Latest Nz careers Podcast Episodes
Future State: Idea to Impact – understanding circular business
Business Is Boring - May 06, 2024 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBernard Hickey steps in to host a special live panel featuring three leaders in circular business, bio-materials and turning trash into treasure share their experiences in building better systems for business. Hear from Jayden Klinac of Anew, who replaces plastic with bio-materials; Sara Smeath f...
Introducing Behind the Story: If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its sh*t
Business Is Boring - May 03, 2024 20:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Spinoff has just launched a brand new series called Behind the Story, where site editor editor Madeleine Chapman sits down with a staff writer or contributor to gain more insight about a big story on The Spinoff from the week. We thought you might like to check out the first episode, and if y...
The new Aotearoa lead of Australasia’s biggest VC firm
Business Is Boring - April 22, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBlackbird VC recently netted $800m from a sale of a portion of their holding in Canva. They are, by some distance, the largest and one of the most successful VC firms in Australasia. In Aotearoa they have backed Tracksuit, Veve, Partly and Halter and their work to lift up the venture ecosystem in...
Has the AR/VR moment arrived?
Business Is Boring - April 15, 2024 17:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJessica Manins is a Kiwi pioneer in the Augmented and Virtual Reality space. Her studio, Beyond, makes games, experiences and virtual worlds for immersive entertainment and storytelling. They are one of the first developers to be releasing a game for the new Apple Vision Pro, and they have been l...
David Yu: 2023 EY entrepreneur of the year with Aotearoa’s fastest growing company
Business Is Boring - April 08, 2024 17:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDavid Yu’s company VeVe has sold more than 10 million digital collectables licensed from some of the world’s leading IP owners like Disney, Star Wars, Marvel, Lamborghini, and James Bond. As leaders in this fast growing space they have grown so fast they won the 2023 Deloitte Fast 50, and David w...
How Albert Cho went from IG influencer to Ponsonby restaurateur
Business Is Boring - April 01, 2024 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAlbert Cho burst onto Aotearoa’s food scene in 2017 with Eat Lit Food, an Instagram account that dishes out forthright (and often profane) food reviews to an ever-expanding audience. What started as an attempt to redefine a problematic relationship with food quickly grew into a fully fledged care...
Improving the food system, one wonky box at a time
Business Is Boring - March 25, 2024 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe first seeds for Wonky Box were planted when Angus Simms and Katie Jackson were fruit picking and saw how much wasted produce was caused by an unseasonal hail storm. The fruit was perfectly edible but aesthetically imperfect, so it was all left on the trees. This shock led to a now national fo...
The AI tools every business should already be using
Business Is Boring - March 18, 2024 16:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAI is the biggest topic in business, but where do you even begin? Mark Laurence, founder of Ten Past Tomorrow, is a local expert helping businesses get at the front of the AI curve. He joins Simon Pound to chat the tools every business needs, the rewards and risks of AI and just how close we are ...
Designing a te ao Māori agency
Business Is Boring - March 11, 2024 16:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRun is a local design and creativity business led with a te aō Māori and treaty partnership view. Their approach to inclusion is changing up how the industry looks at diversity at both a local and international level, making waves recently with their beautiful Manaakitanga D&AD Pencil project. Ra...
How to grow NZ Inc
Business Is Boring - March 04, 2024 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSimon Robertson has had a huge career in finance. In New York, for Goldman Sachs, he led up international and pan-Asian equities, before coming back to New Zealand to lead a large project for Rank Group, the private company of Graeme Hart, aka NZ's most successful businessperson. Simon is now a c...
Redefining the menstrual experience with Endosoothe
Business Is Boring - February 26, 2024 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLike so much of women’s health, natural and normal issues around periods are chronically underfunded, under-discussed and under-addressed. One local brand is working to change this. Endosoothe offers products, support and awareness building to empower and educate people who have periods. Founder ...
How Powrsuit is changing the face of leadership
Business Is Boring - February 19, 2024 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn Aotearoa only 10% of corporate CEOs and 29% of board members are women. Powrsuit co-founders Kristen Lunman and Natalie Ferguson believe this represents the largest potential to improve NZ business. Powrsuit is a self-described "leadership playbook", offering courses, podcasts and resources an...
The company making sustainable practice fashionable
Business Is Boring - February 12, 2024 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPangaia sell clothes in order to keep improving the methods of retail and production. Eva Kruse, Chief Global Engagement Officer at Pangaia, talked to us as part of Spark’s Future State series. Eva is a pioneer in sustainable fashion, spearheading the Copenhagen Fashion Summit and Global Fashion ...
Setting the right sustainability strategy for your business
Business Is Boring - February 05, 2024 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRecorded live at the Spark Innovation Studio in Auckland's CBD, Leela Gantman (Corporate Relations and Sustainability Director at Spark NZ) and Rachel Brown (CEO at the Sustainability Business Network) join us to discuss how companies of all sizes can bake better sustainable practices into their ...
The VC firm that raised like a founder
Business Is Boring - January 29, 2024 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIcehouse Ventures invests in and supports more companies than any other in Aotearoa, so naturally CEO Robbie Paul gets a good view of what makes a great company, founder and ecosystem. He joins us to talk about the state of VC today, Icehouse's recent raise of $10m and whether a lack of money is ...
