Leaders, Innovators & Disruptors event with David Shein | The Dumbest Guy at the Table - How I founded Australia's first unicorn

Join David Shein, Parter of Our Innovation Fund, to find out how he founded Australia's first unicorn. 

Twenty-one years after selling the company that David founded, Com Tech Communications, for an enterprise value of over $1 billion – arguably Australia’s first tech unicorn – David decided to write a book.

Drawing on over three decades of experience and sharing some lessons that will hopefully provide valuable advice to anyone looking to start a company. Since 1987 David has hired hundreds of outstanding people, knowing that if he paid well, listened to their valuable ideas and ensured that they loved coming to work every day, he could still be part of something great … even if he is the dumbest guy at the table.

These basic principles have formed the basis of David’s management style for over 30 years. So much has changed from a technology perspective – yet, in some ways, nothing has changed. Products come and go. But you will always have customers, staff and business partners. How you treat these three constituents will be the difference between building a good company, a great company, an irrelevant company or one that simply disappears.

This is an in-person event and will not be streamed or recorded.