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Joel Flory: The subscription juggernaut
February 06, 2020 19:15 - 1 hour - 114 MBJoel Flory is the Co-Founder and CEO of VSCO, a ‘community for creators, by creators,’ centred around the VSCO photo editing app. VSCO is today one of the fastest growing subscription businesses in the world, and surpassed two million paid users within two years of launching their subscription service. Today they have more than 20 million weekly active users in 160+ countries. VSCO has raised $90 million in funding from investors Accel, Glynn Capital Management and Obvious Ventures. Prior...
Tomer Tagrin: From two-person startup to global marketing giant
February 06, 2020 19:13 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBTomer Tagrin is the co-founder and CEO of Yotpo, the ‘leading customer content marketing platform for commerce brands.’ Thousands of businesses use Yotpo to collect and leverage every type of user-generated content to increase trust, social proof and sales. Yotpo has 400+ employees across offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv and Boston, and has raised $101 million in venture backing over seven rounds. A native of Israel, Tomer has a Bachelor of Software Engineering from Tel Aviv Universit...
Heidi Zak: How ThirdLove is taking over a $100 billion industry
February 06, 2020 19:10 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MBHeidi Zak is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of ThirdLove. Founded in 2012 by Heidi and her husband David, ThirdLove is one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive bra and underwear companies in America. Founded on a mission to allow every woman to have a ‘great-fitting, beautiful and comfortable bra,’ ThirdLove today sells 24 bras in 74 sizes, double the industry standard. The company has grown rapidly, with sales growing from $1.5 million in 2015 to more than $100 million in early 2019. Th...
Joe Lonsdale: The unicorn whisperer
February 06, 2020 19:10 - 1 hour - 108 MBEntrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner at 8VC, Founder & Chairman of Addepar and Founder of Palantir Technologies. An early institutional investor in numerous companies including Wish, Oculus, Oscar, Guardant Health and Blend, Joe was the youngest-ever member of the ‘Midas List’ when he debuted in 2016. In 2004 he co-founded multi-billion dollar big data analytics startup Palantir, where he initially served as co-head of product. Palantir’s software is...
Alexander Rinke: Mining big data for big money
February 06, 2020 19:04 - 1 hour - 114 MBAlexander Rinke is the 29-year-old Co-Founder, Co-CEO and Chief Product Owner of unicorn startup Celonis. Founded in 2011 in Munich, Germany, Celonis is the market leader in ‘process mining software,’ a new discipline that involves optimizing IT-driven processes in large enterprises. Celonis clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies, including General Motors, Exxon-Mobil, BMW, Vodafone, Uber and more. In 2015, Celonis was named the fastest growing tech company in Germany with revenue ...
Whitney Bouck: the enterprise software expert
January 07, 2020 10:23 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MBWhitney Bouck is the Chief Operating Officer of HelloSign, and a deeply experienced enterprise software executive, with over 30 years of experience in leadership, strategy, sales, marketing and business operations. Founded in 2010, HelloSign is a ‘digital workflow platform’ that helps over 80,000 customers and millions of people do business faster. Whitney joined HelloSign as COO in early 2016 and has since led the Sales, Marketing, Customer Operations and Business Development teams. In J...
Paul English: The Uber-driving serial founder
January 07, 2020 10:17 - 1 hour - 107 MBPaul English is a serial entrepreneur, dedicated philanthropist and the Co-Founder and CTO of Lola.com. Widely regarded as one of the top entrepreneurs in Boston, Paul is best known for co-founding travel metasearch engine Kayak, which was acquired by Priceline for $1.8 billion in 2013. At Lola, he oversees product strategy, definition, design, and development, working closely with customers to make sure that Lola’s newest features are well received by users, and that they become “must ha...
Nick Molnar: The rise of a payments empire
January 07, 2020 10:15 - 47 minutes - 66.3 MBSerial entrepreneur Nick Molnar is the Co-Founder, Executive Director and Global Chief Revenue Officer of Afterpay Touch Group. Founded in February 2014 in Sydney, Australia by Nick and his Co-Founder Anthony Eisen, Afterpay facilitates commerce between retail merchants and their end-customers - offering a ‘buy now, take now, pay later’ service that does not require end-customers to enter into a traditional loan or pay any upfront fees or interest to Afterpay. Just two years after its fo...
