
How Shopify's Head of Engineering Thinks About His Job And AI - Farhan Thawer
Shopify's VP & Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar joins StartWell to unpack Sidekick, why Shopify builds its own tools instead of buying them, and how a 7,000-person hackathon and 1,000 annual interns ...
6 Elo 1h 13min

Saud Aziz wants to fix how Canadian businesses manage money — and he's not waiting for the banks to do it.
Venn co-founder Saud Aziz on building Canada's business banking alternative — from a cold email to employee #5, Revolut's Canadian expansion, and raising a $21.5M Series A from a team of 10.
24 Kesä 1h

This Founder Left Washington To Defend Canada's Arctic - Eliot Pence
Former Anduril executive Eliot Pence left Washington DC to build the defense company Canada never had. Here's why he came back — and what's at stake.
27 Touko 56min

Som Seif on Why Canadians Are Afraid of the Wrong Thing
Som Seif has spent two decades disrupting Canadian financial services — first with Claymore, one of Canada's earliest ETF companies, then as co-founder of Wealthsimple, and now as CEO of Purpose Unlim...
11 Touko 1h 2min

Buy a Business, Don't Start One? Steven Wang on Canada's Entrepreneurship Revolution
Steven Wang, Rhodes Scholar, Harvard-trained lawyer, and CEO of Venture for Canada, joins Qasim Virjee at StartWell to talk about what it really takes to future-proof the next generation of Canadian w...
4 Touko 58min

Teaching Students to Embrace Failure | AJ Tibando
Canada has no shortage of talent - but according to AJ Tibando, we have a mindset problem.As CEO of Shift Canada, AJ is leading a national effort to reshape how young people think about risk, failure,...
21 Huhti 1h 9min

How AI is Rewriting Venture Capital - Karim Gillani (Luge Capital)
Karim Gillani has had a front-row seat to some of the most important shifts in technology and finance over the past two decades. From early days in mobile payments to leading M&A at companies like Xoo...
14 Huhti 1h 19min




















