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Predicting the future: inside PredictHQ, New Zealand's next potential billion-dollar-business

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Predicting the future: inside PredictHQ, New Zealand's next potential billion-dollar-business

By Elly Strang

At the 2019 Hi-Tech Awards held earlier this year, amongst the tech heavyweights that were crowned victorious like Rocket Lab and PushPay, one name was read out time and time again: PredictHQ. The company took out the software category, services category and emerging company category – the most a business has ever pocketed in the history of the awards – with judges singing its praises, saying it had the potential to be a billion-dollar company. Its founder, Campbell Brown, has based himself in San Francisco, hungrily pursuing venture capital and expansion opportunities more ambitious than New Zealand’s shores could offer him. Could this data analytics company that helps companies understand future demand be the next New Zealand unicorn? Elly Strang talks to Brown about scaling, ambition and why building a great business isn’t rocket science.

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