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The Business of Tech

The Business of Tech, hosted by leading tech journalist Peter Griffin. Every week they take a deep dive into emerging technology and news from the sector to help guide the important decisions all Business leaders make. Issues such as cybersecurity, retaining trust after a cyberattack, business IT needs, purchasing SaaS tools and more. New Episodes out every Thursday. Follow or subscribe to get it delivered straight to your favourite podcatcher. @petergnz @businessdesk_nz Proudly sponsored by

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49:36

Why big companies kill good ideas – and how to save them

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2026/04/15

Big organisations love to talk about innovation. They set up labs, hire “transformation” teams, and run hackathons. Yet inside many companies, the best ideas still die in PowerPoint decks or get buried in cautious business cases. In this week’s episode of The Business of Tech, I talk to Gravity cofounder James Boult, an innovation specialist who has spent years inside large New Zealand organisations, watching this play out in real time. Boult’s verdict is that most corporates

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39:52

From Leaf to lunch: the Canterbury startup rethinking...

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2026/04/08

Forget soy, pea, or lab-grown meat – the next frontier in sustainable food might just be hiding in plain sight. Specifically, in the leaves of everyday plants growing across New Zealand’s farmland. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech podcast, I talk to Ross Milne, the CEO of Rolleston-based startup Leaft Foods, which has pioneered a breakthrough technique to extract and process Rubisco, a naturally occurring protein found in every green leaf. Scientists have long known

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43:11

RUC shock: the future of pay‑per‑kilometre driving

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2026/04/01

New Zealand drivers are about to discover a whole new way of paying to use the roads – and for most, it will be a shock. For decades, petrol and diesel motorists have funded the transport network through fuel excise quietly folded into every litre at the pump - currently a 70c tax. Soon, that largely invisible tax will give way to something much more visible – paying per kilometre under an expanded road user charge (RUC) system. On the latest episode of The Business of Tech, I talk to

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35:15

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

The Business of Tech ·

2026/03/25

This week on The Business of Tech, I talk to Inspired Education founder Nadim Nsouli to explore a bold experiment in AI‑driven schooling that will reach Auckland primary students from 2027. Inspired Education operates seven ACG private primary schools in New Zealand, including five in Auckland, focusing on personalised learning. A new learning programme, Inspired Edge Academy, compresses the traditional core curriculum – English, maths, science, computing and languages – into three

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45:56

Too small is a tech myth – Mehran Gul on NZ’s real...

The Business of Tech ·

2026/03/18

Why do some places become tech powerhouses while others, just as smart and connected, stall out? In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, global innovation expert Mehran Gul, a former policy expert at the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations, dispels the myths about where breakthrough technology happens – and gives his take on what New Zealand should do to improve its innovation game. Gul’s new book, The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough

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32:24

AI’s Kiwi gatekeeper inside Microsoft

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2026/03/11

When global giants argue about which AI models are safest, smartest and ready for prime time, a New Zealander in Redmond, Washington is one of the people making the call. Steve Sweetman leads the team at Microsoft's global headquarters deciding which AI models make it onto Microsoft Foundry – the platform that now offers more than 10,000 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, DeepSeek, Microsoft’s own labs and others, to customers around the world. Sweetman studied architecture at Unitec

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39:41

Australia's new unicorn and its digital twins

The Business of Tech ·

2026/03/04

This week on The Business of Tech, I talk to Neara co‑founder Jack Curtis about how a “physics-based digital twin” of electricity grids is changing the way we plan, build and protect electricity infrastructure – from Taranaki to Texas. Neara has just raised A$90 million in a Series D round led by US investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), which also invested in Netflix, Spotify, Facebook and Xero. That takes total funding in Neara to about A$180 million, as some of the

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37:50

Inside the levitation lab: OpenStar’s quest for...

The Business of Tech ·

2026/02/25

A half-tonne metal “donut” silently floating in a vacuum chamber in Wellington might sound like science fiction. But as you’ll hear in the latest episode of The Business of Tech, it’s very real – and it could reshape New Zealand’s role in the global race for nuclear fusion. This week, I sit down with BusinessDesk journalist Greg Hurrell to unpack OpenStar’s dramatic new milestone: levitating a superconducting dipole in a near-perfect vacuum and firing

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47:52

The OpenClaw moment and what it means for AI

The Business of Tech ·

2026/02/18

OpenClaw is the moment AI stops feeling like a clever chatbot and starts behaving like something closer to a digital co-worker. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, you’ll hear exactly why. Veteran software developer and AI entrepreneurMike Hall joins me to break down what OpenClaw actually is in plain language. It’s not another prompt-and-response assistant, but a particularly smart type of AI agent that can wake itself up on a schedule, scan your data and tools, and decide

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43:43

New Zealand’s energy crunch: Can innovation keep the...

The Business of Tech ·

2026/02/11

New Zealand loves to boast about its clean, green energy story. With around 80 to 90% of grid electricity coming from renewable sources like hydro, wind and geothermal, we look like one of the world’s quiet success cases on decarbonisation. But beneath that headline number lies a much more precarious reality. When lake levels fall and gas supplies tighten, our energy system starts to look very exposed. In the latest episode ofThe Business of Tech, I sit down with Melissa Reynolds‑Clarke and

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47:17

MethaneSAT: Unpacking New Zealand’s $30 Million space...

