4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
As an early entrepreneur, Bruce founded his first business at age 16. He was a leader in the consumer practice at Boston Consulting Group and then built Jetstar into the largest low cost airline in Asia with 7,000+ employees. After Jetstar, Bruce revisited his roots and created another world-class company, ROKT. He expanded ROKT from a handful of employees working in Sydney in 2012 to a global team of more than 100 across four continents. His global experience, entrepreneurial spirit, vision for growth, and passion for business exemplify his high standards as a CEO, as well as his determination to build innovative companies.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got |
0:06.9 | filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other |
0:16.1 | insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. |
0:23.6 | I had no money when I started the company. |
0:25.6 | It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs. |
0:29.6 | We're a bit strapped. |
0:30.6 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
0:33.6 | With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
0:38.7 | major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
0:43.6 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
0:48.6 | Hello, everyone. |
0:49.7 | Today, my guest is Bruce Buchanan. |
0:52.0 | He is the creator of a company called Rocked. |
0:54.0 | We'll jump into |
0:54.5 | in a second, but as an early entrepreneur, he founded his first business at the right age of 16. |
0:59.4 | He was a leader in the consumer practice at Boston Consulting Group and then built Jetstar |
1:03.3 | into the largest low-cost airline in Asia with 7,000 plus employees. After Jetstar, he revisited |
1:09.2 | his roots and created another world cross company in |
1:11.5 | Rocked. He expanded the company from a handful of employees working in Sydney in 2012 to a global |
1:16.5 | team of more than 100 across four continents. Bruce, are you ready to take us to the top? |
1:22.1 | Ready. All right. You know, look, Jets is way sexier, I think, than most spaces. Why leave Jetstar? |
1:29.6 | Well, Jetstar was a business that I didn't own. I was a hired gun at the time working for |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nathan Latka, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nathan Latka and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.