Bill Day

Just noticed that the last week had a cool profile of Bill Day.

Bill is one of NZ's leading entrepreneurs and the force behind Seaworks. Also one of the nicest people you can to meet.

Bill's also Vice-Chair (the other one!) of the NZ Business Roundtable. That of course makes him an villain to some. Bill comments:

Convinced that it is promoting the best interests of , he says the Roundtable cops a lot of flak, but mainly because it is right. “It is easier to demonise them than argue with them. Having a reasoned debate with them is bloody hard, because their research is so good.”

We've just seen this of course last week with the CIS study of the extra $20 billion . Lots of demonising the author and publisher and next to zero actual debating the facts.