Ground Breaking Podcast Eli Smit

Nick Hyland and his business partner Jacksen Love are two amazing entrepreneurs taking on the world of last-mile transport through Flamingo Scooters. In the face of major competition from global companies like Lime and Uber, Flamingo Scooters already have over 1,200 scooters across 3 major cities in New Zealand. 
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Ezel Kokcu is a serial entrepreneur on to her third startup Passphere; an analytics registration platform for large scale events and theme parks. Ezel also co-founded STQRY; an exploration app for museums and cultural sites. She raised over $7 million in VC funding, and had over 800 customers on the books before selling the company in 2016.
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Karl Budge is a strategic sports leader who has played a key role building the ASB Classic, WTA, Australian Open and FIFA brands globally.
Karl is about to bring one of the most exciting surf events New Zealand has ever had, the Corona Piha Pro.
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Welcome to Episode 30 and the launch of Season 3 of Ground Breaking Podcast.
This week I am speaking to Pablo Kraus the Managing Director of Ecostore.
Ecostore was initially founded on being an environmentally friendly brand but have evolved into a full health and wellbeing brand. This year they were voted New Zealand's most authentic brand beating brands like Apple, IKEA, Airbnb, Telsa and Air New Zealand.
Paul and his team have a dream to hold their own on the world stage and beat the likes of the $230 billion-plus valued Unilever.
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Pat Macfie is a creative leader who has just finished up as the Global Director of Media at Xero, ranked by Forbes as the Worlds Most Innovative Growth Companies.
Pat has built up a reputation of building high performing global creative teams and has partnered with several premium global brands across his career. Pat is passionate about his culture, storytelling and inspiring the next generation.
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This we dive into the world of Mike Van De Elzen an internationally renowned chef and restaurateur. Mike started his career in the food industry at the age of 14 cleaning dishes, and over the last 30 plus years of his career has run and owned some of Auckland’s landmark restaurants.
 
You are in for an interesting story this week and whether you are in the food business or not there are some great lessons for any budding entrepreneur.
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Eli Smit
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