’s most successful start-ups – booked out a Hoyts cinema at Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter on Wednesday night. ![]()
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