Theresa Gattung on Telecom, surviving public scrutiny and investing in women...
At the age of 37 a young women, who made her way up through a pretty sexist world, got the biggest job in the country. No, it’s not Jacinda Ardern today, it’s Theresa Gattung, in 1999.For a brief...
View ArticleScott Blanks on 20 years of comedy at The Classic
20 years ago a bunch of young comedians, and their manager, who’d spent years making comedy nights happen across Auckland, thought it was time for a dedicated venue. On Queen St, near the Town Hall,...
View ArticleBIB Repeat: TV Producer Bailey Mackey on being in the middle of a global...
Last July long standing TV producer Bailey Mackey (Code, The GC) came to the Spinoff Towers to talk about the busines of making TV. Earlier that year new had hit that the production company he runs,...
View ArticleHow Lewis Road Creamery made gold from chocolate milk
A few short years ago a fellow looking for some good butter for a baguette noticed something odd. Although we were a dairy country if you went to the supermarket and wanted a fancy butter the option...
View ArticleThe 22 year old entrepreneur on why he disrupted his successful business
On September 4, 2010, when just 15 years old, Jake Millar’s life changed forever. His father and four close friends died is a skydiving plane crash. Prime Minister John Key visited the scene and Jake...
View ArticleThe Rowan Simpson founder-centric approach to being a company director
Rowan Simpson has made his name about ten times and he’s not done yet. He’s had a large hand in the product and growth in some of New Zealand’s greatest tech exports, he was head of product for Trademe...
View ArticleShe’s flying with NASA and fighting Gwyneth Paltrow’s fake science at 18
At 16 Alexia Hilbertidou looked around and saw that she was the only girl in her IT and physics class, then the next year the only young women in advanced physics. What was going on? How did women go...
View ArticleWhat the tech sector can learn from pop culture fandoms
What exactly could loving One Direction have to do with fixing the diversity pipeline problem in tech? Well if you hear ‘One Direction’ and go into dismissal mode, that might just be the root of the...
View ArticleWhy hiring tangata whenua should be a priority for all businesses
How is a country going to grow if the tangata whenua, some 15 percent of the population, are overrepresented in negative stats and under-represented in the ranks of entrepreneurs and owners? Well, that...
View ArticleThink start-ups are only run by single guys and their friends? Meet Dr Alyona...
Y Combinator is one of the great names in tech and start-ups. The incubator slash business bootcamp is famously hard to get into and famously hard full stop! Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe are some of the...
View ArticleWhy being Māori and from New Zealand is an advantage when trying to sell your...
In 2003 there wasn’t much of a computer game development industry in Aotearoa. But an entrepreneur that loved games, graphics and design set out to change that, and to make a Playstation game - not...
View ArticleNick Shewring, co-founder of co-working company ‘BizDojo,’ is opening the...
Great entrepreneurial ideas come from people, but also from environments that foster creativity, provide support and that lift people to help them to go further. This is part of why co-working spaces-...
View ArticleThe myth of motherhood and career drive being mutually exclusive
Genevieve is External Relations Manager for Lion NZ, a company that is further along than most on the journey. Last year they were champion winner of the YWCA Equal Pay Awards, and of the...
View ArticleWeCompost is keeping tons of waste out of landfill
New Zealand likes to think it’s clean, green and 100% pure, but if you look under the lid, quite a few things you would expect from such a place are not really all there. Like recycling. Even today...
View ArticleAn underground kitchen with a sky-high target
A flippant comment around a kitchen table in 2013 brought about a business that has gone from making one Thai Green Curry to now having a delivery or pick-up service for ready made meals, 2 cafes, a...
View ArticleFlossie’s female lead: Jenene Crossan is solving two problems in one app
As business thinker Cindy Gallop says, there is a lot of money to be made by taking women seriously. But the reason there is that opportunity is that traditionally, particularly in tech and business,...
View ArticleTalking commentary with Spalk co-founder Ben Reynolds
Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Vodafone Xone. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand,...
View ArticleDr Sam Hazeldine: “You’ve got to be hungry”.
We’re very excited to introduce todays guest, someone extra inspiring, even by the pretty amazing standards of the people we talk to week in week out on this show. Someone, I kid you not, that Tony...
View ArticleMiriana Lowrie is making trade credit a simple, paperless process
They say where there’s mystery there’s margin and one thing that is deep in the depths of mystery is trade credit. What’s trade credit? It’s the second biggest source of loans in the world after banks....
View ArticleHow crowdfunding website Press Patron is helping to create quality journalism
In the wake of the holy what the hell disruptive force of President Trump outlets like the Washington Post and New York Times have turned around years of subscriber decline as readers vote with their...
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