Richard Eastes is an entrepreneur who spent his life savings on adopting a struggling start-up in 2002. At that point, the start-up was generating a mere 5 sales a day, until Richard grew it to around 700 sales a day within a few years. The company’s name is VroomVroomVroom and it now dominates the car rental comparison market in Australia. VroomVroomVroom has won dozens of awards for it’s fast growth, and innovations. Annual sales now exceed $40m.

Richard believes the most under-rated business technique in Australia is the element of surprise and uses it, along with search engine optimisation and a culture of innovation to grow.

He tweets at http://twitter.com/carrental/

He blogs at http://eastes.com.au

Other Accolades and Achievements

Bachelors Degree in Information Technology

Smart50 Company Award 3 years in a row

Deloitte Technology FAST50 award 4 years in a row

Amadeus TRAVELtech Website of the Year Award

Founder of FruitBox.com (an open source WordPress Theme)