Jeff Russakow: Solving the last-mile problem
January 07, 2020 10:15 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBJeff Russakow is a deeply experienced executive and leader, and the current CEO of Boosted, a “leading provider of lightweight, portable, high-performance electric vehicles.” A doctor in Mechanical Engineering, Jeff is a deeply experienced executive and leader with over 20 years of diverse operating and management experience across numerous industries, including consumer tech, software, internet & digital media, tech-enabled services and hardware. Some of his former roles include Vice Pre...
Daniel Yanisse: The workplace fairness crusader
January 07, 2020 10:09 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBDaniel Yanisse is the Co-Founder and CEO of Checkr, one of the fastest-growing B2B products in Silicon Valley. Founded in 2014 by Daniel and Jonathan Perichon, Checkr ‘provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups.’ Today they run more than 1.5 million background checks a month for customers including Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Warby Parker and Postmates. Checkr has attracted $150 million in capital, with investors including T.Rowe Price, GV, Y Combinator a...
Anjney Midha: A brave new AR world
January 07, 2020 10:02 - 55 minutes - 77.7 MBAnjney Midha is the CEO and co-founder of Ubiquity6, a ‘massively multiplayer augmented reality platform focused on bringing people together in physical spaces.’ Founded in 2017, Ubiquity6 has raised over $37 million from investors including Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and First Round Capital and in 2018 participated in the Disney Accelerator Program. Prior to founding Ubiquity6, Anjney was an investing partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he founded the firm's dedicated seed fund KPCB ...
Henrique Dubugras: From Zero to Unicorn in 16 months
January 07, 2020 09:56 - 59 minutes - 83.3 MBHenrique Dubugras is the 23-year-old Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brex. Billed as the ‘smartest corporate card in the room,’ Brex is ‘transforming B2B payments by creating financial technology customized to the industry-specific needs of its customers - starting with the corporate card.’ Founded in March 2017 and launched in June 2018, Brex is among the fastest companies to reach unicorn status, taking just 16 months to grow from a two-person team at Y Combinator to a 50-person company valued ...
Shanna Tellerman: the 3D design disruptor
November 21, 2019 08:19 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBShanna Tellerman is the Founder and CEO of Modsy, the 3D visualization startup “changing the way we imagine, design and create our homes.” A serial entrepreneur, Shanna founded her first company Sim Ops Studios out of graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, where she developed and commercialized a 3D simulation technology. Sim Ops Studios was later acquired by Autodesk, the $37-billion publicly-listed leader in 3D technology. Shanna founded Modsy in May 2015 to revolutionize the int...
Gary Hirshberg: Origins of the world's largest organic yogurt producer
October 31, 2019 22:34 - 2 hours - 188 MBGary Hirshberg is an entrepreneur, businessman, fierce environmentalist and the Chairman of Stonyfield Farm. Stonyfield Farm is today the world’s leading organic yogurt producer. Founded in 1983 by Gary Hirshberg and Samuel Kaymen from a small, seven-cow organic farming school, Stonyfield Farm is today the world’s leading organic yogurt producer. Gary was CEO for 28 years, leading the business from its inception to global sales of more than U.S. $360 million. During his tenure, Stonyfield ...
Zach Sims: 45 million users and a global coding revolution
October 01, 2019 00:09 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBZach Sims is the Co-Founder and CEO of Codecademy, the “leading online education company closing the skills gap by teaching programming.” Founded in August 2011, Codecademy it attracted 200,000 users with no marketing on its launch weekend, and today counts more than 45 million users, including President Obama and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Codecademy has been named a TIME “Top 50 Website” and as a “World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.” The company has raised $45.5 million ...
Leela Srinivasan: A marketing maestro takes on the feedback economy
September 23, 2019 23:21 - 59 minutes - 83.2 MBLeela Srinivasan is the Chief Marketing Officer of SurveyMonkey, a role she took on in April 2018. At SurveyMonkey she leads all marketing functions including brand strategy, growth marketing, product marketing, and communications. SurveyMonkey listed on the NASDAQ at a $1.5 billion valuation on September 2018. A veteran marketing executive, some of Leela’s former roles include Director of Marketing of LinkedIn Talent Solutions, driving marketing for what was then LinkedIn’s largest and fa...
Ryan Holmes: The global social behemoth, Hootsuite, takes flight
September 17, 2019 00:27 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBRyan Holmes is the Founder and CEO of unicorn startup Hootsuite, a serial entrepreneur and best-selling author. Founded in 2008, Hootsuite is the world's most widely used social relationship platform, with more than 18 million users in over 175 countries, including more than 80% of the Fortune 1000. A born entrepreneur, Ryan started his first business in high school and opened a string of venture, including a pizza restaurant and a paintball business and digital media agency, before starti...
