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Chris Keall: NZ Herald Technology Editor on Deloitte Top 200 Company of the year winner Rocket Lab · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from Newstalk z'd be follow
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  Speaker 2: Studio is New Zealand Hero Technology editor Chris Keel. Always
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  Speaker 2: good to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Chris and the great New Zealander. Sir Peter Beck's Rocket
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  Speaker 3: Lab has been crowned the winner of the Deloitte Top
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  Speaker 3: two hundred Company of the Year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Deloitte judges talked about the huge gains rocket
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  Speaker 4: Lab said this year record number of launchers, second earning
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  Speaker 4: two Elon Musk's SpaceX. But they also have said at
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  Speaker 4: home that well, I said, it's particularly special in that
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  Speaker 4: rocket Lab has achieved success in the space industry, one
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  Speaker 4: of the most competitive industries and hardest in the world,
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  Speaker 4: and also that its success has been hugely beneficial for
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  Speaker 4: New Zealand long term.
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  Speaker 3: And what is Sir Peterbecks advice to other New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: businesses trying to get to the levels he's reached, if
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  Speaker 3: that's possible.
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  Speaker 4: One of his things was think lowball. From day one
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  Speaker 4: when he head first started Rocket lad Ben a Fisher
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  Speaker 4: Michael Apprentice and he's just experimenting with his first rockets.
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  Speaker 4: One of the first things he did was go to
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  Speaker 4: the US and around two thousand and four, I think
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  Speaker 4: it was a knock on the door at NASA and
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  Speaker 4: Darker and so forth. And he wasn't immediately successful, but
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  Speaker 4: he did eventually get early investment from the US, and
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  Speaker 4: he's saying, you know, I think beyond borders straight away.
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  Speaker 2: He had tenacity, that man. And so what is next
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  Speaker 2: for Rocket lad Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I often busy man. He often sort of videos in
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  Speaker 4: a pre recorded message for the awards show and watch shows,
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  Speaker 4: but last night actually turned up in person and as
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  Speaker 4: he arrived he saw Miles Hurell, the Fonterra ceo, and
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  Speaker 4: he thought, Fonterra has had a fantastic year. They will
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  Speaker 4: almost suddenly win. So I'll kick back and have a
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  Speaker 4: couple of wines. But lo and behold Rocket Lab one.
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  Speaker 4: So he was bored on stage and he gave a
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  Speaker 4: recentably animated couple of minutes if you go to the
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  Speaker 4: Herald Business Session section as a clip at the top
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  Speaker 4: of the story, which is worth watching. And he mentioned
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  Speaker 4: that Rocket Labs to spacecraft on the way to Mars.
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  Speaker 4: I now just zip pass Moon. There are one and
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  Speaker 4: a half a million kilometers away and He also mentioned
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  Speaker 4: that once they arrive in Mars, I think late twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty seven, I'll make up twenty percent of every object
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  Speaker 4: orbiting Mars. So wow, great effort for a New Zealand
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  Speaker 4: founder company.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to say a terrible cliche here,
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  Speaker 3: but the whole shoot for the Stars idea to actually
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  Speaker 3: be a New Zealander and to even dream of doing
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  Speaker 3: something like that, let alone be heading off to Mars
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  Speaker 3: with your work, that's just so incredible. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what that man has done, you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: can't be put into words. Is tenacity and pushing through
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  Speaker 2: and not listening to the naysayers. You know, I vividly
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  Speaker 2: remember an interview on TV. I'll say his names. It
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  Speaker 2: was Paul Henry and when he said what he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do, Paul Henry laughed in his face. Then he
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  Speaker 2: came back a couple of years later and Paul Henry
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  Speaker 2: apologized and said I was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: But how good?
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  Speaker 3: But I remember when we first started hearing that people,
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  Speaker 3: you know that there was people that were going to
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  Speaker 3: try and run a space PROGRAMMUT in New Zealand. I thought,
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  Speaker 3: as this a scam. You know, this doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 3: a real thing.
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  Speaker 4: I have to say. When he launched his very first
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  Speaker 4: rocket from Mercury Island owned by Sir Michael Fay and
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  Speaker 4: he lost local fisherman to search for it paid, I
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  Speaker 4: did write a story called Cora Amanda. We have a
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  Speaker 4: problem taking them back. But of course look at them
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  Speaker 4: now yahing them?
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  Speaker 2: How good? Chris always nice to see you, mate. You
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  Speaker 2: have a nice weekend. We'll get you make your name.
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  Speaker 2: That is Chris Keel from the New Zealand Hero Technology team.
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  Speaker 1: He's the editor for more from News Talks'd be listen
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