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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1626/
- Published: 2026-11-09T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T17:29:59.000Z
- Description: The billionaire founder of tech companies Adaytum and Anaplan has been vocal about New Zealand’s poor economic performance in the past decade and says the country needs stability and a long-term plan.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, NZ Politics

> Outspoken business leader Guy Haddleton is calling on Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins to form a grand coalition.  
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> “Here’s my question for Chris Luxon and Chris Hipkins. Before you start negotiating with the smaller parties, why don’t you sit down with each other?” he said.  
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> “Not just for a photograph, but a serious conversation about how National and Labour would govern together around a long-term national plan, building ambition?”  
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> The billionaire founder of tech companies Adaytum and Anaplan [has been vocal](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/money-talks-i-was-a-lost-soul-billionaire-guy-haddleton-on-business-success-and-nzs-lack-of-vision/premium/F472K4OA2RHE7JXIXOX5CBST7E/?ref=goodoil.news) about New Zealand’s poor economic performance in the past decade and says the country needs stability and a long-term plan.  
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> That’s a formula he doesn’t believe can be achieved with a “business as usual” approach to MMP.  
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> “What’s happened so far is that we’ve got a potential coalition on either side that is going to be very fragile and is unlikely to navigate our way through the next three years with confidence if there’s global uncertainty,” Haddleton said.  
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> NZ Herald

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