Brooke Roberts
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422 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2021
last heard 17 Jun
Brooke Roberts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We've got a million users, but it's been like nine and a bit years, you know, and talking about growth, you've made a really big call in the last year or so around how you grow Yume.
So you have bootstrapped this yourself, you know, for about nine years of creating Yume and then you decided to take on some capital.
Can you tell us a bit about what made you decide to bring on an investor, how that's going for you and
Any lessons learned?
It really is like making sure you get those people that are on board who are just so aligned with where you're going and really want to back you.
So what I know about you is when you've got an idea, you're relentlessly focused on making it come to life.
But at a standard that is like second to none, you think deeply through all the details of anything that you create, the experience from another person's point of view.
You've got an incredible design mind along with your business mind.
And you're very civically driven, like if that is a word.
But you think deeply about Te Whanganui-O-Tara, Wellington.
You were born and raised here.
You have quite a deep affinity.
Obviously came back here after university and continued to grow Yume here along with the family.
Why do you care so much about Wellington, I guess?
And what do you want to see Wellington be?
You've thought so deeply about what Wellington needs and how important creativity is in Wellington.
And it's always been the essence of what makes this city really special on a global stage, let alone here in Aotearoa.
How can we re-own that creative technology capital that we are?
Yeah, I remember when I was deciding what university to go to and I came here to Wellington, I remember on Marion Street, Creative HQ used to be there.
And it literally was creators and makers, they were sewing machines in there.
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