Rod Drury
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Xero. Drury founded Xero in Wellington in 2006 with Hamish Edwards, betting that small-business accounts belonged online rather than on one office PC. Automatic bank feeds, a shared ledger for owner and accountant, and an open API that let hundreds of other apps plug in made it a serious rival to desktop packages in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. He stepped down as chief executive in 2018.
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