HOW ORANGE SKY IS SCALING ITS TECHNOLOGY TO RECONNECT COMMUNITIES ACROSS AUSTRALIA

James Harkness - Dynamic Business - 27 April 2018

The challenges SMBs inevitably encounter as they outgrow their original technological infrastructure can become compounded if they’re experiencing rapid expansion and find themselves overseeing a national workforce. Social entrepreneurs Nic Marchesi and Lucas Patchett, named the 2016 young Australians of the year, know this all too well.

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In late 2014, the Queensland duo had the ‘crazy idea’ of hitting the streets in a second-hand van, equipped with a pair of washing machines and dryers. Marchesi told Dynamic Business that while he and Patchett set out to offer free laundry services to people experiencing homelessness, their broader objective was to positively connect communities. Read more