Hill Ferguson: From rural America to reimagining a nation’s health
September 12, 2019 01:27 - 40 minutes - 56.5 MBHill Ferguson is the Chief Executive Officer of Doctor On Demand, America’s leading virtual care provider. Launched in 2013, Doctor on Demand allows anyone, with or without insurance, to connect with a physician using a live-streamed video feed from a mobile device. In just four years they surpassed one million video visits, and today they have hundreds of enterprise customers, including four of the Fortune 10 and over two dozen health plan partners. Hill is a veteran executive with nearly...
Katia Beauchamp: How Birchbox disrupted beauty via a new business model
September 11, 2019 02:21 - 51 minutes - 70 MBKatia Beauchamp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Birchbox, the beauty destination for the “casual beauty consumer,” and the company credited with starting the rise of subscription delivery services. Founded in 2010, Birchbox hit its five-year plan in just seven months, and within a year of launching had amassed 45,000 subscribers and $10.5 million in seed funding. By year four the company had grown to 800,000 subscribers, which equated to nearly $100 million in annual subscription revenue alone...
General Stanley McChrystal: A US four-star general on leadership and loyalty
September 08, 2019 22:56 - 1 hour - 65 MBGeneral Stanley McChrystal is a retired four-star general; former commander of US and International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan, former commander of Joint Special Operations Command and the Founder and Partner of McChrystal Group. After 9/11 until his retirement in 2010, he spent more than 6 years deployed to combat in a variety of leadership positions. In June 2009, the President of the United States and the Secretary General of NATO appointed him to be the Commander of US Fo...
Stuart Landesberg: The digital-first eco-visionary putting ethics on the market
August 20, 2019 03:28 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBStuart Landesberg is the Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative, the leading digital-first brand & ecommerce platform for natural home and personal care. Founded in 2012, Grove Collaborative is a Certified B Corp and makes it easy for families to choose sustainable, ethical and non-toxic products, offering a thoroughly vetted selection as well as their own carefully crafted line of products. Named the 37th fastest growing company in the U.S in the 2018 Inc 5,000, they have reportedly grow...
Keith Krach - Encore: America’s top economic diplomat chats category creation, culture, and Trump
August 12, 2019 23:50 - 1 hour - 108 MBKeith Krach is an entrepreneur and businessman, and the nominee for Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment for the United States of America. Keith’s stated mission is to strategically lead economic diplomacy to enhance economic growth, energy security and the health of the planet, in order to advance peace and prosperity for our country and for the world. Amongst the most accomplished transformational leaders on the planet, Keith has taken three companies...
JB Osborne: How Red Antler shapes the world’s hottest names
August 07, 2019 04:36 - 1 hour - 68.1 MBFounded in 2007, Red Antler is the “leading brand company for startups who are challenging what is and creating what’s next,” and is credited with a large part of the success of numerous modern brands such as Allbirds, Casper, Brandless, Betterment and Birchbox. Red Antler has been named one of Fast Company’s “Top Ten Most Innovative in Marketing & Advertising,” and is sought after by startups and venture capitalists alike for their unparalleled expertise in creating “category-defining exp...
Maile Carnegie: The tech veteran on large-scale disruption and innovation
July 30, 2019 02:29 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBMaile Carnegie is the Group Executive of Digital Banking at ANZ, Australia’s second largest bank by assets. Maile leads the strategic development and delivery of a superior digital experience for ANZ’s eight million retail, commercial and institutional customers. This includes digital projects, innovation and strategic relationships with the FinTech sector. She holds shared responsibility for the financial results of ANZ’s Australia and New Zealand divisions and also holds Group accountabil...
Orion Hindawi: Rise of a cybersecurity titan
July 26, 2019 00:15 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBOrion Hindawi is the Co-Founder and CEO of IT security and operations firm Tanium. Founded in 2007 by Orion and his father David Hindawi, Tanium gives the world's largest enterprises and government organizations the unique power to secure, control, and manage millions of endpoints across the enterprise within seconds. A technology visionary and accomplished inventor, Orion has led the development of enterprise-scale endpoint security and management platforms for the past 18 years at BigFix...
Quentin Clark: Dropbox CTO talks leadership, culture, and the future of enterprise tech
July 14, 2019 21:49 - 1 hour - 62 MBQuentin Clark is the CTO of Dropbox. A veteran enterprise software executive, Quentin started his career at Microsoft as a Software Engineer in 1994, rising through the ranks to eventually become Corporate Vice President of the Data Platform, where he oversaw the design and delivery of Microsoft’s data products. In this role he reported to current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, at the time an Executive Vice President. After leaving Microsoft, he spend some time as Chief Technology Officer, an...
