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About Yas Grigaliunas
Yas Grigaliunas is Chief Experience Officer at Videopro, the Australian audio-visual retailer and integrator, where she had worked earlier in her career.
She founded World's Biggest Garage Sale, which began in 2013 as a Brisbane garage sale raising money for charity and grew into a business that collected, repaired and resold surplus goods from households and companies. After Officeworks took a 21 per cent stake in early 2022, the business was renamed Circonomy and expanded to Melbourne. It employed neurodiverse staff, and she was a national finalist in the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 Australia awards. The business closed in October 2024.
On Perspective X with Pauline Fetaui, she told the story over two episodes, from the first garage sale to raising about $4 million, deciding to close the business.
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- Founder Journey, Climate & Energy, Fundraising
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2 episodes
Start hereThe Part No One Tells - WBGS Yas Grigaliunas (Part 1)How a 2013 charity garage sale became World's Biggest Garage Sale and then Circonomy, setting up her account of the raise and the 2024 closure.
Perspective X with Pauline Fetaui 
Perspective X with Pauline Fetaui The Part No One Tells - WBGS Yas Grigaliunas (Part 1)
Go straight to the good bits.
Key moments from Closing a Company With Integrity: Yas Grigaliunas (Part 2).
- 0:00The part no one tells
- 0:51Building a team around neurodiversity
- 8:49Leading the narrative through the close
- 10:43High highs, low lows: the pattern
- 12:03Raised $4M, then locked out
- 14:10"Prove your value": nine months outside
- 19:43When founders take the fall in silence
- 21:19Two truths about the board
- 28:13The large global retailer deal and the $6,000 call
- 38:29Closing the company with integrity
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“Don't be a B-grade version of me, be an A-grade version of you.”
“All the billionaires in the world and all the poorest people all have the same 168 hours every week.”
World's Biggest Garage Sale on Day One
World's Biggest Garage Sale (WBGS) was a Brisbane social enterprise founded in 2013 by Yasmin (Yas) Grigaliunas, reselling repaired and repurposed goods to divert waste…
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