How I Made It

Growing up, Janine Allis never thought about starting her own business. “I didn’t even know what an entrepreneur was,” she says.
But after spotting a gap in the market, there was no stopping the founder of a now-global smoothie company that’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
On the final episode of season five of How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how the Boost Juice owner became one of Australia’s top business leaders.
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Since she was a little girl, Flavia Tata Nardini was obsessed with space.
The Italian-born rocket scientist began her career at the European Space Agency but moved to Adelaide in her 20s, where she found herself confronted with a lack of industry.
Left with no other choice, she started her own business.
On this week's episode of How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how the CEO of Fleet Space Technologies reignited Australia’s space industry – and built an $800 million company.
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Vikas Rambal came to Australia from India on a prospective business trip in 2000. But the project he was looking into was not what it seemed.
It was a moment on his five-day trip that would prove to be pivotal.
On this week’s episode of How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup finds out how a scam and a chance encounter set about the Perdaman Group founder’s dream to build the country’s largest fertiliser plant.
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Chris Lucas grew up in the world of hospitality, often spending time in his dad’s pub in Geelong.
But it wasn’t until his mid-30s that one of the country’s top restaurateurs entered the industry himself.
On this week’s episode of How I Made It, host Lauren Sams finds out how working at IBM as a sales and marketing executive inspired Lucas to become one of the biggest figures in the hospitality industry.
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Leading Australia’s largest airline is by all accounts a dream job.
But in 2012, Bruce Buchanan – who was on track to become chief executive of Qantas – walked away from the national carrier. He now runs one of the world’s hottest tech companies: $7.2 billion e-commerce marketing tech firm Rokt.
This week on How I Made It, Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup pulls back the curtain to find out how this former aviation executive built a company that became a giant of the tech world.
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