He helped move Australia’s job ads off the printed page. Then Andrew Bassat discovered the harder task: keeping a successful business hungry - and bringing the same impatience to his beloved St Kilda.

A frustrating search for a Melbourne home helped set SEEK in motion. Nearly three decades later, its co-founder is back on housing, with a venture capital career and a different kind of marketplace in between.
The company that helped move Australian job ads off the newspaper page has rebuilt its machinery across Asia Pacific. Now it wants to earn more of its money from the work that happens after someone clicks Apply.