Podcasts 🎧

Ready for 2025 Chaos? Make Uncertainty Your Superpower

Plus One NZ and Starlink teamup, SpaceX gets the greenlight, drone hysteria and NZ slips in global economic ranking.

Dec 18

Previously Unavailable raising $10m+ second Brand Fund

Plus Orion Health bought by Canadian firm in $200m deal, grim economic tidings delivered by Treasury and AI summaries cause headaches for Apple.

Dec 17

The New Startup Playbook: How New+Improved is Changing Who Gets to Be a Founder

Plus inside Air New Zealand’s plane of the future, Truckometer shows economy still in low gear and Google unveils its vision of 'agentic' AI for 2025.

Dec 11

Tradify: The Anatomy of a Successful Startup

Plus Google unveils mind-boggling new tech, scams up but losses down and lenders optimistic about 2025.

Dec 10

Pyper Vision aims to save aviation a fortune with better fog forecasting

Plus: Government announces Marsden Fund cuts, forecasting next OCR and Amazon wades into AI arms race.

Dec 4

Milking It: Can New Zealand’s Economy Thrive Beyond Dairy?

Plus AI security company Watchful raises $4.6m, Forsyth Barr ESG report released and Musk denied almost $100b.

Dec 3

New + Improved Ventures Raises $6M to Supercharge Startup Creation

Meet the team rewriting the playbook for Kiwi innovation.

Dec 2

Reserve Bank slashes Official Cash Rate by 50 points to 4.25%, signals further cut

Plus: Silicon Valley VC’s eyed to join Trump teams, Nanogirl Labs in liquidation and artists appear to leak OpenAI’s Sora model in protest.

Nov 27

AI-Led Growth in 2025: Transforming GTM for Efficiency and Competitive Edge

Plus Sunrise pre parties, Rocket Lab nabs Biden funding and the latest instalment of our new 'Beyond Borders' column with Heather Gadonniex

Nov 26

Halter takes top spot on 2024 Deloitte Fast 50

Plus: New figures show economy softening, economists warn Govt over cuts and the future of fusion.

Nov 20

Dawn Aerospace smash sound barrier and global records to make history

The Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft is now one of the fastest privately-developed aircraft on the planet and has achieved multiple world firsts.

Nov 19

The old idea that could be the future for trades payments.

When a client didn’t pay Max Semmons-Russell’s plumbing business for a completed $30k job it nearly knocked his company over.

Oct 29

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