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Glazier mafia
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in TechBiz, Wellington at 9:03 am on Thursday, 10 July 2008

The latest Start Up Magazine this month seems to feature everyone I know. You can’t walk out of the building without running into a tech entrepreneur.

Peter Griffin did a great article of Silicon Welly. Laughed at the Glazier Mafia bit, but it is amazing how many businesses you can trace from our humble beginnings in Wang House.

I’ve been meaning to catalog them for while. Can anyone remember any more names of businesses that started from people at Glazier?So far I’ve got Utlilyx, Viatx, Context Connect, AfterMail, Intergen, Xero, ActionThis, Navitas, Provoke, Ponoko, Get Staffed, Plan HQ, WhatsInPlay, Mindscape …

Intergen must have over 200 people now. That’s awesome.

Our very own Craig has been learning and positioned himself well on the front cover.  Dock 10 points for not wearing any branding.

It is is fantastic being part of a community that helps each other as much as people do in Wellington.  It’s also fun when the band reforms (it’s like a geek version of the Dunedin music scene) as you get to work with people from 10+ years ago.

Great to see how much people develop and learn, and apply their skills.

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Comments(8)

    Comment by Dave Stringer at 10:33 am on 10 July 2008

    Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

    but Rod, I can trace Glazier back to the 19th floor of the Majestic Building!

    Happy daze - I still use the system you guys wrote for me.




    Comment by Simon at 10:53 am on 10 July 2008

    I worked at iKnow Group (http://www.iknowgroup.com/) for a few years, and I believe they too stem from the Glazier fold.




    Comment by Nic Wise at 9:50 pm on 10 July 2008

    Simon, come on - you worked for AfterMail too!

    I’m at the BBC (Worldwide) at the moment, we have 4 ex-Intergen people, including me, tho there are two more I know of who may be, the recruiter that recruits most of this department is ex-Intergen/Glazier (well, her hubby is)….

    International reach, baby!




    Comment by Blair Wright at 3:34 am on 11 July 2008

    Not only an Ex-GZer, I flatted with Crag and some of the boys in the original GZFlat. We started Personnel-IT in London in 2001 (got annoyed at the recruiters and decided to do it differently) and still have a number of ex-GZers in the fold over here. I just love the fact that I think I started in GZ in 1994\5 and we are all still in contact or working together nearly 15 years later.




    Comment by Simon at 8:47 am on 11 July 2008

    I did indeed work at Aftermail, and I’m now working with Rod again at Xero so that makes three GZ related companies for me! :-)




    Comment by joachim at 8:56 pm on 11 July 2008

    Is this some sort of roll call? well in any case, another ex-wang house-r here.




    Comment by Aaron Stewart at 1:01 pm on 14 July 2008

    If we’re including less-than-stellar ventures - wasn’t PlyingPig put together by a bunch of Glazier folk - perhaps then as Advantage Group? I may have completely muddled that, of course… :)




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