Last week we announced to the marketplace the acquisition of Kognition into Intergen. Kognition is/was a Dunedin-based company headed by Chris Auld.
I met Chris in my time in Dunedin and I remember one particular NZTE-organised event. Chris felt the key issue facing the industry was education (it still is…) and I remember getting him (and the others there) to also think of the community, aka the Johnson & Johnson credo.
Chris also gave me some advice on my business I never forgot. Put simply it was “don’t be scared to hire more people”. Well as it turned out, I was still shit-scared for about another year after that… then I kind of got over it (or decided to just take the step). Anyway, it’s all history now. I did have to laugh when I saw my old post commenting on the look of Kognition’s website.
The result of this merger is that we now have a Dunedin office, or one in all four major NZ cities plus Sydney. There are some exciting things happening at work, if you’re thinking of making a move… now is good! Send me your CVs!
Update: It was also picked up by the DomPost
