Auckland's Mayor to Founders: "Skip the Valley, Come Here"
Wayne Brown: blunt engineer, Auckland mayor, and the man on a mission to make NZ the South Pacific's startup capital.
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A podcast by Mark Pavlyukovskyy & Hendrik Remigereau from NZVC on startups and the future of Australasia.
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