Business Lessons with Sir Ian Taylor... My Message to CEOs and Business Leaders, Why NZ Isn't Losing It's Mojo & More!

Welcome to the first episode of Business in Between our podcast that puts a business lens on the best chats from Between Two Beers. This podcast evolved from two trains of thought.The first is that we’ve recorded 164 episodes of the Between Two Beers podcast across five years, and inside that back catalogue is a forgotten treasure chest of business wisdom.We have Dion Nash talking about Triumph and Disaster, Marc Ellis on Charlies Juice, Tim Brown on Allbirds, Lucy Blakiston on Shit You Should Care About, Brodie Kane on Brodie Kane Media, Izzy Whitley on Aotearoa Labour Hire, Duane Dalton on Pita Pit, Luke Kemeys on Keep the Change, Steve Dunstan on Huffer…. The list goes on and on and there's so much goodness there we're going to bring back into the light.We're going to repurpose the best business lessons from all the epic old episodes you may have missed, and trim off the fat. We’re all business here!The second thought is that soon we’ll start generating original content for this channel, which will trace our journey of building a business.In the last 12 months Seamus and I have left our jobs, built a team, taken huge financial risks, learned the numbers, become salesmen, hired a mindset coach, figured out a marketing strategy, and turned a friendship into a business partnership. We are now running three businesses concurrently and are really excited to lift the lid on it all – with some expert guests.And it's hard to think of a better guest in NZ to launch the podcast with than Sir Ian Taylor.Sir Ian is one of NZ’s top business leaders. His team at ARL has revolutionized how we watch sport, he’s earned a knighthood for his services to broadcasting and business. In this episode we talk about the day he went to work to shut down his company, and why he didn’t, the origin story of creating graphics for sport, how he secured contracts all over the world, how be builds culture, why his company only made their first profit in 2019, the importance of a good team and much more. Sir Ian is one of NZ’s great characters, with so much wisdom to share and love to spread. This was a chat we felt really privileged to be a part of with one of NZ’s greatest innovators.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.