SYDNEY — Meet Australia's newest tech millionaire.
Surfer and childhood rebel Chris Strode, 40, created the initial version of the now hugely-successful invoicing app Invoice2go in 2002 on his commute home from work. The app has now just seen an injection of $A35 million by Silicon Valley investment heavyweights Accel Partners and Ribbit Capital
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Growing up in the small New South Wales town of Albury, Strode says he had a conventional childhood. From a young age, he had a strong work ethic and by the age of 10 he was working with his dad in the family caravan park. During his quiet, country upbringing, he could have never imagined the success he would see today. Read more...
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