Startup Theatre Podcast
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Episodes: 110
Description
Exploring the wins, challenges, & lessons from startups. Honest conversations, real insights, and everything in between.
Troy Hammond & Serge van Dam, with deep roots in the startup ecosystem in New Zealand and beyond, explore the world of startups, tech, markets, and media. They break down industry trends, uncover the realities of scaling companies, and share expert insights through candid conversations. Each episode features top founders, operators, investors, and innovators, offering lessons, perspectives, and stories from the frontlines of business and technology.
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The NZ Startup Trying to Save Music
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May 22, 2026 |
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Why New Zealand is Falling Behind
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May 06, 2026 |
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$2.8B in Insurance claims were denied last year: My AI is fixing it.
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Software Engineering is DEAD: This is what replaces you.
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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I Almost Lost Everything Building This Startup
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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How I’m Building a $1B AI Startup: Solo
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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How I went from sewing machines to building a global SaaS company
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Strategy Isn’t a Slide Deck: Systems Thinking in Startups
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Fireside Chats from Queenstown – Founders, Operators, and the Ecosystem Behind Episode 100
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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The UNTOLD Montoux story: THEY SUED US DEAD
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Rod Drury: From Xero to $2.1 Billion
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Bikes, Rats and Natural Perfume: The Wild Career of a kiwi globally
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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The Kiwi Who Cracked Silicon Valley: Now a partner at Andreessen Horowitz a16z
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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My software will power every health transaction worldwide within two years
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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The All-In Founder: How One Bet Sparked a New Superhuman AI
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Forget Silver Bullets: The Engineering Secret No One Told You About
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Why I had everything to lose on this startup.
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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This AI startup knows everything about you
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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This is why founders SUCCEED OR FAIL
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Revolutionising Food: The Future of Alternative Proteins
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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The Intersection of Science and Entrepreneurship
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Electrify Aotearoa Special ⚡️
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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I wanted to build something with passion and purpose.
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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SaaS is Dead. Long Live New SaaS.
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May 28, 2025 |
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How I scaled an engineering team to a 400m exit and why I am using AI to do it again.
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May 15, 2025 |
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How to build an AI Go-To-Market strategy.
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Hamish Edwards: How I founded a $20 Billion dollar company
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Lowry Gladwell: The secrets of SaaS revenue growth
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Rowan Simpson: The Man Behind NZ’s Most Successful Startups
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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PAM, My AI product takes care of your mental load 🤖🫶🏻
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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How Beastie Boys lead me to co-founding Xero and now Upstock 🚀
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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My tech will get you into your first home faster 🏠
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Global tech success and I have some unfinished business
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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90% of startups FAIL. Only 3% of our portfolio have failed 🤯
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Business is not boring with Simon Pound
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Making a documentary about Richie McCaw led me to a tech start-up
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Over half of NZ’s internet users are using TikTok 🤯
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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I have Aphantasia. The inability to visualise & I’m a VC!
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The future of digital currency is inevitable 💲
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Failure is not an option is stopping breast cancer.
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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A world where neither time nor talent is wasted
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Our commercial model is to make you wealthy
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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It's not "Survive to '25, it's Drive to '25"
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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"How I built New Zealand's most successful payroll company!"
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May 29, 2024 |
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New Zealand. You too can change the WORLD! 🌏
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May 23, 2024 |
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It takes a village to create 417 startups worth $1.3 B
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May 01, 2024 |
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Let me teach you the Dark Arts of building a SaaS business globally.
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Artificial Intelligence is here to solve healthcare: It’s VITAL
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Meet the NZ tech founder revolutionising how busy couples connect.
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Out with Mad Men suits, in with Tracksuits: How Conor Archbold is helping to bring brand back.
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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The compounding snowball is the only way to grow the New Zealand tech ecosystem.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Shaping the future of healthcare globally is 'Nervciting'
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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We sold our AI company to Apple for $200m before we even released the product
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The lighthouse tech companies are showing the path to the rest of the eccosystem
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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We built a $39B company in Canva, but we are only 1% of the way there
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Sometimes rockets blow up, so we are helping founders with a tractor.
