Founder Journey | The Untold Stories of the Founder Journey

Welcome to the first season of TechTOgether’s Founder’s Journey series. 

In this series we talk with the founders of emerging Canadian tech start-ups, and learn about their journey to building their current business.

Today’s guests are Mike Wood and Mehrsa Raeiszadeh the Co-Founder’s of MintList. MintList was founded in 2020 to improve the used car sell’s process by better connecting consumers selling and buying used vehicles to dealerships.

Today we will go through Mike’s and Mehrsa’s backgrounds, the insight that led to the creation of MintList, how they decided to co-found the company, the journey so far and what the future holds.

To learn more about MintList and their current opportunities visit: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mintlist/

You can also check out this fun and informative video to learn more about how it all works (it's received over 130,000 views on YouTube): https://youtu.be/9W1lFmRrGiI

Meet the companies that are taking careers to the moon!

Joining a category-defining technology start-up can accelerate your career. It does this by increasing your knowledge and skills, providing a strong network and potentially creating enough wealth to start your own company in the future.  

The question is: Which one should you join? 

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TechTO worked with leading venture capitalists and angels to identify the rocketship companies that have the potential to accelerate your career.

Today's episode, we are introduced to Mehdi Nayebi, CEO and Co-Founder of Flashbox. We learn more about his journey, how Flashbox is re-defining an industry, and what it's like to work there.

Check out their jobs at www.flashbox.co/career/

Three Comma Club is a series that follows Founders and their company stories. From inception to billion dollar valuation, we learn about how these Founders created a unicorn company, the choices they made, and the lessons they learned along the way. 

Today's episode, Alex Norman sits down with Mike Murchison, CEO at Ada to discuss the companies journey and the important lessons he's learned along the way.

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Three Comma Club is a series that follows Founders and their company stories. From inception to billion dollar valuation, we learn about how these Founders created a unicorn company, the choices they made, and the lessons they learned along the way.

Today's episode, Alex Norman sits down with Arnaud Van de Voorde, Vice President, Global Digital Strategy at CAE to discuss the companies journey and the important lessons he's learned along the way.

We're going back through the TechTO Archives to feature current newsmakers and their conversations from past TechTO events. 

In this episode, we hear from James Rife of Canalyst who spoke about 'What Went Right' during the first 24 months of the companies existence. 

We are sharing this content after Canalyst's recent acquisition news this past week. 

Check out the full conversation on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/BqmDV_dOvvE

On this episode of Founder Fridays, Alex Norman sat down with Co-Founders Spiro Papathanasakis and Simon Dermer of eSSENTIAL Accessibility, to learn the ins and outs of building a business, scaling an idea, and all the lessons they've learned along the way. 

Welcome to Founder Fridays. Each week, we sit down with Founders to learn more about their journey and what it takes to launch and grow a successful business. 

Today's episode features Christopher Barnard, Co-Founder, President and Director at Points - who chats with us about all things Points, his journey as a Co-Founder, and what it's like to work for Points. 

Three Comma Club is a series that follows Founders and their company stories. From inception to billion dollar valuation, we learn about how these Founders created a unicorn company, the choices they made, and the lessons they learned along the way.

Today's episode, Alex Norman sits down with Mike Wessinger, Co-Founder and Executive Chair of PointClickCare to discuss his journey and key takeaways.

Three Comma Club is a series that follows Founders and their company stories. From inception to billion dollar valuation, we learn about how these Founders created a unicorn company, the choices they made, and the lessons they learned along the way. 

Today's episode, Alex Norman sits down with Marcelo Cortes, the CTO & Co-Founder of Faire to discuss his journey and takeaways.

Dileep Thazhmon, CEO & Founder at Jeeves (YC S20).