The solvable problem affecting up to one in three women
Business Is Boring - January 22, 2024 16:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDon’t underestimate the power of the pelvic floor. That’s the advice of Dr Jenny Kruger when it comes to combatting urinary incontinence, an issue affecting up to one in three women that is common but not normal. The correct exercises can - in about 80% of cases - help stop leakage, and her compa...
The legend behind Aotearoa's favourite brands
Business Is Boring - January 15, 2024 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNicola O’Rourke led Lewis Road Creamery into America and is now helping companies like Pals, Compostic, Comvita, Cleanery and Grater Goods as they take on the world. She discusses all aspects of her career and gives vital advice for anyone building their brand, products or businesses. Learn more ...
Summer reissue: Meet the brain behind Xero and Upstock
Business Is Boring - January 08, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBusiness is Boring is taking a break over summer. We'll be back soon with new episodes but, until then, here's one of our favourites from 2023: Xero has defined the SaaS ecosystem here. Although an accounting company, it stood out as a delightful experience and brand, and much of that spirit is t...
Summer reissue: Fixing your finances with the Māori Millionaire
Business Is Boring - January 01, 2024 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBusiness is Boring is taking a break over summer. We'll be back soon with new episodes but, until then, here's one of our favourites from 2023: Te Kahukura Boynton is on a mission to give more Māori financial independence. Through her Māori Millionaire media and financial literacy platform she ha...
Summer reissue: The app making it easier to share your Dosh
Business Is Boring - December 25, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsBusiness is Boring is taking a break over summer. We'll be back soon with new episodes but, until then, here's one of our favourites from 2023: Shane Marsh and James McEniery discovered New Zealand is well behind the rest of the world when it comes to transferring money between banks when they we...
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023
Business Is Boring - December 18, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsSUPERPOD is back! Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime's Toby Manhire and featuring Jane Yee and Alex Casey from The Real Pod, Duncan Greive from The Fold, Gone By Lunchtime's Annabelle Lee-Mather, Simon Pound from Business Is Boring, Bernard Hickey from When The Facts Change and The Spinoff Podcast Netwo...
Goldie wants to help you own your own slice of luxury
Business Is Boring - December 11, 2023 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNew investment platform Goldie is allowing people to own fractionalised slices of real assets like gold and, into the future, art and collectables. They buy gold bars, and then issue shares in them at the global spot price, which you can then choose to sell or hold. It’s a new idea, trekking a si...
Why Unyoked thinks we should disconnect
Business Is Boring - December 04, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsUnyoked provide busy city people access to just-secluded-enough getaways, where the carefully art-directed cabins let people disconnect from modern life and connect to nature. Having already established itself in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Unyoked has raised around $30m to expand into Eur...
How can you change the world at scale?
Business Is Boring - November 27, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJustin Kamine’s family business is a significant infrastructure player in the States, and they have used their scale to change up a number of huge industries - from carbon reduced chicken farming at Do Good Foods, to bioplastics made from seaweed, to clean energy and the future of natural health....
Meet one of the Champions of the Earth
Business Is Boring - November 20, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsInternational circularity and sustainability expert Dr. Leyla Acaroglu believes that we can change the world with our actions if we care enough to do so. She joins Simon Pound in connection to the Spark Lab Future State series to discuss founding her creative agency Disrupt Design and the award-w...
Critical's solution to plastic-packed landfills
Business Is Boring - November 06, 2023 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe send around 330,000 tonnes of used plastics to landfill every year. Critical are out to change this. They make table and bench tops, partitions and other feature materials for building from plastic waste. Upcycling rubbish into beautiful, low carbon and endlessly recyclable materials. Co-found...
The zero-alcohol beer hero
Business Is Boring - October 30, 2023 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsState of Play is a 100% non-alcoholic brewery - part of a growing movement looking at how we drink, and providing options for healthier relationship with booze. Founder Grant Caunter spent 25 years building beer brands and growing the craft movement, before quitting drinking, losing 45kg and gett...
Reimagining customer testing with Stickybeak
Business Is Boring - October 23, 2023 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt’s fast, cost effective, engaging and being used by big and small brands all over the world. Stickybeak is creating a unique form of consumer testing that customers actually want to engage with. CEO Anna Henwood joins Simon Pound to chat about her path to leadership through Tourism NZ and Les M...
How Ministry of Awesome gives hope to start-ups
Business Is Boring - October 16, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMarian Johnson has been a key part of Christchurch becoming one of the fastest growing ecosystems for start-up success. As the CEO of Ministry of Awesome, Marian works to increase start-up diversity in all senses, with partnerships and leading the Electrify Aotearoa women’s founders conference. M...
OpenStar's nuclear solution to solve clean energy
Business Is Boring - October 09, 2023 16:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIt’s been called the most ambitious startup in Aotearoa and a company that truly has the potential to change the world. OpenStar CEO and founder Dr Ratu Mataira shares his journey with Simon Pound, from starting his company, where he's at on his mission and what his vision could mean for the worl...
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