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Welcome to TechMates, the podcast where we spotlight the trailblazing founders and game-changing startups transforming Australasia.Hosted by Mark Pavlyukovskyy, a Silicon Valley success story, and Hendrik Remigereau, a former leader in Europe’s largest AI ecosystem turned…
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The Shopify for Rentals Is Here (opens the original)
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He built a viral game at 14. Now he’s creating rental millionaires and taking on U-Haul with Lockii. In this episode of TechMates, Hendrik and Mark sit down with Bodhi Hawken, founder and CEO of Lockii — and the conversation starts exactly where you'd expect: a banned school game, two terabytes of copies, and a school IT guy hitting delete while Bodhi watched. From there, Bodhi traces the path from teaching himself Unity at 14, to building a paddleboard vending machine for his uncle at 17, to co
Is the West Is Losing the Education War? (opens the original)
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Jamie Beaton couldn't legally sit on his own board at 17, but built Crimson into a global education empire — and is now taking on Big Law with an AI visa startup, teaching a unicorn-building course at Auckland University, and quietly betting on the next generation of founders. In this episode of TechMates, Hendrik and Mark sit down with Jamie Beaton, founder and CEO of Crimson Education, for a second time — and this time the conversation goes deeper. Since they last spoke, Jamie launched an AI-n
Can a Rebrand Really Double Your Sales? (opens the original)
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How the right brand decision can double your revenue overnight, and how skipping it can quietly kill a good product.In this special compilation episode of TechMates, Hendrik and Mark bring together three conversations with one common thread: brand as a real growth lever, not a nice-to-have. No fluffy logo talk — just the mechanics of how brand decisions drive revenue, unlock new markets, and build the kind of cult following that clears shelves overnight. First up is Simon Pound, one of New Zeala
Auckland's Mayor to Founders: "Skip the Valley, Come Here" (opens the original)
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Wayne Brown: blunt engineer, Auckland mayor, and the man on a mission to make NZ the South Pacific's startup capital. In this episode of TechMates, Hendrik and Mark sit down with Wayne Brown, Mayor of Auckland — and he's not your typical politician. A trained engineer who put half a million of his own money into a mayoral campaign, won by a landslide, and then won again even bigger, Brown has spent four years doing something almost unheard of in politics: actually fixing things. From stepping in
In 5 Years, Every Kid Will Have an AI Teacher (opens the original)
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Four founders, one uncomfortable question: what happens to learning — in school, university, and work — once AI can teach better than most humans? This episode of TechMates brings together four conversations around a single theme: technology is quietly rewriting what it means to learn, at every stage of life. It opens with Arash Tayebi of Kara Technologies, whose personal hearing loss led him to build AI avatars that translate content into sign language in real time — closing an accessibility ga
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