After his last business left him nearly broke, Greg Taylor started over with $15,000 and an idea nobody believed in. That idea became Step One, now a publicly listed company worth tens of millions of dollars. This is the story of how he built it, from a rejected pitch and a factory that almost turned him away to an ASX listing and years of fast growth.
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