SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear on how to use emotion to grow a multimillion-dollar startup

Luke Anear is currently focused on securing market dominance for his workplace safety apps, but his fast-growing startup SafetyCulture is a long way from where his entrepreneurial career started.

Before approaching a developer to help him create a product that would empower workers on the ground to complete vital occupational health and safety checklists to prevent injury and death of employees, Anear dabbled in roles as a manager, private investigator, gym operator, photographer and videographer for self-help king Tony Robbins.

He’s now focused on preventing worker injury and death through the use SafetyCulture’s apps iAuditor and Spotlight, with more than 30 million site inspections being completed using the technology. The company has gained the support of Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, and now turns over approximately $100 million each year.

SmartCompany spoke to Anear about what’s missing in entrepreneurial education in Australia, and how business leaders can make their staff think big. Read more

Emma Koehn - Smart Company - 26 Apr 2017