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James McGlinn: Eventfinda co-founder on the company being acquired by Ticketek Entertainment Group · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now local Kiwi company. Event Finder is the latest company
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  Speaker 2: to be snapped up by the offshore guys, this time
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  Speaker 2: by the Aussie giant tick a Tech. Event Finder lets
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  Speaker 2: the event organize as promotion and cell tickets all in
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  Speaker 2: one place. Very cool to use. James McGlynn as the
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  Speaker 2: co founder of event Finder. Hey James, Hi, congrats, how
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  Speaker 2: are you feeling really good?
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  Speaker 3: Really excited? The team here at event Finder overjoyed. It's
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  Speaker 3: vindication really that we've built a world class platform from
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  Speaker 3: down here in New Zealand and TG have been have
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  Speaker 3: been very interested in helping us take that to the world.
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  Speaker 2: So how big is this? Is this a deal so
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  Speaker 2: big you'll never have to work in the whole of
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  Speaker 2: the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 3: We're not disclosing any of the deal terms, but we.
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  Speaker 2: Can't even tell us if you never have to if
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  Speaker 2: you can buy any beach house, do you want buy
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  Speaker 2: a chopper and never have to work again.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not even thinking about beach outer than choppers. We're
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  Speaker 3: thinking about how we go into the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: world and starting with Australia, the UK, the US, Singapore.
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  Speaker 3: There's a huge amount of potential and you know, something
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  Speaker 3: that we've been working on here and I've been working
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  Speaker 3: on personally for twenty years, so you know, it couldn't
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  Speaker 3: come fast enough. We're really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: So are you sful involved with it?
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  Speaker 1: Are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm absolutely involved. So I remain Managing director of event Finder.
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  Speaker 3: The leadership team that I have here in New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: will remain. All of our team remain. It's business as
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  Speaker 3: usual for a vent Finder and for our clients. You know,
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  Speaker 3: nothing changes about our approach, our product, our service, pricing terms,
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  Speaker 3: any of those things. What we get to do now
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  Speaker 3: is go into the world stage and show them what
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  Speaker 3: we've got.
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  Speaker 2: How big do you reckon you can get?
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  Speaker 3: I think the global opportunity for this, I honestly do.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe there's anything anywhere in the world that
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  Speaker 3: does what we do with this sort of level of
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  Speaker 3: capability that the event Finder team have built, and TG
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  Speaker 3: you have looked around globally and have come down and
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  Speaker 3: seen us and said, okay, we want to help you
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  Speaker 3: take this and really make it into something huge.
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  Speaker 2: We've got quite a few sales at the moment of
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand businesses to offshore interests. Why do you think
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  Speaker 2: that is? Is there a genuine interest in us for
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  Speaker 2: some reason?
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  Speaker 3: I think this is the path. I think we're a
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  Speaker 3: small country down here in New Zealand, five million people
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  Speaker 3: and if you can get to the point where you're
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  Speaker 3: ready to take that product offshore into much bigger markets,
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  Speaker 3: this is really the way that you do it.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant stuff. Hey, thank you very much, James. James McGlenn
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  Speaker 2: event find a co founder.
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