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Collis Ta'eed

Collis Ta'eed grew at Papua New Guinea and later moved to Australia to attend University and study Mathematics and Computer Science. Together with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed and Jun Rung they created [Envato] in 2006 as a way of working and traveling but due to the rapid increase of success that Evanto got it later became a successful tech startup company that currently employs more than 300 people around the world. The headquarters of the company are in Melbourne.

While at High School Ta'eed met and became friends with Jun Rung who studied Design later on and was the one to introduce the concept to Ta'eed who very adopted it as his passion. Soon after Ta'eed left Mathematics and Computer Science behind to focus on Graphic Design which he learned reading online tutorials, magazines and graphic design books which later became the main reason for creating Tuts+.

Ta'eed soon found a job as a web designer where he met with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed a fellow graphic designer and co-founder of Envato. The pair married and soon after Ta'eed started selling Flash files at iStockPhoto earning around $400 monthly from where eventually he got the idea of creating a more dedicated marketplace because he believed that the Flash marketplace at iStockPhoto was not well catered.