Australia's Benjamin Chong Helps Startups Excel With Right Click Capital

Today, my guest is a fellow Founder Institute Director, Benjamin Chong. Benjamin has been the director of Founder Institute in Australia since 2011 and is also well known as a partner at Right Click Capital. Right Click Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups. He is an active technology startup community member that has served as a mentor and guest speaker at many different entrepreneurial programs in Sydney, South East Asia, and the United States.

Benjamin Chong grew up in Australia and says his life-changing entrepreneurial moment was when he was in a program called Young Achievement in High School where a few select students from multiple schools got together and created a business, they had to sell stock, and make it profitable, which was a success. He graduated from the University of South Wales and has been unstoppable. Listen in to learn more about Benjamin’s successes…

• Early years in Australia

• Young Achievement program in High School

• Working at PWC

• Co-founding iMega

• Directing Founder Institute since 2011

• Is startup life different in Australia

• How important mental health is

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Links from this episode:

• Right Click Capital

• Benjamin’s LinkedIn

• Benjamin’s Twitter

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• Founder Institute

• We Work

• Audible

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