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Ep.112 – How To Build & Sell A $500M Company. And What Do You Do Next?
[podcastfooter] What exactly does one do after they sell their business for $500m? Vaughan Fergusson, founder of Vend, dropped in for a fireside chat with editor Andre Rowell at the M2 Summit to give us the insight and impart with some wisdom on just how he grew his business to that astonishing value. Fergusson […]
Ep.107 – The ‘Overnight Success’ 10 Years In The Making
[podcastfooter] If you were to make a list of guaranteed, instant money-making industries, I’m not sure how far down you’d have to go before you reached the umbrella industry, but I’d imagine it wouldn’t be near the top. It’s in an industry, that in order to really succeed, you’d have to come up with […]
Ep.106 – How to Close The Wealth Gap With Skills, Not Luck
[podcastfooter] While riding the dizzying highs and lows of short-term stock trading often draws most of the interest from the younger generation, commercial property investment still stands as one of the safest bets on the investment market. However, the problem of the day is that young people don’t have the knowledge to get themselves […]
Ep.105 – How Solving Our High Asthma Rates Starts at Home
[podcastfooter] We might not think of it as a big deal when compared with more urgent diseases or medical conditions, but asthma has become a concerningly significant presence in Kiwis lungs. How has this happened? Well, Asthma NZ CEO Katheren Leitner broke down the causes, effects and what we need to do to turn […]
Ep.104 – Have We Found The Fountain Of Youth?
[podcastfooter] While we will likely always be restricted by our own mortality, humans have, seemingly forever, spent immense amounts of time and resources searching for the proverbial fountain of youth and clamouring ways to prolong their lives. As we head into what he calls the ‘coming era of longetivity’, anti-ageing expert Greg MacPherson took […]
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19 Lockdown Lessons For Life & Success
To say that the last couple of months have been a roller coaster of emotions, uncertainty, worry, loss and bubbles is a little bit of an understatement. But in spite of the negatives, there is still a place for optimism and silver linings and always a place for lessons. Over the course of varying levels […]
‘You’ve got less than a year to live.’ How Being A GMO Beat Cancer
The following is the transcript of a talk by David Downs at the M2 Summit, 20 November 2019. David Downs works with the technology sector to help fast growing tech companies grow internationally, and leading a cross-government project for the agritech sector For more information on our Summits, visit M2summit.co.nz My story starts about […]
The Importance Of Storytelling
The following is the transcript of a talk by James Hurman at the M2 Summit, 20 November 2019. James is the founder and CEO of Storytech, a ‘brand strategy in a box’ digital platform for startups and small businesses. He is also the founder of Toothcrush, a subscription service shipping eco-friendly bamboo toothbrushes to subscribers […]
The Movement Agency
A decade ago, when the GFC put the squeeze on businesses and advertising budgets and the digital age set about disrupting media and marketing, Duncan Shand and Ben Young decided that it was a good time to start an advertising agency. Turns out they were right. YoungShand has grown into one of the country’s top […]
The future of how humans interact with technology
This is a really, really important topic for us human beings, because we are entering an era just now where machines are going to become a bigger and bigger part of our lives. Artificial intelligence, robots, all these things that science fiction has imagined, are going to start becoming part of our day-to-day lives. Talk […]
What NZ industries have the most exciting opportunities over the next 5 years?
David Downs is the General Manager of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, he helps fast growing New Zealand tech companies grow internationally, and leads a cross-government project for the agritech sector. David shares his cancer journey and on the power of positive thinking and optimism. What is your morning routine? My father still has a […]
Using Platforms To Create Sustainable Mobility
Cities around the world are really in a fundamental period of growth and change. Australian and New Zealand cities are needing to accommodate some of the highest rates of population growth in the OECD. They’re also dealing with an aging population, climate change, huge technological advances and evolving economies both on the national and global […]
How To Push The Boundaries Of Innovation & Technology To Create Global Solutions From New Zealand
One of the values of Rush is how to push the boundaries. It’s something that we instill in our staff and it’s something that’s culturally really important to our company. So what I mean by my topic is, how do you do something totally new? How do you do something innovative and apply technology and […]
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How the gig economy is changing the future of work – Brittany Earl
Brittany started her career as a lawyer at Haigh Lyon Lawyers but soon realised that being a lawyer was not for her. It was at this point she began to brainstorm business ideas and eventually had the inspired idea for Joblist. She progressed the concept of the platform and then pitched the idea to two […]
How To Maximise Human User Experience – Drew Knowles
Drew Knowles has over 20 years experience in the field of human performance and behaviour, facilitating programmes to over 15,000 people globally. His current company Influence Ecology are the leading business education in Transactional Competence, teaching the fundamentals of human exchange and influence to ambitious business professionals all over the world. What is your morning […]
The future of how humans will interact with technology – Greg Cross
Greg Cross is the Co-Founder of Soul Machines, a ground-breaking high tech company of AI researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, artists and innovative thinkers; re-imagining how we connect with machines. Greg also co-founded PowerbyProxi a company that was sold to Apple in 2017. What is your morning routine? Up at 4:30 am, early calls to Northern […]
M2 Summit: Talking To MediaWorks CEO Michael Anderson
Michael joined MediaWorks in 2016 from Australia where he was the chairman of Oztam and oOH! Media, and a non-executive Director of Fairfax Australia. Prior to his board tenure, Michael spent seven years as CEO of one of Australia’s largest commercial radio groups, Austereo, and before that as their Group Director of Sales. With Michael […]
M2 Success Summit With Sir George Fistonich
On Friday 22 February 2019, 130 business minds became part of a community of professionals inspired by fellow New Zealand leaders and visionaries, celebrating success, sharing business insights and building key relationships. Our Editor, Andre Rowell, talked to inspiring business leaders who are executing on a local and global scale, including Sir George Fistonich, Founder […]
M2 Success Summit
On Friday 22 February 2019, 130 business minds became part of a community of professionals inspired by fellow New Zealand leaders and visionaries, celebrating success, sharing business insights and building key relationships. Our Editor, Andre Rowell, talked to inspiring business leaders who are executing on a local and global scale, including Sir George Fistonich, Founder […]