Startup
At the start of the year I stepped out of the CEO role at Vend to enable us to find someone with mad skills to take us from $20m of revenue to $100m. We appointed Alex Fala (trusted right appendage and all round phenomenon) as acting CEO and I immediately
Culture
Dear start-up heroes, No, not you founders out there, although you are insanely heroic. I am writing to the women and men who fought tirelessly along side you in those critical early years. When it was all about to fail at any moment. To the heretics and weirdoes who
Startup
A few weeks ago I stepped out of the CEO role at Vend. Alex (CFO & Head of Strategy) and I mixed things up a bit. He jumped into the Acting CEO hat and I stepped out of the CEO role to take on the Founder & Chief Product Officer
Life
Today I turn the wisest age. 42. At the age of 42 I should possess all the wisdom to know the answer to life, universe and everything. Well, OK. Here it is: Optimise your life for joy. This comes from people and experiences, not things. That’s it. On people
Entrepreneurship
I founded Vend almost 6 years ago, and it’s amazing to look back on what has changed since then. I have grown a bit older and a lot greyer. It’s no longer just me, I have a couple of hundred amazing people around the globe on the team
Life Lessons
My goal is to live a full life. “Full” is fairly subjective I realise. I started out small and have been adding more and more as I go. I am getting better at this and consider myself a student of living a full and rewarding life. I hope to be
Challenge
UPDATE 2: Impossible singing challenge. 1st March I sang to an excited and patient crowd at The Winchester in Newton. I was joined for a collection of duets and some acoustic jams and it was fun. I didn’t get booed off so I consider this a success. We also
Public Speaking
I recently had the opportunity to share a very personal story at TEDxAuckland. It’s a story of doing impossible things, and how my mother inspired me to do so. The experience doing this talk was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Mainly because I got to share
Impossible
I recently had the opportunity to share a very personal story at TEDxAuckland. It’s a story of doing impossible things, and how my mother inspired me to do so. The experience doing this talk was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Mainly because I got to share
Productivity
This is a pretty typical view of my calendar, in fact this is next week and I haven’t even scheduled in all my catch ups and things to do yet. This is just the meeting requests! I also have to squeeze in things like “real work”. I consider this
Future
I was thinking about and progressing a five year goal of mine this morning and I realised something cool. Did you know that in 5 years it will be almost 2020? That is THE FUTURE. All of a sudden it felt to me that the future is almost here. You
Writing
Found this old story I wrote in a journal a few years back, from a previous life. Thought it fitting on this July eve sitting by the fire. — - My stove snaps and grumbles as it quietly snacks on the wood I feed it, loyal like my old dog was. I