#18, Joel Lieser, "The Netflix recommendation engine for Weed"

In this episode, Troy Hammond speaks with Joel Lieser.  Joel Lieser is the CTO of Trove Money, a child company of Forsyth Barr.   His career has spanned seven states and three countries, where he has held positions from global banks to Silicon Valley technology juggernauts like Netflix, and companies like Nike along with multiple startups along the way.   His passions lie in technology innovation and building teams. In this episode, Joel chats about culture, engineering, the differences between US and NZ, and how he thinks we can help get more people into startups. Joel hones in on his career and how our lives are a culmination of the choices we make against our adjacent possibles It is a really interesting episode and we hope you enjoy watching and or listening as much as we did.  Please join us and subscribe to help us. We want to help New Zealand to support its own when it comes to innovation.   To quote Joel: "Don't let the Tall Poppy Syndrome sidetrack us from supporting Kiwis to change the world."