Richard Eastes from Vroom Vroom Vroom
March 31st 2009.
The Hive Brisbane is very excited to be kicking off the year with guest entrepreneur Richard Eastes from Vroom Vroom Vroom!
Richard took a risk when he spent his life savings on VroomVroomVroom – a travel startup that was booking a mere 20 online car rental reservations per day. He quickly grew it from his Brisbane bedroom into Australia’s fastest growing travel company. Winning various business awards such as Deloitte FAST50, it now generates close to $5m in sales each month. The company is expanding globally and is poised to becoming a great Australian export.
As a project to compliment VroomVroomVroom.com’s carbon neutral car rental, Richard started GreenLogo which has calculated that the internet produces approximately 1200 tonnes of CO2 per hour. GreenLogo reduces this by tracking the CO2 produced by a website and then pays for its carbon credits using sponsors.
Richard loves networking nights, innovative employees, touch rugby, social media sites and is addicted to Twitter. Follow him on twitter at @eastes
Read Ross Hill’s review of the event here, and watch the podcast on Youtube.
About the Author
Mike Boyd has been a serial entrepreneur and change maker for over a decade. He has founded, run, developed and mentored over a dozen businesses ranging in value from 0-$30M, in varying industries including entertainment, technology, professional services, e-commerce, education & not-for-profit.
As an entrepreneur, Mike has a passion for business innovation, agile strategies, communication effectiveness and sales behaviour. Starting his entrepreneurial career at age 11 selling lost golf balls, he didn’t look back, going on to (co)found no less than 7 businesses before the age of 25.
Sought after as a coach, consultant & seminar leader, Mike has worked with senior executives and teams at some of Australia’s largest organisations in the public, private and education sectors, and is known for providing engaging and thought provoking presentations that get to the heart of communication and leadership issues.
Mike is currently the Director of Ambition in Action Education, the Director of The Hive Brisbane, the Founder of Cupstart Online Coffee, Co-Founder of Seventh Bloom, a frequent Business Speaker and sits on the board for a number of not-for-profit organisations.
Keep up with Mike on Twitter @MikeBoyd
