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Graham 'Skroo' Turner built Flight Centre into a multi-billion dollar business

Graham 'Skroo' Turner built Flight Centre into a multi-billion dollar business

From Zero with Adam Schwab
Sea. 1 Ep. 1338 min
8 Nov 21
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How do you go from working on your family's apple orchard in regional Queensland, to working as a veterinary surgeon, to becoming one of Australia's greatest founders? Graham 'Skroo' Turner co-founded Flight Centre in the early 1980's and has seen it become one of Australia's most successful businesses, turning over more than 20 billion of dollars annually  In this episode, hear how Skroo founded his first business, the group travel company Topdeck in the UK before returning to Australia and building Flight Centre from just one store into the juggernaut it is today and how he survived COVID.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.