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Speaker 2: When you're going up against one of the most capitalized

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Speaker 2: companies in the world, you need to probably work smarter,

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Speaker 3: Would put two grand in the business had no money.

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Speaker 3: I've had a pretty sharking website and personal lag probably

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Speaker 3: and chattered with an understatement.

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Speaker 2: When somebody like your friends with your family tell you

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Speaker 2: that you probably should give this thing up that actually

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Speaker 2: puts a fire in your belly, that it's pretty hard

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Speaker 2: to describe Currakoto.

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Speaker 4: I'm Garth Bray. This is More than Money makes special

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Speaker 4: mini series brought to you by Cheers Eas to help

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Speaker 4: kickstart twenty twenty five. We're speaking with some Kiwis who've

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Speaker 4: been through the mill and understand a few things about

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Speaker 4: how to make wealth work for them. And today we're

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Speaker 4: joined by a couple of young Kiwi entrepreneurs who run

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Speaker 4: a successful nationwide takeaway delivery business that started nearly ten

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Speaker 4: years ago in a garage in Mount vic and Wellington.

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Speaker 4: Nick and Tim from deliver Easy, but first some important

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Speaker 4: information you always need to consider.

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Speaker 5: The experience is shared in this episode.

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Speaker 6: Are not advice or a recommendation or opinion by guests

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Speaker 6: to invest or act in the manner they have.

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Speaker 6: Is not an endorsement by Sharesy's of the views of

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Speaker 6: the presenters or guests. They're not financial experts and their

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Speaker 4: Let's explain a little bit for people what Deliver Easy is,

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Speaker 4: maybe because most of the time people just are ordering food,

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Speaker 4: they're looking at an app and they're just going that whatever,

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Speaker 4: what is it that you guys do that's different? And

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Speaker 4: how did you get started?

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Speaker 2: Twenty fifteen was sort of where it all began. There

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Speaker 2: were sort of a few things that happened concurrently back

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Speaker 2: then that sort of helped the idea come to life.

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Speaker 2: Our flatmate Blair and I is flat mate at the time,

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Speaker 2: Bless his Soul, would would order takeaways every single Sunday

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Speaker 2: morning without fail, and she would only ever order this

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Speaker 2: one pizza place. And we just somehow were confused by

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Speaker 2: this thing. How do you how do you do this

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Speaker 2: every single Sunday? And she sort of replied, well, if

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Speaker 2: there was something better I could get delivered, then then

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Speaker 5: And we thought that was a pretty fair comic.

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Speaker 2: At the same time, a friend of Blair and Eyes

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Speaker 2: and hopefully not having to work for the man.

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Speaker 5: For the rest of our lives.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, he naturally brought up that this on demand

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Speaker 5: The UK, and that also got us thinking.

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Speaker 2: And so there's these multiple things happening at the same time,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, I guess I was lucky enough to be

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Speaker 2: at power Shop, as I mentioned. And again, over a

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Speaker 2: few beers we've got talking about this idea and the

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Speaker 2: fact that this industry didn't exist in New Zealand at

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Speaker 5: Me that he could build this thing with his eyes closed.

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Speaker 5: But it looks like I said, it was nice close.

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Speaker 5: I loved that all I did a great job.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, sort of, yeah, Tim Blair and myself got

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Speaker 4: I'm sensing a theme here there.

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Speaker 5: There's a little bit of a theme there.

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Speaker 2: I came in trying not to talk too much about

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Speaker 2: flow in and now our case, it's definitely paid off.

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Speaker 4: So for nearly ten years, you guys have been going

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Speaker 4: up against some pretty stiff competition. I would have thought

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Speaker 3: Yes, definitely, Different bike regions started on until we had

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Speaker 2: I think a key factor was that no one was

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Speaker 5: Sweat, tears and all of that.

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Speaker 4: So it's the execution as much as having a great idea.

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Speaker 5: Probably more. Yeah, and pimbing definitely as well. I think

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Speaker 5: of the big player you mentioned before was already here.

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Speaker 5: I don't think we probably would have had the balls

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned wealth before and maybe not having the

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Speaker 4: get each of you to tell me what does wealth

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Speaker 5: I think freedom and ability to be happy and life

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Speaker 2: And if you can work hard to get yourself in

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Speaker 5: I think that's probably a good place to start. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: of it's I don't think it's a cash thing.

