Ruslan Nikolaev is the co-founder of Journal Technologies. At Journal, Ruslan is disrupting the current CDN financial services & corporate credit card environment. Journal removes the friction from the corporate card application process and offers features that aren't available from others in the market.

We talk about building your first prototype and iterating, how to land your first customers, VC-backed startups vs going bootstrapped, Learning vs Education, differences between Canadian and American VC space and the future of Fintech

Ruslan graduated from the UWaterloo/Wilfrid Laurier CS & BBA double degree program where he was an international case competitor for JDCC Laurier as well as a Software Lead on UW's Hyperloop team. He also has worked at Shopify and Uber.

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References discussed:

Medium Article — How to Generate Drake Lyrics using a Machine Learning Algorithm: https://towardsdatascience.com/generating-drake-rap-lyrics-using-language-models-and-lstms-8725d71b1b12

Velocity Incubator: https://velocityincubator.com/

Tim Ferriss Podcast: tim.blog/podcast/

Jason Calacanis Twitter: twitter.com/Jason

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Where to find Ruslan:

Twitter: twitter.com/nikolaevra

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nikolaevra

Medium: medium.com/@nikolaevra

Journal Twitter: twitter.com/tryjournal

Journal Website: www.tryjournal.com