Meet Charlie Gunningham - entrepreneur, academic, musician and athlete - Episode 6
- Ask Alyka
- Digital Marketing
04 Sep 2017
BOOM. What an episode! Beth and Zion chat with Charlie Gunningham - entrepreneur, academic, musician and athlete. He’s super passionate about Digital Disruption and has a mountain of credentials including:
- UWA MBA degree (top of class)
- Former EGM of REIWA
- Former CEO of BusinessNews WA
- Representative of Singapore cricket team
- Founder of Damburst damburst.com.au/
Questions and Timestamps:
[4:05] How is Charlie not completely arrogant?
[8:32] How important is formal education when it comes to business?
[10:00] What change does formal education need?
[16:40] The start of Aussiehome.com
[19:20] The problem with the real estate listings market back in the day
[21:00] What problem should startup companies solve?
[22:25] It’s easy to buy things, but hard to sell things
[24:08] When everything clicked with Aussiehome.com
[27:18] Grow rich slowly
[28:40] Digital disruption in the taxi industry
[29:09] Change happens slowly
[30:00] Don’t ever stay comfortable
[30:28] Digital disruption in the newspaper industry
[30:50] What is digital disruption?
[32:42] What will happen when Amazon comes to Australia
[34:40] The death of TV in the next generation
[37:21] The future of self driving cars
[38:20] How do we use digital disruption for our own benefit
[43:00] How does Charlie transform businesses in this digital age?
If you have any questions, please hit us up on any of the following:
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If you want to get in touch with Charlie, you can email him at charlie@damburst.com.au.