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Grant Baker: NZ Businessman and Entrepreneur on his decades of success and failures, new book 'No Pit Stops: The Business Of Going All In'

Grant Baker is one of the country’s best success stories.  The Kiwi serial entrepreneur has had his hand in a number of pies but is best known for two companies – 42 Below and Turners.   It’s a career that’s spanned decades, and that’s before you get to his philanthropic efforts and work in co-fo…

Grant Baker: NZ Businessman and Entrepreneur on his decades of success and failures, new book 'No Pit Stops: The Business Of Going All In'

Grant Baker is one of the country’s best success stories.  The Kiwi serial entrepreneur has had his hand in a number of pies but is best known for two companies – 42 Below and Turners.   It’s a career that’s spanned decades, and that’s before you get to his philanthropic efforts and work in co-fo…

Three Imports Up, Honda & Nissan Get Cozy, Service Design Sizzle

Episode #1385: Today we’re talking about Hyundai, Kia, and Honda riding a hybrid-fueled June sales surge, Honda moving closer to a critical Nissan partnership, and dealerships turning service bays into transparent, tech-forward customer showpieces. Hyundai, Kia, and Honda rolled into June with …

Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents

The largest commercial autonomous system on earth isn't a robotaxi fleet — it's Zipline, which has flown 140 million autonomous miles with zero safety incidents. Co-founder Keller Rinaudo Cliffton and Eric Watson, who leads systems engineering and safety, explain why the drone itself is only 15% of…

Grant Baker: Backing Liam Lawson, Ferraris, Cancer & The $138M Exit

Grant Baker is one of those podcast guests where you may or may not know the name. But you most definitely know the brands he has had a hand in building. He’s built companies, sold companies, backed big ideas, helped turn 42 Below from a boutique business into a behemoth, had a hand in turning Turn…

50 Ferraris, 4 exits and a fight for his life | Grant Baker | 2 Commas with Josh Comrie

The Comma Club is now open for founding members — a private community for NZ founders building toward a multimillion-dollar exit: ⁠https://www.joshcomrie.com/club⁠ Grant Baker was sitting in his office on credit watch with BNZ when his phone rang. Eric Watson was calling from Palm Springs to say he…

EP 308 - Producer Eric Watson' - 'The Fountain'

Tell us what you though of the episode 🎙️ On this episode of the Kingdom of Dreams Podcast, I sit down with producer Eric Watson to discuss the making of Darren Aronofsky’s epic science fiction drama The Fountain. Eric shares the remarkable journey of bringing the film to the screen, including its …

Grant Baker: The Business of Going All In - 42 Below, Turners & Liam Lawson

Grant Baker started with nothing - biking to sales meetings and hiding the bike around the corner so clients wouldn't know he couldn't afford a car. He'd go on to build and sell some of New Zealand's best-known companies: 42 Below vodka (sold to Bacardi for $138M), skincare giant Trilogy, and the a…

#687 - The Caloric Demand of Endurance Racing: Interview with Dani De Francesco.

We review the racing from T100 Vancouver, IRONMAN 70.3 Hradec-Kralove, IRONMAN Kalmar and IRONMAN 70.3 Northern California. We discuss how sports watches are misleading us on calorie counting. The caloric demand of endurance races – a recent article from the Tour de Femmes. We chat with sports …

Pet Shop Boys – Please (1986) – Part 4

Episode 208: Pet Shop Boys – Please (1986) – Part 4 After a couple of special episodes, Brian and Sarah return to the task at hand—delving deep into the Pet Shop Boys' debut album, Please. The beginning of this episode finds our hosts with yet another single to discuss: "Suburbia." Chart posi…