Jarra Borman: Zeald & Outrun Global

Jarrod Borman, great to have you on the New Zealand Business Podcast.

How are you? I'm good, thank you.

Pleasure to be here.

Thanks, Paul.

Yeah, great to have you here.

We met way, way back.

So it's always a privilege to have friends in the studio.

But I love to start When it comes to these stories, sort of right at the beginning.

So tell us a little bit about where you were born and where you

grew up.

First of all, nice to see you again after all these years.

So I'm actually from Tauranga.

I spent most of my formative years growing up around there.

And I just had a passion for technology and science growing up.

I just love the problem solving aspect of it.

I think from a very early age, I think maybe about 10 or 11, I decided I was going to be a forensic scientist at that stage.

No one even knew what that was.

There was no CSI glamorizing it.

I just love the idea that you could use science and technology to kind of unpack a problem.

And so I was adamant that that's what I was going to do for a career.

And in a strange turn of fate, just before I went to university to do like chemistry, physics, biology, calculus, anthropology, all of these sort of things, my mum came to me and said, you need a summer job.

And I said, okay.

So I heard an ad on the radio, they're taking auditions at Coastline FM in Taranga, and you should go and audition.

I said, I'm going to be a forensic scientist.

Why do I want to be on the radio? And she said, you talk enough as it is anyway, you might as well get paid for it.