The Morgo Podcast

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Oct 2026

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The Morgo podcasts are 20-minute interviews with people building tech companies from New Zealand and Australia into the world. Look for The MORGO Podcast on your favourite podcast app and subscribe.

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October 19, 2026Episode 17119 min

Nicole Retter, PAM

Nicole started PAM after drowning in the sea of all the things she as a mother had to do. PAM, the PA for busy families, takes the chaos and makes sense of it. You build a village of support by looping in other family members and friends. Co-founder, Diogo Freire, built the tech and now runs the dev team while Nicole is the relentless marketer. Helped by a great board, they're now focused on selling into the corporate market. What a great employee benefit! www.pamfamilymanager.com

September 28, 2026Episode 17023 min

Andrew Pegler, Blackcurrent

Blackcurrent 's energy trading platform lets users manage their electricity use and sell ing electricity back into the grid using smart controls to shift and optimise energy use. In New Zealand it has a partnership with Farmlands for the rural sector. It is now planning to grow into Australia and Asia through partner s . Pegs talks about the value of having been part of a successful startup before and about the challenges of leading as the team grows . www.blackcurrent.io

September 7, 2026Episode 16919 min

Trevor Stuthridge, Cetogenix

Cetogenix uses hydrothermal oxidation to transform organic waste into renewable natural gas, green chemicals & biomaterials. Trevor talks about the large opportunity, especially in Europe where Anglian Water is leading a $23 M collaborative project to build a demonstration scale plant. The technology and team came out of Scion Research. Trevor is loving the move from a large organisation to a small, focused team & says he should have done this 20 years earlier. www.cetogenix.co.nz

August 19, 2026Episode 16718 min

Ben Calvert, Flicket

Ben Calvert is CEO of Flicket, an event commerce platform helping sports teams, festivals and major events sell more tickets, own their customer data and build stronger fan relationships. Ben and his c o-Founders started Flicket in New Zealand and have since expanded the business across Australia, the US and the UK. Ben shares the realities of scaling internationally, the challenges along the way and what he's learned about building and hiring great teams in new markets. www.flicket.io

July 22, 2026Episode 16623 min

Luke Campbell, VXT

VXT automates AI notes from calls and meetings for lawyers. When Luke & co-founder Lucy Turner learned how much time lawyers spent recording time and notes from calls, they set out to solve the problem by building a phone system that integrates with legal software. Luke talks about getting customers on board, expanding offshore, the skills he brings to the role and the need to choose a co-founder carefully. VXT now has ARR of $10M and is growing at 10% per month. www.vxt.co.nz

June 29, 2026Episode 16519 min

Ojas Mahapatra, Mars Bioimaging

Mars Bioimaging has developed a mobile colour CT for high quality scanning of hands and wrists. It has FDA approval in the US and is selling to the orthopaedic & emergency markets in the US & NZ. Ojas became CEO to focus on the commercialisation of the product and lead the push into the market. Key lessons: f ind your customer (a large market) and only then start throwing money at it. You'll fail a lot more than you win – you need to push through. www.marsbioimaging.com

June 8, 2026Episode 16421 min

Yoram Benit, Tait Communications

Tait Communications is a provider of critical communications for public safety , emergency services utilities & enterprises . Yoram became CEO in 2021 and has grown the company from 450 people to over 1300. Plans include a new state of the art manufacturing facility & a Centre of Excellence with over 10 labs. Yoram says the key to the growth is having a strong business case for every R&D project or acquisition and making sure you have the right people. www. taitcommunications.com

May 11, 2026Episode 16334 min

Ratu Mataira, OpenStar Technologies

OpenStar is nuclear fusio n company . In this podcast Ratu talks about the pathway of building the business : the science, the people, the funding. The core technology is a levitated dipole containing a plasma at temperatures of millions of degrees , which OpenStar demonstrated recently . Now OpenStar plans larger machines and temperatures of millions of degrees to make medical isotopes and electric ity . This requires a team of very smart and very driven people . www.o p enstar.tech

April 13, 2026Episode 16222 min

Sigurd Magnusson, Silverstripe

Silverstripe partners with governments and enterprises to create the digital infrastructure that underpins everyday life in Aotearoa and beyond. Sigurd shares its journey from small startup to a mature company of 70 people whose open-source CMS powers over 200 NZ government websites. Their work is aiding digital transformation internationally too, as in South Africa where they delivered a single digital front door to government services in just 10 weeks. www.silverstripe.com

March 23, 2026Episode 16118 min

Quentin Griffiths, Lutra

Lutra 's purpose is to protect the environment and the people within in through excellence in management of water and wastewater. I ts team are engineers, modelers, data management specialists, content producers, and project managers and its clients are in N ew Z ealand , Australia and other countries . Quentin talks about coming into the CEO role – learning to shift quickly across different areas and the importance of purpose and focus. www.lutra.com