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2026/02/04

In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, we look at the rise and fall of MethaneSAT, the $30 million national space project that was supposed to cement New Zealand as a serious spacefaring nation. Instead, it became a case study in governance failure, misaligned incentives and lost opportunity. Launched in March 2024 and lost in June 2025 after persistent spacecraft glitches, MethaneSAT’s methane-sniffing science payload worked but the rest of the system carrying it in space failed

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56:07

Robots and the new physical AI gold rush

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2026/01/28

Two Kiwi engineers who helped build the future of self‑driving cars in Silicon Valley are now quietly laying the foundations for the next great tech wave: physical AI. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, I talk to Harry Mellsop, co‑founder of simulation startup Antioch, and Adrian Macneil, co‑founder and CEO of data platform Foxglove, for a fast‑paced tour of where robotics is really at as Elon Musk talks up his Optimus humanoid robots. Both founders cut their teeth at the pointy end of

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64:24

AI slop, smart rings and riding the S-curve: The year...

The Business of Tech ·

2025/12/17

“Never a dull moment” is how Wellington-based veteran consumer tech reviewer and commentator Pat Pilcher describes the year in tech after relentless product launches, an “utterly insane” Black Friday sales season and the “enshitification” of the internet, thanks in large part to AI. In our final episode of The Business of Tech for 2025, Pilcher joins the show to break down the biggest trends of 2025 and what’s coming in 2026, from AI agents and smart rings

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44:27

How cheap drones became the defining weapon of modern...

The Business of Tech ·

2025/12/10

Drones have gone from hobbyist toys to decisive tools of war and essential infrastructure for industry. Few people have had a better vantage point on that shift thanFenixUAS founder Dr Andrew Shelley. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech podcast, the economist and aviation specialist explains how a decade of incremental innovation has transformed uncrewed aircraft into platforms that can reshape modern warfare, agritech and even search and rescue. From DIY quadcopters to smart weapons New

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45:21

The Kiwi fintech startup hacking the admin hell out...

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2025/12/03

In the creaky world of financial advising, where compliance paperwork devours hours and clunky software feels like a relic from the dial-up era, a New Zealand startup is deploying AI to free advisers from the drudgery. Marloo, co-founded by Hardy Michel, who cut his teeth as head of operations at Wellington-based share trading platform Sharesies, isn't building robo-advisers to supplant humans. Instead, he is using artificial intelligence to free up advisors so they can focus on the trust-building

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37:29

How Tracksuit turned brand data into a global growth...

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2025/11/26

In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, Tracksuit co-founder and chief commercial officer Matt Herbert explains how the startup is using brand data to help marketers navigate an era of economic uncertainty, shifting consumer behaviour and AI-driven search. “The edge that we brought to it was simplifying the fundamentals and making it incredibly accessible,” he says of Tracksuit’s dashboard of brand tracking indicators, which is now used by over 1,000 customers globally to

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42:46

Inside the AI race: Energy use, agents and the real...

The Business of Tech ·

2025/11/19

Reporting from the front line of the artificial intelligence revolution,Time magazine reporter Harry Booth has a unique perspective on the technology moving markets and transforming business. The London-based University of Auckland graduate has been part of Time’s team of AI reporters for the last 16 months, his byline regularly appearing in the pages of the iconic news magazine. This week’s episode of The Business of Tech podcast features an in-depth conversation with Booth, who gave me

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39:07

Banking unleashed: What the new open banking regime...

The Business of Tech ·

2025/11/12

After years of anticipation and frustration over slow progress, New Zealand’s open banking era is about to become a reality. On December 1, official regulations come into effect, bringing sweeping change to how Kiwis access and control their financial data. Akahu co-founder Josh Daniell, whose platform already integrates with more than 85 products that draw on consumers’ bank data thanks to voluntary agreements in place, joined the Business of Tech podcast to unpack what the new regime

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33:24

Oppo’s bid to crack NZ’s smartphone duopoly

The Business of Tech ·

2025/11/05

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is making an assertive play to shake up the $1.3 billion smartphone market in New Zealand, aiming to disrupt the long-standing duopoly of Samsung and Apple with a mix of tech innovation and brand-building efforts. In this week’s episode of The Business of Tech podcast, Oppo New Zealand Managing Director Morgan Halim shares insights on how the challenger brand, which claims around 10% of the local market, is reimagining what Kiwi consumers can expect from their

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34:14

Rocket Lab at 20: From pipe dream to $50 billion...

The Business of Tech ·

2025/10/29

Rocket Lab is on the brink of turning 20 – and what began as one man’s dream in an Invercargill garage is now a Nasdaq-listed global space business valued at over NZ$50 billion. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, Sir Peter Beck joins me from Rocket Lab’s headquarters in Long Beach, California, to reflect on the company’s remarkable two decades of innovation and persistence – and how Rocket Lab continues to push the limits of what’s possible. A new book

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