EP 93 · Yarns with Andy

Christian Van Der Pump

Hosted by Andy Alagappan
About This Episode

In this episode of Yarns with Andy, I sit down with Christian Van Der Pump, Senior Fire Engineer at Kirk Roberts.

We discuss how monopoly control over building consents kills competition and pushes prices up, and the wild story of how he started using Parliament as his own personal publishing platform.

Join us for a straight-up conversation about fixing a broken system, thinking like an economist, and what it actually takes to leave this industry better than you found it.

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