My SoulTeam Podcast

Adrian is the founder and CEO of a local digital design and software development studio Aequilibrium. We talk about prioritizing the values fit when hiring, using VR technology to improve collaboration, the importance of the learning mindset, and much more.

Company profile on My SoulTeam: https://mysoulteam.com/companies/aequilibrium

Company website: https://aequilibrium.com

Jason is the founder and CEO of a local tech startup Klue. We talk about choosing the venture capital route and its pros and cons, the importance of trust, the challenges of unlimited vacation policies, the intensity and expectations of working at a startup, and much more.

Company profile on My SoulTeam: https://mysoulteam.com/companies/klue

Company website: https://www.klue.com

Chris is the president and co-founder of a local agency TTT Studios. We talk about his fascination for different countries and cultures, learning first business lessons early on, staying competitive and ignoring the price wars, using a complex scorecard to evaluate potential clients, and how they are checking for culture fit during the interview process, and much more.

Company website:

https://ttt.studio

John is the CEO and founder of a local tech startup in the charitable giving space Charitable Impact. We talk about the importance of understanding what you do and don’t like doing, the decline of charitable giving in Canada, the lack of education on the culture of giving, as a whole, the importance of not getting distracted by the candidate’s passion for the cause and not forgetting to evaluate the technical skills, and much more.

Company website:

https://www.charitableimpact.com

Danna is the CEO of a local hotel furniture platform HotelFurniture.com. We talk about Danna's career path going through the ranks, the value of defining company values together as a team, learning from mistakes and experiments, and the importance of understanding your own self and how you can do it, and much more.

Company website: https://www.hotelfurniture.com

Predictive Index: https://www.predictiveindex.com

Andrew is the Co-CEO of a local music blockchain startup Beatdapp. We talk about Andrew's life full of entrepreneurial ventures and experiments, growing up in a military family while being a rebel, buying a struggling restaurant in Los Angeles and running it for 12 years, getting inspired by Tony Hsieh from Zappos and publishing their annual culture book, and much more.

Company website: https://beatdapp.com/

Culture Book: https://bit.ly/beatdapp-culturebook-vol2

Ivelina Vladimirova is the COO of a local design studio Neon. Ivelina shares her professional journey in telecom, and how she manages multiple strategic roles with several companies at the same time. We discuss the importance of hiring the right people for the job, why the right size for a company is under one hundred people, how Neon’s team fits into the bigger picture of Tcap Investments, why it is important to hire fresh graduates, and much more.

Company website: https://neon.cc

JP Holecka is the founder and CEO of POWERSHiFTER, a local Vancouver digital product and service design studio. We talk about why JP started the agency, admitting mistakes, the importance of research, challenges of long-term planning with ADHD, noticing signals about upcoming trends before others, and of course company culture.

Company website: https://powershifter.com/

Company blog: https://powershifter.com/blog/

Greg Smith is the founder and CEO of Thinkific, a local Vancouver startup with the goal of empowering anyone in the world to easily share their knowledge through online courses. We talk about how and why Greg started the company, how they support internal growth and experimentation, how they improve the diversity of their team and much more.

Mentions:

- Company website: https://thinkific.com

Margery Moore is the founder and CEO of ehsAI, a local tech startup in the AI space. We talk about Margery's story, why she started the company, what makes a good candidate and what is considered to be a red flag, and also the reality of working in an early-stage tech startup.

Company website: https://ehsai.com

Q&A with Margery: https://www.ehsai.ca/blog/2020/2/14/a-qampa-with-margery-moore-founder-and-ceo

Spring Incubator: https://spring.is/