1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Now local Kiwi company. Event Finder is the latest company 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: to be snapped up by the offshore guys, this time 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: by the Aussie giant tick a Tech. Event Finder lets 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,320 Speaker 1: the event organize as promotion cell tickets all in one place. 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: Very cool to use. James McGlynn as the co founder 6 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: of event Finder. Hey James, Hi, congrats, how are you 7 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: feeling really good? 8 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 2: Really excited The team here at event Finder overjoyed. It's 9 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: vindication really that we've built a world class platform from 10 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: down here in New Zealand and TG have been very 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 2: interested in helping us take that to the world. 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: So how big is this? Is this a deal so 13 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: big you'll never have to work in the whole of 14 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: the rest of your life. 15 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 2: We're not disclosing any of the deal terms, but we can't. 16 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: Even tell us if you never have to if you 17 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: can buy any beach house you want, buy a chopper 18 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: and never have to work again. 19 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 2: I'm not even thinking about beach outhers than choppers. We're 20 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: thinking about how we go into the rest of the world, 21 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 2: and starting with Australia, the UK, the US, Singapore is 22 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: a huge amount of potential and something that we've been 23 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: working on here and I've been working on personally for 24 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 2: twenty years, so you know it couldn't come fast enough. 25 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: We're really excited about it. 26 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: So are you stul involved with it? 27 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 3: Are you? 28 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,919 Speaker 2: I'm absolutely involved. So I remain Managing director of event Finder. 29 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 2: The leadership team that I have here in New Zealand 30 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 2: will remain. All of our team remain. It's business as 31 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: usual for a vent Finder and for our clients. Nothing 32 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,479 Speaker 2: changes about our approach, our product, our service, pricing terms, 33 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 2: any of those things. What we get to do now 34 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 2: is go into the world stage and show them what 35 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: we've got. 36 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: How big do you reckon you can get? 37 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 2: I think there's global opportunity for this, I honestly do. 38 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 2: I don't believe there's anything anywhere in the world that 39 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 2: does what we do with this sort of level of 40 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 2: capability that the event Finder team have built and TG 41 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 2: you have looked around globally and have come down and 42 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 2: seen us and said, okay, we want to help you 43 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 2: take this and really make it into something huge. 44 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 1: We've got quite a few sales at the moment New 45 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: Zealand businesses to offshore interests. Why do you think that is? 46 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: Is there a genuine interest in us for some reason, I. 47 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 2: Think this is the path. I think we're a small 48 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 2: country down here in New Zealand, five million people and 49 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 2: if you can get to the point where you're ready 50 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: to take that product offshore into much bigger markets, this 51 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: is really the way that you do it. 52 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, brilliant stuff. Hey, thank you very much, James. James McGlenn. 53 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: Event find a co founder. 54 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 3: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen live to 55 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 3: news talks. 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