Who is Rowan Simpson?
From their modest early days to multi-million dollar exits, Rowan Simpson has been at the heart of New Zealand's most successful technology companies. As a founding team member at Trade Me and Xero, he witnessed first hand how great companies are built through consistent execution. His subsequent investments and hands-on work with ventures like Vend and Timely have helped shape a generation of high-growth companies.
Rowan lives on a feijoa orchard near Nelson in New Zealand.
What to expect?
Top Three is an irregular but must-read newsletter on startups and many other random topics. It started as a weekly newsletter in 2021. A lot of that writing formed the basis for Rowan’s book How To Be Wrong (published in February 2025).
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