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Tony Falkenstein

New Zealand entrepreneur and author

Jun 5, 2026

13:54
[laughs]
13:54
Yeah.
13:55
So anyway, so I was, we were living in London at the time, and the principal of Onehunga High School, which is a school I went to, he was over in London on a Wolfson Scholarship.
14:05
And so he came and lived in our flat for a couple of days, and we went down to the local restaurant and drank a bottle of wine and, and, and I said to him, "Chris, I think we should do something.
14:14
Why don't we start a business school at Onehunga?" And, and he, "Oh, yeah.
14:19
You'll bring a proposal to me when you get, go to the board." And so the next year when we were back, I did get a, give a proposal to him, which was really that to me the business education is the key to economic prosperity.
14:33
And people who are in areas where they're not, they don't learn about business, their, you know, their parents are, uh, tradesmen or, or whatever, and so they don't talk about business around the, around the dining table, which is probably something like 70% of people, they're not getting the same opportunity.

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Keen to hear your, your thoughts on where AI fits in.

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