His Ghost Army Posts for You, at Scale — Legally (Matt Espinoza)
Matt Espinoza sold his first software company the same week he graduated university — then did it again, faster. Now, at 23, he runs Clover Labs (AI), a Toronto startup that grew to 65 employees in a ...
11 Sep 58min
$600M Earned, Zero Commission: Why Stan Gives Away the Money
Stan has helped over 100,000 creators and entrepreneurs earn more than $600M online — and takes $0 in commission on any of it. Vitalii Dodonov, co-founder and CTO of Stan, explains why the team made t...
2 Sep 42min
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 Aug 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 Jun 1h
The Business Model Behind Affirm - An Honest Credit Card Alternative (Wayne Pommen, Affirm CRO)
Affirm CRO Wayne Pommen on building and selling PayBright, why credit cards are broken, and what Canada's fintech scene needs to grow up.
4 Jun 1h 7min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 58min
