Matt Murray
Scaling BusinessMatt Murray was always cut out for business. At 13, the spirited Kiwi was subcontracting his paper run, while simultaneously running a gardening business. At 18, he landed in the UK, where he turned over his first $100,000 distributing Lycra sportswear. A few years later, arriving in Australia, it took just nine months for Matt to establish a nationwide call centre business, which he would later sell for $50 million.
Today it’s humanity, not money, that makes Matt’s world go round. While his company went on to become the country’s largest onshore call centre network, the “mission-critical, high-pressure work” wore him thin, committing him to 12-hour days and taking him away from his beloved family. “I had no time for family or friends; in fact, I had no real friends,” admits Matt. Today, he has “six of the best friends I’ve ever had” at 29 Days, and his life is immeasurably enriched by two busy ‘un-networking’ communities that he’s established to connect “great people with great ideas”.