Sara Clemens - Encore: How Twitch is cornering the $1 billion eSports sector
July 09, 2019 05:12 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBSara Clemens is the Chief Operating Officer of Twitch, and a deeply experienced technology executive. Launched in June 2011, Twitch is the “leading service and community for multiplayer entertainment - unique, live, unpredictable experiences created by the shared interactions of millions of people.” In August 2014 it was acquired by Amazon for $970 million, and today has 15 million daily average visitors. In 2018 alone, viewers watched 505 billion minutes of video, the equivalent of almost...
Peter Cullinane: 3,100% Growth In Sales In 8 Weeks - The Story Behind Lewis Road Creamery
June 16, 2019 23:05 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThe Founder and CEO of Lewis Road Creamery, whose chocolate milk caused a frenzy in late 2014, Peter Cullinane has an extensive background in the advertising and branding industry. He is a Founding Partner of the Assignment Group, Co-Founder of Antipodes Water, and Director of NZME. Until recently, he was also a Director of SkyCity and STW Group, and was formerly the Chairman and CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Australasia, and former COO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide. Watch Peter‘s full intervi...
Diane Foreman: How A Secretary's Secretary Rose To Lead A Multi-Million Dollar Business
June 14, 2019 03:35 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBDiane Foreman is the Founder and Chairman of investment vehicle Emerald Group, with an estimated net worth of $190 million (NBR). She was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009, and was awarded the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2011. In 2010, she represented New Zealand at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards in Monte Carlo, and was invited back the next year as the first Australasian woman to sit on the judging panel for the same award. Dian...
Rick Caruso: Lessons from the billionaire “Walt Disney of Retail”
June 02, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBRick Caruso is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Caruso, and a visionary developer, renowned business innovator, dedicated civic leader and actively-involved philanthropist. As CEO of Caruso , Rick manages a portfolio of upscale retail and entertainment properties that attract over 40 million people annually and has been coined “the Walt Disney of Retail” by Forbes. Caruso is one of the largest and most admired privately held real estate companies in the United States, and wide...
Jane Hastings: The two ideas that will let you overcome any challenge in business
May 31, 2019 01:24 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBCOO of Event Hospitality & Entertainment, Jane Hastings began her management career at Air New Zealand and was recently the CEO of NZME, where she led the transformation of the business. Jane Hastings is a highly experienced media executive with experience in Asia and Australasia. Jane was previously the Chief Executive Officer of NZME, where she lead the transformation and integration of the business (which owns the NZ Herald, NewstalkZB, GrabOne, ZM, and The Hits, amongst others). Jane H...
Sir Bob Jones: From state house to prime office real estate - The property investor with two billion in assets
May 28, 2019 02:13 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBSir Robert ‘Bob' Jones is a property investor, author and former politician. Born in 1939, Sir Bob grew up in a state house in the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae. He attended Naenae College, before studying at Victoria University of Wellington. In his early years he worked numerous jobs in factories assembling cars, making biscuits at Griffin's and working at Coca-Cola. In 1963, he bought his first commercial property, and today he is New Zealand's largest private office building owner. With ...
Joan Withers: From Leaving School At 16 To Leading Two Of NZ's Biggest Companies
May 24, 2019 02:04 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBJoan Withers is one of New Zealand's most capable executives: she has been the CEO of several several major New Zealand companies, including Fairfax Media and The Radio Network, and has been Chair of numerous iconic corporations, including Auckland International Airport, TVNZ, The Warehouse Group, and Mercury, and board roles in Mighty River Power and ANZ (to name just a few!) The recipient of numerous business awards, she has been awarded the NZ Shareholder Association's Beacon Award for 2...
Tim Norton: How 90 Seconds Went From 0 To $50,000 Revenue/Day - In Just 6 Years
May 23, 2019 05:03 - 37 minutes - 34.9 MBTim Norton is the Founder and CEO of 90 Seconds, an innovative cloud-based video production platform. Tim is a serial entrepreneur and has been starting and growing businesses since he was 20 years old, and has a mix of technology, marketing, design, finance and leadership experience, and at one point in his career was $750,000 in debt. He started 90 Seconds in 2010, and has grown the business to 1,100 clients and 74 staff across 7 countries, and in April 2016 raised $11 million U.S. in a ...
