All Episodes

Why a Minister and Mayor became a startup fan

She Built & Sold an AI Startup in Under 2 Years for $34M

The NZ Startup Trying to Save Music

Why New Zealand is Falling Behind

$2.8B in Insurance claims were denied last year: My AI is fixing it.

Software Engineering is DEAD: This is what replaces you.

I Almost Lost Everything Building This Startup

How I’m Building a $1B AI Startup: Solo

How I went from sewing machines to building a global SaaS company

Strategy Isn’t a Slide Deck: Systems Thinking in Startups

Fireside Chats from Queenstown – Founders, Operators, and the Ecosystem Behind Episode 100

The UNTOLD Montoux story: THEY SUED US DEAD

Rod Drury: From Xero to $2.1 Billion

Bikes, Rats and Natural Perfume: The Wild Career of a kiwi globally

The Kiwi Who Cracked Silicon Valley: Now a partner at Andreessen Horowitz a16z

My software will power every health transaction worldwide within two years

The All-In Founder: How One Bet Sparked a New Superhuman AI

Forget Silver Bullets: The Engineering Secret No One Told You About

Why I had everything to lose on this startup.

This AI startup knows everything about you

This is why founders SUCCEED OR FAIL

Revolutionising Food: The Future of Alternative Proteins

The Intersection of Science and Entrepreneurship

Electrify Aotearoa Special ⚡️

I wanted to build something with passion and purpose.

SaaS is Dead. Long Live New SaaS.

How I scaled an engineering team to a 400m exit and why I am using AI to do it again.

How to build an AI Go-To-Market strategy.

Hamish Edwards: How I founded a $20 Billion dollar company

Lowry Gladwell: The secrets of SaaS revenue growth

Rowan Simpson: The Man Behind NZ’s Most Successful Startups

PAM, My AI product takes care of your mental load 🤖🫶🏻

How Beastie Boys lead me to co-founding Xero and now Upstock 🚀

My tech will get you into your first home faster 🏠

Global tech success and I have some unfinished business

90% of startups FAIL. Only 3% of our portfolio have failed 🤯

Business is not boring with Simon Pound

Making a documentary about Richie McCaw led me to a tech start-up

Over half of NZ’s internet users are using TikTok 🤯

I have Aphantasia. The inability to visualise & I’m a VC!

The future of digital currency is inevitable 💲

Failure is not an option is stopping breast cancer.

A world where neither time nor talent is wasted

Our commercial model is to make you wealthy

It's not "Survive to '25, it's Drive to '25"

"How I built New Zealand's most successful payroll company!"

New Zealand. You too can change the WORLD! 🌏

It takes a village to create 417 startups worth $1.3 B

Let me teach you the Dark Arts of building a SaaS business globally.

Artificial Intelligence is here to solve healthcare: It’s VITAL

Meet the NZ tech founder revolutionising how busy couples connect.

Out with Mad Men suits, in with Tracksuits: How Conor Archbold is helping to bring brand back.

The compounding snowball is the only way to grow the New Zealand tech ecosystem.

Shaping the future of healthcare globally is 'Nervciting'

We sold our AI company to Apple for $200m before we even released the product

The lighthouse tech companies are showing the path to the rest of the eccosystem

We built a $39B company in Canva, but we are only 1% of the way there

Sometimes rockets blow up, so we are helping founders with a tractor.

My second time founding a successful SaaS company is Joyous

Current startups have a real advantage as we've never known anything but famine

From NZ to space, from space to everywhere else. How I am sending rockets into space from NZ.

We exist within the world you’ve created. Bringing your avatar to life

We might be one of the largest companies on the planet.

#49, Dr Angela Lim, "An AI-powered mental health company"

#48, Barney Chunn, "CONQAring the Construction Software Industry"

#47, Claudia Batten, "Think like a robot, act like a human"

#46, Marian Johnson, “The Prime Minister of Awesome”👩‍⚖️

#45, Nick Houldsworth, "If you are offered a seat on a rocketship, Just F*@kin Do It!"

#44, Justin Soong, “Hatching a unicorn” 🦄

#43, Miriana Lowrie, "A CEO's world is: Capital, Strategy & People"

#42, Barnaby Marshall, "The Truth About Advantage: Money Isn't Everything"

#41, Frances Valintine CNZM, "Follow the adrenaline of risk"

#40, David Downs, "A mild touch of awesome"

#39, Simon Brown, "Transforming Kids' Relationship with Money”

#38, Kirsti Grant & Phil Thomson, "Magical moments when fighting crime"

#37, Bobby Lloyd, "It pays to be Fussy when pivoting"

#36, Kat Lintott, "I'm a world builder"

#35, Mark Vivian, 'The $600m dollar man'

#34, Pene Barton, "I knew at 23 I would be the CEO"

#33, Charlie Meaden, "Can AI democratise wealth generation for everyone?"

#32, Brooke Roberts, "Want to go Sharesies in some wealth?"

#31, Season 1 wrap, "What makes you happy?"

#30, Mike Riversdale & Raj Khushal, "What makes you happy now"

#29, Matthew Hayter, "We got acquired before we had even started" 🤯

#28, Carlos Chambers, "Burning the effigy of being a lawyer and founding companies from the ashes 🔥"

#27, John-Daniel Trask, "Are tech companies now just adult daycares?"

#26, Mary Haddock-Staniland, "A mana enhancing wahine"

#25, Mark Clare, "Deal fever"

#24, Kimberley Gilmour, "Highs, lows and comebacks"

#23, Lee Timutimu, "Ka mua, ka muri"

#22, Rachael (Fitzy) Fitzjohn, "I'm not non technical, I'm technical adjacent"

#21, Vaughan Fergusson, "Innovating impossible"

#20, Andréa van der Meel, "Changing the world through consideration"

#19, Danny Smith, The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

#18, Joel Lieser, "The Netflix recommendation engine for Weed"

#17, Dale Clareburt, When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

#16, James Fuller, In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

#15, Jess Halley, What can anthropology teach us about startups?

#14, Miki Szikszai, A failed pilot who built a top gun grad programme.

#13 - Adrienne Muir, Hands on the heart of the business