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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My second time founding a successful SaaS company is Joyous
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Current startups have a real advantage as we've never known anything but famine
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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From NZ to space, from space to everywhere else. How I am sending rockets into space from NZ.
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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We exist within the world you’ve created. Bringing your avatar to life
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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We might be one of the largest companies on the planet.
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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#49, Dr Angela Lim, "An AI-powered mental health company"
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#48, Barney Chunn, "CONQAring the Construction Software Industry"
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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#47, Claudia Batten, "Think like a robot, act like a human"
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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#46, Marian Johnson, “The Prime Minister of Awesome”👩⚖️
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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#45, Nick Houldsworth, "If you are offered a seat on a rocketship, Just F*@kin Do It!"
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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#44, Justin Soong, “Hatching a unicorn” 🦄
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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#43, Miriana Lowrie, "A CEO's world is: Capital, Strategy & People"
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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#42, Barnaby Marshall, "The Truth About Advantage: Money Isn't Everything"
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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#41, Frances Valintine CNZM, "Follow the adrenaline of risk"
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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#40, David Downs, "A mild touch of awesome"
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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#39, Simon Brown, "Transforming Kids' Relationship with Money”
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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#38, Kirsti Grant & Phil Thomson, "Magical moments when fighting crime"
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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#37, Bobby Lloyd, "It pays to be Fussy when pivoting"
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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#36, Kat Lintott, "I'm a world builder"
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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#35, Mark Vivian, 'The $600m dollar man'
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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#34, Pene Barton, "I knew at 23 I would be the CEO"
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May 31, 2023 |
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#33, Charlie Meaden, "Can AI democratise wealth generation for everyone?"
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May 29, 2023 |
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#32, Brooke Roberts, "Want to go Sharesies in some wealth?"
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May 24, 2023 |
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#31, Season 1 wrap, "What makes you happy?"
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May 18, 2023 |
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#30, Mike Riversdale & Raj Khushal, "What makes you happy now"
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May 03, 2023 |
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#29, Matthew Hayter, "We got acquired before we had even started" 🤯
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#28, Carlos Chambers, "Burning the effigy of being a lawyer and founding companies from the ashes 🔥"
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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#27, John-Daniel Trask, "Are tech companies now just adult daycares?"
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#26, Mary Haddock-Staniland, "A mana enhancing wahine"
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#25, Mark Clare, "Deal fever"
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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#24, Kimberley Gilmour, "Highs, lows and comebacks"
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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#23, Lee Timutimu, "Ka mua, ka muri"
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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#22, Rachael (Fitzy) Fitzjohn, "I'm not non technical, I'm technical adjacent"
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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#21, Vaughan Fergusson, "Innovating impossible"
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#20, Andréa van der Meel, "Changing the world through consideration"
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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#19, Danny Smith, The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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#18, Joel Lieser, "The Netflix recommendation engine for Weed"
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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#17, Dale Clareburt, When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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#16, James Fuller, In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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#15, Jess Halley, What can anthropology teach us about startups?
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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#14, Miki Szikszai, A failed pilot who built a top gun grad programme.
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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#13 - Adrienne Muir, Hands on the heart of the business
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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#12 - Jonty Hodge, Getting Kepla on the 'Awesome Index'
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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#11 - Owen Evans, "Enable a space where great work can happen"
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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#10 - Julie Reddish, Engineering Happiness in tech.
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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#9 - Andrew "Tokes" Tokeley, Product Leaders & community
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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#8 - Kristen Lunman, Say yes to the unknown.
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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#7 - Ben Pujji, I need two out of three.
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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#6 - Diana Minnée, Pattern matching
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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#5 - Mike Dawes, Knocking out suicide.
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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#4 - Auriga Martin, Positivity, purpose and innovation.
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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#3 - Simon Small, A serendipitous journey riding the SaaS elevator
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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#2 - Alicia McKay, Burnouts and Bourbon
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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#1 - Serge van Dam, Embracing uncertainty.
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Dec 09, 2022 |