Sydney too 'boring', expensive for jobs of the future, tech entrepreneurs say

By Catherine Armitage
Updated December 4 2016 - 1:13am, first published December 3 2016 - 11:13pm
Fred Schebesta, left, co-founder of finder.com with Wayne Perry, the company's digital design lead hired from London.   Photo: Wolter Peeters
Fred Schebesta, left, co-founder of finder.com with Wayne Perry, the company's digital design lead hired from London. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, says it's hard to attract global tech talent to Sydney because the city is "dead" and "an embarrassment".  Photo: Louise Kennerley
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, says it's hard to attract global tech talent to Sydney because the city is "dead" and "an embarrassment". Photo: Louise Kennerley

 Hundreds of high-tech high-skilled jobs in fast-growing businesses are going begging in Sydney because the city has become too boring and expensive to attract the creative young talent needed to build the industries of the future, leading entrepreneurs say.

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