Annie Taunga – Behind the scenes at Weta Digital
The Lord of the Rings holds a special place in Annie Taunga’s heart; it was her first visual effects project and the first time she saw her name in credits.
The series...
Q&A with Hamish McKenzie (the Kiwi co-founder of Substack) on how writers can make...
Michael Moore joined Substack the other day. So did Dan Rather, Alison Roman, and even Edward Snowden. They join Andrew Sullivan has joined Substack as have Glenn Greenwald, Cheryl Strayed, Patti...
Interview with utecture’s Kyle Donovan – on “game-changing” the building experience
utecture is a cloud-based digital building platform that combines dynamic design presentation, documentation and workflow management.
It offers builders simpler planning, faster decision-making, reduced duplication and greater accuracy and control over projects.
For...
Kiwi Youtuber remakes The Simpsons – Hit and Run in a week
A remake of the popular 2003 action/adventure game The Simpsons Hit & Run game has rocked the world of video game enthusiasts and it only took a week to achieve. Kiwi...
Shopify’s Shaun Broughton – on innovating in a pandemic, the future of shopping and...
For the uninitiated, Shopify isn’t a consumer-facing app you can shop through - although Shopify does have one of those Shop (but more about that below) - but an immensely-powerful commerce...
Interview with CENNZnet’s Nicole Upchurch – on its new Litho NFT marketplace and why...
Nicole Upchurch is CEO of CENNZnet, a New Zealand built public blockchain and Decentralised Application platform and has 15 years of experience transforming some of NZ’s largest companies through periods of...
Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app
Pavan Vyas is our quiet tech superstar. He arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant in the mid-90s, found he had a knack for coding and took computing at Auckland University....
Exclusive: James Dyson talks about talented Kiwis, embracing failure, and what happened to the...
For someone who has earned billions over a lifetime of design and engineering, at 75, Sir James Dyson is very willing to accept that not everything he touches turns to gold....
Enlighten Designs’ Damon Kelly – on creating technology that has a positive impact on...
Software and design companies come and go - few have been around as long as Hamilton-based Enlighten Designs which was formed in founder and CEO Damon Kelly’s caravan in 1998; today...
Interview with Snowball Effect’s – Simeon Burnett – “Right now it’s a great time...
If you’re a New Zealand business that wants to raise capital or an investor who wants to invest in a private company your first port of call is likely to be...














