Dorry Kordahi - The Art of Entrepreneurship

​It’s part of Who’s In The Room? | Curated Conversations for Business, a series focused on:

​Conversations with the people shaping tomorrow.

​A former hairdresser started a business in his parents’ backyard shed. Then he bought the team.

​Dorry Kordahi
Dorry Kordahi built DKM Blue into one of Australia’s leading merchandise and uniforms businesses, expanded into fashion labels, and has held ownership stakes in both the Sydney Kings and the Illawarra Hawks. Before any of it, he was a hairdresser and would-be basketballer who walked away from the family business at 26 to start again on his own.

​Our conversation will explore: The Art of the Calculated Risk.

Who should attend Fashion and apparel founders deciding whether to make, source or acquire their next label.
Creatives building brands around sport, culture and community, not just product.
Designers and makers with an idea in the spare room, waiting for the right moment to back it.
Anyone who has left a safe seat, in a family business or otherwise, to bet on themselves.

​What you'll take away A rag trader’s view of how fashion, merchandise and sport actually make money, from the factory floor to courtside.
The story of starting over with a few scribbled pages of a plan, and what the hardest decision of his life taught him.
Direct access to Dorry and to the room around you: makers, founders and the people building culture through brands.

​The evening

• ​5:30pm sharp — Doors open, arrival drinks

• ​6:30–7:00pm — Dorry Kordahi

• ​7:00pm — The Press Collective, live

​Capacity is held to 50 seats. This one is built to stay a room, not become an audience.

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​Who’s In The Room? | Curated Conversations, Featured Guest Hosted by Robert Ian Bonnick At The Press In collaboration with The House of XYZ