FORMER Ebden boy and Wodonga student Chris Strode yesterday strode into the corporate limelight as its new multimillion-dollar man.
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His creation a dozen years ago of invoicing software that has since become a popular phone and tablet app, Invoice2go, is paying dividends on a grand scale with the announcement by an international venture fund that it would inject $35 million into Mr Strode’s business.
Accel Partners has valued Mr Strode’s company at $100 million and this investment will allow it to grow further in months with plans to double or triple its number of staff.
Mr Strode says those with a business idea don’t need to live in the big cities to make their dreams a reality.
Instead, he says, broadband connections allow people to pursue those ideas and make them happen on a grand scale.
It’s a long way from Lake Hume’s Boathaven Holiday Park, and even his tertiary studies at the Wodonga campus of La Trobe University, to heading a Sydney-based company with customers all around the world.
Mr Strode already has 120,000 people using his app in more than 50 countries where it is now sold.
His plan to grow the company 10 times bigger seems well within his grasp.