The taking of Vocus, acquisitions and boardroom coups Jon Brett

Airtasker is part of the Australian vernacular. Tim Fung co-founded Airtasker with Jonathan Lui in Feb 2012. In this hard hitting interview, Tim discusses how they raised money and built Airtasker into a global business and all the issues they face.

Airtasker has 1.5m customers, and provides $200m per annum in work to Taskers (people who do the work) . It also has operations in the USA and UK.

The interview covers how Airtasker ensures the revenue split is fair and why one should still use Airtasker even if you can go direct to the Tasker.

Airtasker is listed on the ASX since March 2021, and Tim discusses the poor performance of the share price and why the priority is global growth.

Tony Grist - Non Exec Chair and Co-founder Amcom
Sept 1997 - July 2015


Tony co-founded Amcom and sold it to Vocus. In this interview, he describes that journey, the TPG acquisition of 19.9% and the extra-ordinary lengths he went to, to get the merger with Vocus across the line.
He then details his experience after the merger with M2 and his thoughts of the issues encountered.

In 2004 James packed his bag and went to live in Ukraine. where he learnt to to speak fluent Russian.

In Ukraine, James met Viktoria, a native Ukrainian whom he married in 2007.

James and Victoria live in Sydney.


When the Russians invaded Ukraine, James decided he wanted to make some contribution to the war effort. First he bought 2 second hand ambulances and delivered them himself to the front line in Ukraine. But then decided that 4WD cars were better suited to the terrain so now he buys these cars and has them converted into ambulances.
James has a fund raising page - https://www.gofundme.com/f/ausukraineaid -
and all contributions go directly to this cause with nothing being paid for administration. James pays for his trips to Ukraine himself. This is a great way to support Ukraine.

This is his story

James founded Vocus and grew Vocus from a small telco to the 4th largest telco in Australia



James explains his rationale for merging with M2 and the issues with the merger

The Taking of Vocus - Class Action - Going Private - Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

The Taking of Vocus - Everything changes yet some things remain the same

New CEO Kevin Russell appointed

Jon Brett and Rhoda Phillipo retire