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Fail File: Pattrick Smellie, co-founder of BusinessDesk

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By Victoria Carter, Victoria Young , Tamara Poi-Ngawhika, Ella Somers
| BusinessDesk
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Pattrick Smellie, co-founder of BusinessDesk.I was really disappointed when: I realised I didn’t want to be a journalist any more. I fell into a bit of a depressive hole in about 2000. I realised I couldn’t write for Time magazine. I was freelancing, I was the NZ Pacific correspondent for Time, and I just couldn’t get their style; usually, I can suss what’s required.
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Quote Unquote: The best of My Net Worth from the past year

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By Ella Somers, Tamara Poi-Ngawhika
| BusinessDesk
Welcome to the most memorable quotes and advice from BusinessDesk’s My Net Worth series in 2023. We’ve combed through all our revealing conversations with New Zealand’s top business and legal minds and chosen the standout thoughts. In my view, good businesses are good at business. And that's why they become good businesses.
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Gas demand could outstrip supply by 2025 causing energy shortfall

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By Ian Llewellyn , Ella Somers
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Gas demand in New Zealand is likely to outstrip supply between 2025 and 2027, raising the prospect of an energy shortfall across the economy, a report commissioned by the gas sector regulator says.The Gas Industry Company (GIC) report, written by consultants EY, looks at a range of scenarios considering different ways gas demand and supply will play out in the coming years and decades.Demand has been falling as some major industrial users ended operations or cut them back.
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