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"It's Only Going to Get Worse": Entrepreneur Charlie Gearside on How Australia Becomes a Winner Again
54 minutes Posted Aug 26, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
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Charlie Gearside co-founded a $1.6 billion telehealth empire from scratch. No medical background, no blueprint, just a bet that Australians deserved better access to healthcare. But now he's turned his attention to something bigger, a cultural movement to remind Australia how to take risks again. This episode covers how Eucalyptus went from a $2 million Blackbird raise to a US acquisition, why Australia's business creation rate has been declining since the 1970s, and what Charlie is doing about it through Build Australia.

Learn more about Build Australia here: https://buildaustralia.com/

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