Bruce Plested, the co-founder of Mainfreight that employs 11,000 people, is a billionaire who gives much of his money away. He has some interesting things to say on running a business, training staff, learning from Māori, sharing profits with his workers, a wealth tax, and more. In 2014 he donated $100,000 to Te Pāti Māori and $45,000 to the National Party. In 2017 he donated $100,000 to TPM and nothing to National .... Click here to read
Rahjna Patel and her husband Kantilal Prasad built a network of nearly 50 highly successful healthcare clinics in Auckland, starting in Ōtara, where the focus was patient care.
"You've got to know when you have enough," she says as she talks about their charity work.
The Patels sold their last remaining business in 2022, leaving them to focus on community work, which includes a Hindu temple they had built in Papatoetoe and a successful family harm prevention programme Gandhi Nivas. Click here to read.
* These two stories are part of a special RNZ series, RICH: The meaning of wealth in Aotearoa. Over several days, feature interviews by Corin Dann and Anusha Bradley with a diverse range of wealthy and powerful New Zealanders examine attitudes to wealth, ideas for making us a richer country and what to do with money when you have plenty of it.
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