Mike Smith
Hey there! Thanks for stopping by and checking out my page. If you're here, it probably means you're interested in finding out a bit more about me and my previous projects. You're in the right place!
To get things started, here's a bit about me and my background... I'm a small town, public-school kid from the North Coast of NSW. I grew up surfing, playing basketball and making noise on a guitar. After school I moved to Sydney and studied commerce at UNSW. After that I got a job with an advertising agency. It took me 3yrs to figure out that wasn't what I wanted to do with my life. So I quit my well-paying job and joined the ranks of the gainfully unemployed.
Since then I've been involved as a founder and sometimes-investor to a number of different projects spanning the surfing, technology, wine, events, marketing, fashion, philanthropic and most recently dunny-cleaning industries. Along the way I've had my fair-share of near-misses, almost-successes and outright failures. I've also been fortunate enough to scale and exit a multi-million-dollar business, be listed in the Australian Financial Review’s Fastest 100 Growing Companies, pick up a Bronze Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Awards, and start a Registered Australian Charity that builds schools in Myanmar (Burma).
If you're interested in finding out more about some of those adventures, please read on...
Start-Up Details
ZeroCo
- Industry Manufacturing
- Website https://www.zeroco.com.au/
Zero Co is on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic packaging from every Aussie kitchen, laundry and bathroom.
Our range of planet-friendly personal-care and home-cleaning products get delivered direct to your door, minus all the single-use plastic packaging.
It works just like the milkman: you order, we deliver, you return, we refill. Our refill and return model makes it easy to replace single-use with forever-use.
Our dispensers are made from plastic waste pulled out of the ocean (and you keep them at your house forever). You fill them up with our refill pouches made from recycled plastic (that you send back to us over and over again).
Order your box of Zero Co today and win the war on waste at your place. For good.
https://zeroco.com.au/
#imgoingzero
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- $3,500,000 - Seed - 2021 Oct 21