
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 Juni 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 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




















