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Stephen Jarislowksy, one of the fearless voices who took on Canada's corporate elite, has died One of my favourite gems from him:
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I'm a big fan of both, as you know
Holy crap - the legendary Mark Leonard at the @MaverixPe agm on stage with @ruffoloj
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Mark is a great Canadian legend and long-time friend. We are lucky to learn from one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time.
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BNN has found a replacement who is just as pretty as Amber Kanwar
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This turned out to be somewhere between misleading and a lie: @nejatian at $OPEN Truns out he's getting $15m cash in the first year and RSUs valued at $15m h/t @stockgeekTV
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B.C. billionaire Ryan Beedie buys into Vistara Capital, commits $125-million to new fund theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Turbopuffer co-founder Simon Eskilsen has some spicy takes: -β€œthe AI funding program is a joke, no one can rely on it.” -β€œI couldn’t care less about Canadian VCs…. If you take only Canadian VC right now, probably NGMI” ...
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Turbopuffer is β€œby far the biggest company by revenue that’s ever come out of Shopify.” β€œCanadian startups do not compound, and the reason that they do not compound is because it’s high status in Canada to retire to the cottage” love the directness!
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Turbopuffer was rebuffed by the government's AI Ayatollah:
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The Turbopuffer story (raising less than US $1m and reaching revenues of $100m) shows how silly it is for governments to try to pick winners right now, someone in Canada is working on the Next Big Thing and it's impossible to say who
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A lot of non-Jewish Canadian business bigwigs signed a full page ad against Antisemitism Many big names
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Toronto fintech Float hits $548-million value with new funding as it pushes into AI finance software theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Sean Silcoff always has the best stories: angel investors are even weirder than I thought
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As I said, the Westons got jealous of BetaKit and launched BeGiant
29-year old Canadian entrepreneur @goswish has co-founded two companies (Dunk, Surf) and written a book. Now he's onto BrokerPlus, serving mortgage brokers, plus angel investing. "Nowadays, it's a lot more around focus." More from @StacyLeeKong: begiant.ca/stories/people/sw…
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The best way to understand Cohere is to follow its equivalent in France, Mistral: they have been more transparent about their pivot to being service providers (they even use other firms' open-source LLMs) Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez was an angel investor in Mistral!
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The Canadian media is just not doing the work to properly report Cohere's standing and business model
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