Mahesh Muralidhar is the National Party’s candidate for Auckland Central. He is also the chief executive of Phase One Ventures, a New Zealand venture firm which supports and funds start-ups to grow and succeed. He mentors and invests into several start-ups in New Zealand and Australia. He's had extension experience at many startups with a broad range of outcomes. One of them you might have heard of- Canva, where we was the 25th employee and helped them grow to 250 people as Head of People. Please enjoy this conversation, I know I did.