John Ruffolo is the Founder & Managing Partner of Maverix Private Equity. Maverix is a private equity firm focused on technology-enabled growth and disruption. They look for great entrepreneurs interested in globally scaling their business and looking for a financial partner to invest at least USD $50M to $75M in the business. In this episode, we discuss how John started OMERS Ventures, the story behind his big investment in Shopify and his thoughts on the Canadian tech space.