Something ventured, something gained
It doesn’t come much better for a young, entrepreneurially minded person than to snare a job with perhaps Australia’s best-known backer of start-ups, Square Peg. Casey Flint is living a dream. Her role includes helping entrepreneurs to shake up entrenched cultural norms between senior business managers and their employees. Square Peg’s co-founder, Paul Bassat, made his first fortune by starting one of Australia’s best-known disrupters, the online jobs site SEEK. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, therefore, that he is now bankrolling new ideas that give bosses the means to turbocharge their employees’ worth.
“This is quite a new space,” says Flint, “and our investments are all in early-stage companies. They are either just developing or putting out their products now.”
How does it fit with the many other strands of endeavour that Square Peg
