Undersea Drones, Auckland Start up week, and Thematic’s Journey
Oct 28, 2025•53 min•Ep. 760
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Episode description
Hear from host Paul Spain and Alyona Medelyan (Thematic) as they discuss highlights from Auckland Startup Week, and review tech news from the week including, NZ’s undersea drone push to protect vital cables, Rural internet pressures amid Starlink’s rise, AWS DNS triggers widespread outages, major fraud stories span crypto empires and rigged poker. Plus, Alyona shares insights on leadership, startup culture lessons, and how Thematic helps businesses with customer feedback analytics.
A big thank you to our show partners One NZ, Spark, Workday, HP, 2degrees and Gorilla Technology.
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