Morgo 2007 - Thoughts on the way home
Morgo invokes the Chatham House Rule, to encourage sharing of otherwise confidential information and ideas. However, some stories have been written with the permission of the presenters. Rod Drury’s written about Atlassian and its co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, Australian Entrepreneur of the Year at age 29, and one of the star turns at the conference. Peter Griffin’s written about Datasquirt’s Australian IPO.
On the plane from Kerikeri on the way home, several thoughts occurred to me:
- The NZ hi-tech industry is in good heart and confident about the future.
- It’s still got a lot to learn about scaling up, but isn’t scared about it. (We heard about how one Indian company has grown from 400 people to 100,000. Now that’s scaling up!)
- People are talking about building businesses, not just products.
- The leaders of most of Wellington’s leading locally-owned hi-tech businesses are on this plane, which could make things tricky if we crash!
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