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

Les Mills was the Auckland Olympian who opened a gym in 1968. He died on 29 June 2026, aged 91. The global brand that carries his name is what his family built from that room.

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Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires

Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires

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Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned

Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned

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Control, Not Scale: Six New Zealand Women Who Redefined Success

Control, Not Scale: Six New Zealand Women Who Redefined Success

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Boring on Purpose: The NZ Founders Who Built Moats Out of Regulation

Boring on Purpose: The NZ Founders Who Built Moats Out of Regulation

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Christchurch Founder Launches LDOO, the Tool That Lets You Ask Your Data a Question

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.

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Fix the Product or Fix the Person: How NZ Fintech Founders Disagree About Money

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Business Leader & Philanthropist, Gattung Foundation

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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 Staff2 weeks ago

Sell, Stay or Franchise: Three Ways a New Zealand Brand Goes Global

Five NZ brands, three routes to going global, and what each one cost. Sell, stay independent, or franchise the model.

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New Zealand Food-Tech Startups to Watch

New Zealand Food-Tech Startups to Watch

New Zealand’s economy runs on food, and a growing group of founders are now applying biology, engineering and data to how protein itself is made.

Noteworthy Staff3 weeks ago

What Is Precision Fermentation?

What Is Precision Fermentation?

The “fermentation” part has been with us for millennia, bread, beer, cheese, yoghurt. The “precision” part means using modern biology to make a microbe.

Noteworthy Staff4 weeks ago

How SYSCA Built a Global Youth Media Brand From New Zealand

How SYSCA grew from a Wellington university blog into a global, social-first youth media brand — and what other media founders can learn from it.

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Hengjie Wang

Hengjie Wang

Co-Founder & CEO, Kami

Phil Thomson

Phil Thomson

Co-Founder & CEO, Auror

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