Sonya Williams, Brooke & Leighton Roberts, Sharesies
The Morgo Podcast
It’s rare to have 3 co-founders still running the company as co-CEOs 8 years after it started and great to hear how they interact! Sharesies mission is to provide financial empowerment to everyone. Sonya, Leighton & Brooke talk about growing Sharesies to 800,000 users & $9 bn under management. 200 people work in the company, which now helps people manage wealth, connects companies to shareholders, and has technology it will productise.
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Desiree de Spong, Medella Health
The Morgo Podcast
Desiree shares how she developed Flowpresso, a Class II medical device designed to reset the body through lymphatic therapy. Using compression, heat, and pressure, it helps clear cellular waste, improve sleep, reduce stress, and support recovery—especially after illness. Now used in clinics across the US, NZ, Australia, India, Canada, and the UK. A great story of developing a product to fit a market Desiree knows well.
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Ben Powles, Building Engineering & Design Co
The Morgo Podcast
Building Engineering & Design Co (BEDC) takes architectural plans and turns them into structural plans using a human-augmented, patented AI platform. In just 5 years the company has grown to over 450 people: a large design team in the Philippines and people in market in NZ, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK. Ben talks about successful market entry using a channel partner. His advice on how to scale fast: hire great people and retain them.
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Ed Harvey, Evnex
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Evnex makes charging solutions for electric vehicles. Ed talks about spending a year developing their first electric charger, then working out how to turn a technology into a company: better understanding the market, learning how to raise money and how to hire people. Now there are a lot of competitors & a slowdown in the market so he needs to think deeply about how to win. Ed’s advice for success: play to win – narrow your focus to something at which you can be the best.
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Emily Blythe, Pyper Vision
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Worldwide fog disrupts 620M passengers & costs airlines billions in rescheduling fees every year. Emily started Pyper Vision to disperse fog at airports but then realised that the biggest problem is vague forecasting of fog leading to cancelling far more flights than necessary. Pyper Vision switched to fog forecasting using a deep learning model. They can now give a fog forecast for every minute of the next 4 hours. Their first airline customer goes live this month.
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Axton Pitt, Litmaps
The Morgo Podcast
Litmaps is a Literature Discovery Tool that helps researchers to find vital scientific papers they didn't know about and to tell a better research story. A Litmap is a picture that shows the relationship between a collection of scientific papers based on their citations, popularity and currency. Litmaps is now used by researchers, students and professionals across 150 countries. Axton talks about what he’s learned in starting the business and in moving from CTO to CEO.
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Ian McCrae, Orion Health
The Morgo Podcast
This podcast celebrates a hero of the NZ tech sector: Ian founded Orion Health over 30 years ago - the first company in Auckland to have internet! Orion builds products that link healthcare systems together. It has spun off a number of products along the way. Orion - the 2 major products and most of the staff – is being sold for over $200M, while 3 younger products and 100 people are being spun off into McCrae Tech. Ian now calls himself Mr Odd Job Man.
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Max Arshavsky, Zenno
The Morgo Podcast
Max & co-founder Sebastian Wieczorek started space tech company Zenno to solve the problem of running out of fuel in space. Their solution is to use superconducting magnets fuelled by solar power to provide fully autonomous positioning of satellites. After 7 years work, they have solved the problems of operating their technology in space. (And have now announced their first commercial partnerships.) When asked what part of this was hard, Max replies “all of it”.
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Ron Tenenbaum & Tam Hankinson, The Clinician
The Morgo Podcast
The Clinician offers a digital platform that redefines healthcare by shifting funding from service delivery to measurable outcomes. Founded by Ron, a former neurosurgeon, and Tam, with experience in pharma and business intelligence, the company blends medical, technical and commercial expertise. They've scaled the business to over 50 employees globally with clients in 7 countries, leading a transformation in healthcare funding and delivery.
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David Sweas with Dodson Group
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The Dodson Group is a precision manufacturer, #1 in the automotive niche of high horsepower transmission upgrades. It has diversified into other markets such as aerospace, agriculture, marine, & green energy by acquiring its largest local suppliers. David took over as CEO of Dodson five years ago and has grown the business from 17 to 75 people. David is a former automotive engineer and investment banker who wanted to build a business, and Dodson was a perfect fit.
info_outlineThe Clinician offers a digital platform that redefines healthcare by shifting funding from service delivery to measurable outcomes. Founded by Ron, a former neurosurgeon, and Tam, with experience in pharma and business intelligence, the company blends medical, technical and commercial expertise. They've scaled the business to over 50 employees globally with clients in 7 countries, leading a transformation in healthcare funding and delivery.