Business is Boring #39: Sian Simpson of Kiwi Landing Pad, live from SaaStr

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. There’s a question many local businesses face as they scale: how can … Read more

Business is Boring #38: Vaughn Davis on his career in advertising and reaching good “work/life blend”

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. This week Simon is back in the very warm Spinoff studios talking … Read more

Business is Boring #37: Jen Ferguson and Glen Williams on expanding their beer, hot sauce & records empire

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. This week Simon is in merry old post-Brexit England, specifically East Dulwich … Read more

Business is Boring #36: Mike Murphy on building a business in an unexplored market

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Before organics, fair trade, sustainable choices and Vegetarian options were mainstream, Mike … Read more

Business is Boring #35: Simon Young on the power of social media and its influencers

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. In just a few years since the groundbreaking Free Trade Agreement in … Read more

Summer reissue: Business Is Boring #20 – Brooke Howard-Smith on how his million dollar failure led to success

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. In September Simon Pound spoke with telly star Brooke Howard-Smith about his little known past as a professional roller blade champion. What transpired was a story about how losing everything can be the best thing that ever happens to you. … Read more

Business is Boring #34: Pic Picot on making peanut butter the New Zealand way

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Today’s guest is one of the people I’ve been most excited to … Read more

Business is Boring #33: Deborah Pead on the evolution of PR

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. What do a revolution in middle-class cooking, a re-energised and more professional … Read more

Business is Boring: LIVE – The Art of Making Things Happen, with Dick, Otis and Sarah Frizzell

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. This week is a special Business is Boring, our first live event, … Read more

Business Is Boring #31 – Jessie Stanley of I Love Pies on the family touch behind business

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. The Lovely Little Food Company is a lovely, not so little, local … Read more

Business Is Boring #30 – AUT Vice-Chancellor Derek McCormack on the changing nature of work and education

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Making it in the modern economy is no easy thing. Traditional career … Read more

Business Is Boring #29 – Dale Clareburt on why hiring for culture trumps hiring for skills

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Perhaps the most important thing in a company’s success is hiring the … Read more

Business Is Boring #28 – James Hurman on why creative ads matter despite Facebook

This Bib edition is a chance to chat to a fellow who is extraordinarily influential internationally around a number of topics that this podcast is all about –innovation and creativity. If we’re going to get past growing trees, cows shitting in rivers and chasing sheep around we’re going to have to think our way out … Read more

Business Is Boring #27 – Kelvin Soh of DDMMYY / New New on the importance of believability

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Stolen Rum, 42 Below, Sans, Triumph and Disaster. Some of the greatest … Read more

Business Is Boring #26 – Anna Ross of Kester Black on how to avoid chasing debts

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. We’re in Melbourne for a international edition of Business Is Boring where … Read more

Business Is Boring #25 – Rod McDonald on combining business and nature to make excellent wine

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Since arriving in the Hawke’s Bay in 1993 with everything he owned … Read more

Business Is Boring #24 – the couple behind Cazador talk modernising an old favourite

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Down Auckland’s Dominion Rd, past the collection of Chinese restaurants and predating … Read more

Business Is Boring #23 – Alex Fala on the journey from Rhodes Scholar to CEO

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Today’s guest has built a career doing all the things that a … Read more

Business Is Boring #22 – Murray Crane on making clothes and surviving the New Zealand market

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Fashion is a notoriously hard business, especially fashion made in New Zealand. … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #21 – Ryan Baker on how working from home became a competitive advantage

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Although it probably shouldn’t be so newsworthy, it hit the headlines the … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #20 – Brooke Howard-Smith on how his million dollar failure led to success

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Many will know Brooke Howard-Smith from TV, as long time host of … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #19 – Angela and Anna of Double Denim on fighting the gender gap in advertising

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Women make 80 per cent of household purchasing decisions, yet the advertising … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #18 – James Crow of Nice Blocks on why paying staff a living wage is good for business

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. Today we’re joined by a great chap; he’s one half of Tommy … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #17 – Colart Miles on being agile and lean in business

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. How do companies that don’t have an innovation mindset get one? What … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #16 – Sarah Hopkinson on how to sell art

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. The art business is an interesting one. Gallery owners need to be … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #15 – Karen Walker

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. To people in New Zealand Karen Walker is a household name as a designer and … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #14 – Anna Guenther, CEO of PledgeMe

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt. One of the coolest things to happen to business has been the new democratic … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #13 – Nick McFarlane, designer and idea hunter

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and text. Creativity is one of those words like innovation that gets thrown around a lot, and we’re … Read more

Podcast: Business Is Boring #12 – Ian McCrae, Orion Health CEO, on what to do if you’ve got an old billboard lying around

‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and text. Orion Health is one of the big names in NZ tech, with 1250 staff, operations around … Read more