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How Graeme Hart Made His Money and Became New Zealand's Richest Man
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How Graeme Hart Made His Money and Became New Zealand's Richest Man

He left school at sixteen and became the wealthiest New Zealander who has ever lived. Graeme Hart made his fortune buying dull, essential businesses that the rest of the market had stopped paying attention to.

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Off the Map: The Kiwi Businesses Google Barely Shows
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Off the Map: The Kiwi Businesses Google Barely Shows

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OCC Apparel: The Ethical Apparel and Merchandise Partner for New Zealand Brands
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OCC Apparel: The Ethical Apparel and Merchandise Partner for New Zealand Brands

Noteworthy Staff1 week ago
Allbirds: The Kiwi Wool Shoe That Took On the World
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Allbirds: The Kiwi Wool Shoe That Took On the World

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Who is Les Mills? How an Auckland Olympian's Gym Became a Global Brand
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Who is Les Mills? How an Auckland Olympian's Gym Became a Global Brand

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Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires
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Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires

New Zealand's largest fortunes were built offshore by its most private people. What that says about the country depends on how you read the silence.

Noteworthy Staff6 Jul 2026
Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned
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Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned

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Founder, Samson Corporation

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Three food-tech founders, three bets on how to change what New Zealand sells the world. One broke, one held and one bet on the movement itself.

Noteworthy Staff5 Jul 2026
Control, Not Scale: Six New Zealand Women Who Redefined Success
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Control, Not Scale: Six New Zealand Women Who Redefined Success

The default measure of success is scale. Six NZ women defined it as control instead, from building an empire to keeping a label deliberately small.

Noteworthy Staff4 Jul 2026
Boring on Purpose: The NZ Founders Who Built Moats Out of Regulation
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Boring on Purpose: The NZ Founders Who Built Moats Out of Regulation

New Zealand celebrates consumer app heroes. Its most durable tech is built by founders who embed in regulated systems nobody notices.

Noteworthy Staff2 Jul 2026
Christchurch Founder Launches LDOO, the Tool That Lets You Ask Your Data a Question
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Christchurch Founder Launches LDOO, the Tool That Lets You Ask Your Data a Question

After twenty years in digital marketing, Gideon Banks has launched LDOO, a conversational analytics tool that answers plain-English questions about your data in seconds instead of building dashboards.

Noteworthy Staff1 Jul 2026
Fix the Product or Fix the Person: How NZ Fintech Founders Disagree About Money
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Fix the Product or Fix the Person: How NZ Fintech Founders Disagree About Money

Four NZ fintech founders, two theories of why people are locked out of money. One camp rebuilt the products. The other set out to teach.

Noteworthy Staff1 Jul 2026
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Co-Founder, Zuru

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Founder & Executive Chairman, Cooper and Company

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