The startup savant behind Trade Me and Xero
Feb 06, 2025•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Described by The Spinoff’s Duncan Greive as “the most important figure in New Zealand technology you’ve never heard of”, Rowan Simpson has had a guiding hand in Aotearoa’s most successful tech companies. His new book “How to be Wrong: a crash course in startup success” shares the close calls and near misses that happened behind the scenes at Trade Me, Xero and Vend.He talks to Bernard Hickey about his journey through tech, the keys to startup success, and whether he ought to have just bought in to residential property instead.
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