Jeremy Moon: From $200K in seed capital to $200M revenue - The global rise of icebreaker
May 22, 2019 04:34 - 45 minutes - 42.6 MBFounder, Chairman and Creative Director of Icebreaker, Jeremy Moon is the entrepreneur behind the iconic clothing company with products now sold in 5,000 stores across 40 countries. Jeremy Moon is the Founder, Chairman and Creative Director of Icebreaker, the iconic New Zealand clothing company specializing in merino active wear. Today Icebreaker has a revenue exceeding $200 million. Jeremy is based in Wellington, New Zealand where the global headquarters for Icebreaker are located. A lead...
Marco Zappacosta: Tackling a trillion-dollar opportunity - Building the “Amazon for services"
May 21, 2019 06:03 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBMarco Zappacosta is the Co-Founder and CEO of unicorn startup Thumback, a platform that reached a billion-dollar valuation by matching professionals like plumbers and event planners to people in need of their services, with millions of users across the United States. Tackling a trillion dollar opportunity, Thumbtack has raised $273.2 million in funding over six rounds, with the last round in 2015 valuing the company at $1.3 billion. Famously frugal, they reportedly have 700 employees in thr...
Sir Ron Carter - Live: 43 years, 3,000 employees and 1 company. The origins of Beca
May 21, 2019 01:23 - 58 minutes - 55.1 MBSir Ron Carter - Live: 43 years, 3,000 employees and 1 company - The origins of Beca Sir Ron Carter became Managing Director of Beca in 1986, and was subsequently Chairman of the Beca Group until 2002. He was knighted for his services to engineering in 1998 and received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Auckland in 2001. In 2014, he became one of only 20 living New Zealanders to be made a member of the Order of New Zealand, the country's highest honour. He has be...
John Sax: From trading sports goods to a $1.3 billion project
May 20, 2019 02:03 - 52 minutes - 49.5 MBJohn Sax is the Founder and Executive Director of the Southpark Group of companies, which consists of around 60 individual companies. Southpark Corporation is currently developing a $1.3 billion project, Market Cove, in Mangere Auckland, creating over 1,600 terraced houses and apartments to house over 5,500 people. John is also the Founder of a non-profit organisation, For the Sake of our Children Trust, which helps strengthen communities for a brighter future for the next generation. Watc...
David Howell: How a kiwi succeeded in the most competitive market in the world
May 18, 2019 21:31 - 29 minutes - 28.4 MBDavid Howell started off in the small town of Havelock North, with a population in the tens of thousands. He is now the President and Founder of DHD Architecture & Design, an architecture firm he started in 1995 in central New York. Prior to starting DHD, David worked for Clodagh Design International. David established his first solo architecture practice in Auckland in 1990, before relocating to New York in 1992. He now employs 22 people, including 6 Kiwis, and has been living in New York...
Jason Gunn: Stage lights to new heights - How an actor became an entrepreneur
May 18, 2019 03:03 - 46 minutes - 43.5 MBJason Gunn is well known throughout New Zealand for appearing on shows such as Son Of A Gunn in the late eighties and nineties, as well as Dancing With The Stars and The Wheel Of Fortune later on. He has won multiple awards for his work as a television presenter, including the Best Presenter, Entertainment/Factual Programme, in both the Qantas Film and Television Awards and the Air New Zealand Screen Awards. In 1998, he co-founded WhitebaitMedia with his wife, Janine Morell-Gunn. Based in C...
Simon Baker: How a former sales manager raised $10m for a global cricketing platform
May 17, 2019 03:59 - 35 minutes - 33.6 MBSimon Baker is the Founder of CricHQ, the world's largest cricketing platform. Since its launch in 2010, it has attracted investors such as Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum, raised US$10 million from a Singaporean investment fund, and secured 53 out of the world's 105 national governing bodies for cricket as clients. Watch Simon‘s interview on #Unfiltered: www.unfiltered.tv/public/simon-baker
John Riccitiello: "No one's lived a complete business experience if they haven't pushed against adversity."
May 15, 2019 22:32 - 34 minutes - 32.9 MBJohn Riccitiello is currently the CEO and Chair of Unity Technologies, developer of one of the world's most popular licensed game engines. Prior to this, he worked at Electronic Arts, first as COO from 1997 to 2004, and CEO from 2007 to 2013. During his tenure as COO, EA emerged as the world's largest maker of video games, with sales rising from roughly $650 million to more than $3 billion, and profit from $50 million to more than $500 million in fiscal year 2004. Between his tenures at EA,...
