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On this episode of WFLS, we talk with Charlie Meaden about AI, investing and his company's ambition is to create a futuristic Berkshire Hathaway built on Automation, AI, and optimising productivity.
Charlie is a technologist and investor who runs a systematic investment strategy and founder of Gembot.ai. Gembot is 'Your AI Investing Assistant & Modern Wealth Platform.'
After successfully exiting his previous startup Uproar, Charlie got really fascinated by investing and learned everything he could about it and thus Gembot was born. A Platform that enables individual investors to execute investment strategies by continually improving their financial literacy through a collaborative community and advanced trading tools. Democratising information and advanced tools for individual self-directed investors allowing them to seamlessly execute simple, intermediate, or advanced investment strategies.
Our host Troy Hammond heard about what Charlie and his team were doing via a mutual American friend and after reading his ⁠Memo⁠ 'How To Fight Inflation In A Deflationary World' we knew we had to get him on the pod. It is a great read, impressively it was written in 2021 and largely spelled out what is happening now.
We discuss this and many more topics around AI, ChatGPT, Investing, and lots more. If you are keen to watch Navals YouTube series “How to get rich” you can find it here 👉🏻 https://youtu.be/1-TZqOsVCNM
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Welcome back. It is season ✌🏻 and we are going bigger and better.

Our first episode of the season is with Brooke Roberts.
Brooke is the co-founder, director and 3EO (co-CEO) of Sharesies and mother of two.
Sharesies is an empowering money app with over half a million investors who’ve collectively invested over $2 billion.
At Sharesies, their vision is to give someone with $5 and $5m the money investment opportunities.
Brooke is passionate about creating equal opportunities and business being a force for good—she puts a lot of focus on making sure Sharesies has a positive impact on people, customers, communities, and the environment.
Brooke was awarded the 2022 NZ Hi-Tech Inspiring Individual and we can see why after this conversation.
We talked about the Sharesies story from a conversation between 6 friends and how they designed the values and DNA of the company that stands today over a soda at Egmont street eatery in Wellington.
Brooke is open, insightful and just plain impressive and so we hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did. You can check out what a convertible note below. https://kindrik.co.nz/guides/convertible-notes-vs-equity-a-beginners-guide/
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This podcast has made us all very happy by doing something that brings us and others joy in the world.



With season one wrapping, let's go back and look at our final question and the answers to:



"What makes you happy?"



Thank you to our major sponsor for season one in Talent Army

Thank you to Jono, Dom and Troy for putting this together and Jen for her lovely voice over skills.

In the final episode of the WFLS podcast, we chat with Mike Riversdale & Raj Khushal who were one of the reasons this podcast was created.

Our host Troy Hammond was a big fan of the Access Granted podcast that Mike & Raj founded and ran for many years.

It was a gritty podcast started in Wellington to celebrate the tech startup community.

Mike and Raj usually recorded at Goldings Free dive bar in Wellington and got some great guests on to come in and tell their stories and help the community.

We at the WFLS know how hard it is to create a podcast and so we wanted to pay homage to these legends that went before us and so we decided to finish with the Access Granted famous question: "What makes you happy now?"

Troy thought it only fitting to finish the season by having a fun podcast with Mike and Raj and so they all got together and reminisced about the old show that changed so many people's lives and probably drank too much going from all the laughing we had to edit out of this show.

Thank you Mike and Raj for doing what you did to help the industry and we appreciate your show and you both.



Season one of the WFLS podcast is now concluded and we are taking the show nationally now and so please get in touch if you are wanting to be a guest.

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Thank you to everyone involved and everyone who has watched and or listened to any of the pods.

We appreciate you all.

In this episode of the WFLS podcast, we chat with Matthew Hayter who is the CEO & Founder at Projectworks.



We talk about Matt's journey from working in a consulting company to spinning off a startup from that company that invested in them.

When the company got acquired, so did Projectworks and this was before they had even got the product off the ground.

Matt and his team found themselves pitching the new owners to keep his product alive.

They are very much alive and going from strength to strength now.



Mat is Co-Founder and CEO of Projectworks, the B2B SaaS platform that’s improving the lives of professional services firms across the globe.

He’s a proud dad, who loves tech, cars, retro gaming, and spending his spare time on DIY projects.

Educated at Victoria University in Wellington, Matt started his career in software consulting before taking up the entrepreneur life.

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In this episode, we speak with Carlos Chambers.



Troy and Carlos chat about his journey from being a lawyer, to a climate activist to now a successful founder of two saas companies.

They discuss the highs and lows of this journey and a brief psychadelic-infused trip to Burning Man that help put Carlos on a better path.

Carlos is on a mission to make a dent in the world. He is a climate fintech founder building CarbonInvoice™.

A company where services firms can do the right thing and grow their business.

Carlos is also the CEO of Common Ledger which is a platform for open data for SMEs.

Previously he was a commercial lawyer at Russell McVeagh, climate organiser Generation Zero and he is always seeking higher knowledge.


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