Collective Campus

By 2013, Steve Glaveski had spent almost a decade working for large professional services firms and investment banks. He was, above all, a frustrated intrapreneur, with his ideas stifled by bureaucracy and the status quo at big firms. He raised funding to pursue his own web startup and left the world of the big corporates...for a while.

Sean Qian had started Collins Collective, a tech startup hub that he had established in Melbourne’s CBD. Sean was a science buff and ran conferences on the topic, having brought the likes of Neil deGrasse Tyson on his first appearance in Australia. It was at Collins Collective that Sean and Steve first met.