“Outside my CFO's office was an army of financial analysts… why doesn't somebody automate this? This is 1990.”

Guy Haddleton · The SME Stream · 'Let's grow the damn pie!' - Billionaire Guy Haddleton says NZ needs to think bigger

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Identified a manual spreadsheet analysis process at Television Direct and decided to automate it in 1990

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