The Big Read Self-made billionaire, investor and philanthropist, 44-year-old Scott Farquhar is the boy from Sydney’s western suburbs now making waves in the city’s uberwealthy east – owning two of the city’s most expensive houses and pushing for one of its oldest boy’s schools, Cranbrook, to take in girls. As he steps down from the company he founded with Michael Cannon-Brookes, Farquhar and his wife, Kim Jackson, will be stepping up their focus on philanthropy and their investment company, Skip Capital. Farquhar, who has been a driving force behind the establishment of the Technology Council of Australia, is also keen on promoting the sector as an industry in its own right with its own special interests – including the need for easier visa conditions to bring in workers from offshore – and he also wants to mentor other tech start-ups. While Cannon-Brookes has taken a high-profile role both inside and outside Atlassian, Farquhar and his wife have taken a lower key approach to life, but with a strong passion to use their skills and money to make a difference. Glenda Korporaal Read more | 