Josh Bayliss: From Mt Albert grammar to CEO of the Virgin Group by 38
May 13, 2019 22:24 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBAfter attending Mount Albert Grammar School and graduating from the University of Auckland School of Law in 1996 with a B.A. and LL.B with honors, Josh Bayliss worked in several law firms before becoming the General Counsel of the Virgin Group after an interview with Sir Richard Branson in the back of a taxi. Within 6 years and at just 38 years old, he had risen to Richard's second in charge as the CEO of the entire Virgin Group. Watch Josh's interview on #Unfiltered: www.unfiltered.tv/pub...
Karen Walker: From $100 in a friend's kitchen to a global brand in over 1,000 stores
May 13, 2019 02:35 - 37 minutes - 35.4 MBThe Founder of the internationally renowned fashion brand, Karen Walker started her business with just $100. Today, her designs have been worn by Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez and many others. Karen Walker is available at retail in 38 countries, 200 cities and 1,020 stores, including Barneys New York, Liberty London and Harvey Nichols. She has consistently ranked for the past four years in The Business of Fashion's powerhouse BoF 500, reflecting her position as a global industry figure shaping t...
Vaughan Rowsell: 15,000 stores, 140 countries & $40M in funding - In just 5 years
May 09, 2019 23:58 - 46 minutes - 43.6 MBVaughan Rowsell is the Founder and Chief Product Officer of Vend, a cloud-based point-of-sale retail management software. Vend is used by 15,000 stores across 140 countries and employs 200+ people. An experienced software engineer with more than 15 years experience, and a veteran of several start-ups, including Trade Me, Vaughan himself coded and publicly launched Vend in late 2010. Vend is now used in over 15,000 stores across 140 countries, employs over 200 staff and has raised nearly $5...
Malcolm Rands: Turning a passion into a multi-million dollar brand - using business to change the world
May 09, 2019 10:03 - 42 minutes - 39.8 MBMalcolm Rands, also known as The Eco Man, is the co-founder of ecostore, New Zealand's leading environmentally friendly household cleaning products. Coming up with the idea whilst living in a permaculture village with his family in Northland, Malcolm's ecostore brand now achieves annual revenues of more than $40 million and is stocked in supermarkets across the world. Malcolm was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to business, conservation and philanthropy; using his b...
Steve Brooks: Millionaire at 19 years old - lessons from a self-made entrepreneur
May 09, 2019 00:45 - 44 minutes - 41.9 MBSteve Brooks is the Founder of My Group, which consists of the companies My Refund, My Body, My Bar, My Will, and My Accountant, amongst numerous others. A true entrepreneur, Steve dropped out of school at 16 years old, after qualifying as New Zealand's youngest real estate agent at just 14. Steve bought his first property at 16 for $89,000 and sold it for $145,000 six months later. At 18, he started his first business, Brooks Homes Ltd, and by 19 was a millionaire. Watch Steve‘s interview...
Derek McCormack: $400M budget, 28,000 customers and 3,000 staff - The business of tertiary education
May 08, 2019 00:48 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBDerek McCormack is the Vice-Chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand's newest and second largest university, which currently has over 28,000 students, more than 3,000 staff and a budget approaching $400 million. Derek holds a Master's degree in biochemistry and began his career as a biochemist before making the transition into educational leadership. Derek has held numerous positions in academia, including the National President of the Association of Staff in Tertiar...
Dame Rosanne Meo: The crucial difference between the board and management
May 06, 2019 21:37 - 42 minutes - 40.1 MBAmongst New Zealand's most accomplished Directors, Dame Rosanne Meo was the first female President of the Employers' Federation, has chaired TVNZ, and has sat on the board of Mercury Energy, Sky TV, Ports of Auckland, Forestry Corporation, and Baycorp. Dame Rosanne is renowned for bringing her business expertise into non-profit organisations such as the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra Trust Board, Liggins Institute, South Auckland Health Foundation and the Kelliher Charitable Trust. She wa...
Geoff Cranko: How to create a world-changing brand
May 05, 2019 22:29 - 47 minutes - 45 MBGroup Managing Partner of Strategy Design & Advertising, and has been developing and managing companies for over 25 years. Formerly the Managing Director Pacific of SGS, Geoff managed 1,500 people across 8 business units in 40 branches. Strategy Group now has 5 studios across 3 countries, and has worked with clients such as My Food Bag, Red Bull, Coca-Cola, and BMW. Along with facilitating, managing and developing the growth of the Strategy Group of companies, Geoff sits on several boards ...