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Robert Bear:

Welcome to the Invention Stories Podcast. I am your host Robert Bear, and thank you for joining us. I would like to introduce you to our very first sponsor of the Invention Stories Podcast…the Socket Saver. Do you have loose wall sockets in your house? The Socket Saver is an easy, safe, and effective solution for you. Please visit their website at www.SocketSaver.com. You’re listening to Episode 19 of the Invention Stories Podcast, Jamie Sutherland and Sonix.  The show notes for this episode have been transcribed using Sonix.

Jamie Sutherland co-founded and launch Canada’s first mobile taxi hailing app TaxiNow that was acquired by FastCab. He was the president of Xero, US where he helped it grow from a market capitalization of 200 million to 2.5 billion. Jamie is now the co-founder and CEO of Sonix, Inc. Transcribing and editing audio and video is painful and Sonix makes it really fast, refreshingly simple and remarkably affordable. I’m grateful for the opportunity to interview someone so successful on the Invention Stories Podcast so let’s get started. Jamie, thank you for joining us today. I want to start off by asking what kind of child were you? Did you enjoy figuring out how things worked or were you interested in computers or artificial intelligence?

Jamie Sutherland:

I got bored easily and like being active.  I found myself always doing something. In terms of computers, my first experience was with a Commodore 64 and that wasn’t really anything more than playing games. But we got good at copying games and getting as many games on diskettes as possible.  Then I got into creating our own games but that was offline, not with a computer. Lots of things around creating board games, building furniture and building wood constructs were largely influenced by my father.

One of the funniest things I built was a skateboard. At the time, I don’t think we had skateboards where we lived but we had roller skates and also had wood.  So combined some wood with some carpet and attached a roller skate to the bottom and then sat on it going down hills. That was a lot of fun. So I guess the story goes yes, I like to build things and create things.  I just found that a lot of fun and rewarding.

Robert Bear:

Right on. I just wanted to start off with a little bit of background first before we get into it.  Did you have any family members who were entrepreneurs or inventors?

Jamie Sutherland:

No I didn’t but I was always inspired by creators that were around me. I think building things like my father did around the house was a lot of fun for me. It was more the creation of things, that whole process I found interesting. I think if I look back when I was younger, my vocation probably would have been as an architectural or engineer but I felt like I was encouraged to do business and that started early on,