Lindsay Rogers on creating a million $ business in one year at 25

Lindsay is the MD and co-founder of Chello, an agency that
applies creativity to communication problems; connecting brands
and people back to what matters most.


At the age of 25 Lindsay Rogers left a dream career – to build
the company she couldn’t have dreamed of. It was 2014, a
time where advertising agencies were staking their claim on
digital content, and digital agencies were extending their
offerings to campaigns. So it was the perfect time to start
Chello; an agency that wheels and deals in all kinds of
content. Chello offers small and large organisations – from
corporates to small non-profits.


Chello started as two co-founders. In its first year, it turned
over a million dollars and reached over 45 clients –
including an international airline. Since then the company has
grown to over 20 people and more than 180 clients.


In between, Lindsay has won Telstra Young Business Woman of the
Year for NSW, 2015, and has been accepted to the Executive
Bootcamp in Design Thinking at Stanford University. She
recently won Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media and Marketing for
the Asia Pacific 2017 and has previously won B&T 30 Under
30 Specialist 2016 and Mumbrella’s Under 30s Achiever 2016.


Lindsay uses her strategic thinking, relentless curiosity and
vociferous appetite for content to shape the way clients think
about their brand, campaigns, and audiences. She is often called
on to speak about her start-up journey with Chello, the need to
stay curious, the shift in content consumption and new mediums
for storytelling.


URL: www.chello.com.au


Handles: @acheekyhello / @lindzrogers