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Speaker 4: Because you mentioned before you both were working for another company,

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Speaker 4: good company, you said. But it's that ability to make

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Speaker 5: I think so. Yeah, having the.

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Speaker 2: Having a will and a purpose I think is really

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Speaker 2: if you can make a little bit of money along

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Speaker 5: But that's never been the goal for us.

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Speaker 2: It's probably to make something of ourselves and not have

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Speaker 2: to work for the man forever.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there's a beautiful.

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Speaker 5: It's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 4: If I'm trying to think about great financial decisions, some

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Speaker 4: people can just hit on that straight away and go, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it too soon to tell whether setting this company up

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Speaker 3: I think in retrospect, it probably was like at the time,

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Speaker 3: it's a stupid decision. But I think putting itself on

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Speaker 3: actually and the Lauren became a really good decision because

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Speaker 3: if we had it made such a lousy financial decision,

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Speaker 3: we wouldn't be so driven to make it come good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think age and stage and all of that

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Speaker 2: we kind of had no alternative. We had to make

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Speaker 2: it was pretty touch and go financially there. And that's

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Speaker 2: not to say we've we've made it now, but the

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Speaker 2: business is obviously looking at a much better position now,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it was probably a pretty good

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think a financial plane would have endorsed

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Speaker 5: Hindsight is the beautiful thing you mentioned.

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Speaker 4: It's in a better position. Now. What do you mean by.

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Speaker 2: That, I mean early days, probably for the first three

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Speaker 2: Bootstrap this thing is probably a massive understatement. We started

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Speaker 2: the three broken scooters, Yeah, three broken scooters and three

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Speaker 2: for the most part, a lot of businesses these days,

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Speaker 3: Were probably a little bit more old school in that fact.

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Speaker 3: I think it made us be really focus and what

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Speaker 3: got no reasonce it's going to be pretty clear up

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Speaker 3: when you put it. But over time, I think it

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Speaker 3: that because you've kept the control and you've kept the

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Speaker 3: something that if we're diluted massively early, for example, trying

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Speaker 4: And what's something I think I read some were something

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Speaker 4: like six million meals delivered? Is it about right?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we just got ten million last month.

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Speaker 4: Ten million.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, went way off.

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Speaker 3: Turn about three million, just over three million a year now. Yes,

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Speaker 3: it's grown quite a bit from a garage in the

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Speaker 2: You would say that probably the first first ten orders

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Speaker 2: were probably the most exciting though oh really what the

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Speaker 4: Can you still remember any of them?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a bit of a blur.

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Speaker 2: But we we were doing deliveries, so we would build

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Speaker 2: so wooden pellets. Yeah, we would go down to liquor

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Speaker 2: of the pellets. And this is an example of the

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Speaker 2: extreme boots.

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Speaker 5: Trapping I was talking about.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, we'd literally build these boxes that were far

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Speaker 2: too heavy and probably not the safest things to have

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Speaker 2: on the back of a scooter, but they seem to work.

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Speaker 2: I held together by a few nails and a few

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Speaker 5: So I think we've always.

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Speaker 2: Sort of had that mancher that this business is the

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Speaker 5: And a few beers along the way.

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Speaker 4: Outstanding, that sounds like you've encapsulated some of the hard times.

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Speaker 4: I mean, what was there a really really tough moment

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Speaker 4: there where you thought we can't carry on with this

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was pretty I think it was pretty scary

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Speaker 2: Think that's as a drive that comes from I think

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Speaker 5: Maybe rippling anxiety is a great motivator.

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Speaker 4: Well, so actually Uber turning up was possibly one of

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say the best mat I'd love they bug

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Speaker 2: And competition breeds, you know, As I said, that kind

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I think with it's negly to have competition,

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Speaker 2: Some ways it forces you to work harder and to

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Speaker 4: You've been on a bit of a journey. Then, how

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Speaker 5: There's a hell of a question. Money is there, whether

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Speaker 2: Right, it's this thing that keeps society moving and countries

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Speaker 5: To have a purpose that's wildly.

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Speaker 2: Different than if you're working for someone someone else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's probably more just realized something like

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Speaker 3: that's not what makes you happy, like you like when

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