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James Sampson

James Sampson

Founder and CEO of FileInvite, a New Zealand-founded SaaS document-collection platform serving banks and lenders, with ~96% of revenue earned offshore.

Sep 8, 2026

speaker_1HOST
2:26
If you had to have a player's player vote, who do you reckon would be up there for player of the year for your side at this point?
2:34
Oh, you put me on the spot there.
2:36
That's really hard.
2:37
Look, we've had quite a few people stand out this year.
2:42
Andy Fields, obviously, has been mentioned quite a bit throughout the year.
2:46
Same with Sophie Sanazaro, Harper Alderson.
2:49
And for me, my two centre-back, my centre-back pairing, which for the second half of the season, Nuhar Suleiman and Charlotte Martin have both been outstanding as well.
speaker_1HOST
4:21
What are you expecting from them this week and this weekend?
16:06
How did that come about?
16:08
Yeah, well, you know, to be honest, I guess quick backstory.
16:14
We launched Global Day One recently.
16:17
and actually pre-launch back it was you know lean startup eric reese rice that back in the day that was in vogue so we had the vaporware landing page pre-register for your interest i think we had about three or four hundred people uh you know sign up through some of the early startup channels And we could see a little bit of signal even in that.
16:43
Some of them were in financial services, but it was pretty broad.
16:48
Incidentally, and probably something for a startup, I think we got one of those signed up post-launch.
16:57
Often your bleeding-edge early adopters aren't necessarily, until they're parting with hard cash, it's not truly validated.

30 MINS LATER

47:20
of going, do we go for growth or do we improve the product?

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