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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Apr 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 Apr 1h 19min
