Mike Smith

Mike Smith
Founder, Zero Co

I'm a small town, public-school kid from the North Coast of NSW. I grew up surfing, playing basketball and making noise on a guitar. After school I moved to Sydney and studied commerce at UNSW. After that I got a job with an advertising agency. It took me 3yrs to figure out that wasn't what I wanted to do with my life. So I quit my well-paying job and joined the ranks of the gainfully unemployed.

Since then I've been involved as a founder and sometimes-investor to a number of different projects spanning the surfing, technology, wine, events, marketing, fashion, philanthropic and most recently dunny-cleaning industries. Along the way I've had my fair-share of near-misses, almost-successes and outright failures. I've also been fortunate enough to scale and exit a multi-million-dollar business, be listed in the Australian Financial Review’s Fastest 100 Growing Companies, pick up a Bronze Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Awards, and start a charity


Expertise: Environmental Sustainability Entrepreneurship Motivation & Inspiration Sales & Marketing Social Issues & Advocacy
Languages: English
Country: Australia

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