The life and ramblings of Canada's most innovative Technology leader
Why are Canadians (in tech) so risk averse? It comes off as a bit odd actually, we live in a country that is huge and has a ton of opportunities to branch out and do something amazing, yet we’re an
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Are developers getting smarter or dumber? I personally didn’t start coding because it was a huge passion. I wanted to go down the road of building super cool things for NASA (or CSA – the Canadian Space Agency) and while
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Unicorns distract tech founders from the grave This week’s article will be much smaller and lighter to consume, it is merely a warning to all #founders and investors out there about #unicorns. Lee calculated that 1 in 1,538 software and
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The best decisions I’ve made in my career I have always had a bit of an edge, something super competitive in me that drove me to be better than my self of yesterday. It’s an unrelenting hunger that I use
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Learning (in tech) never stops In my quest to become a superstar in the tech world I feel like I stagnated at times, especially at learning in my early career (as evidenced in my posts regarding how Canada belongs at
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Should your startup take VC money? Speaking with fellow investors, we often chat about whether we are always doing the right thing by investing in the businesses we do. It’s not that we do or don’t believe in the specific
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Gaining the experience to build data, ETL, ML and AI pipelines in the real world For years and years, I have been progressively building my way up to this. From the times early in my career where I was simply
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Growing a tech startup 30 employees in less than one year This is something that I have now done many times over in my personal career, being a very early engineer at many places that required my expertise, not only
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Full on alignment required The way high-performing organizations operate today is radically different from how they operated 10 years ago. Yet many other organizations continue to operate according to industrial-age models that are 100 years old or more, weighed down
Read moreMerely one week after my post about incubators and accelerators, DMZ named best in the world! In the seven years the DMZ has been running, they have supported 317 startups that have raised $357 million and created almost 4,000 jobs.
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