The Peak Daily

BC's Blockstream raises $200 million and reaches unicorn status. The world's largest shipping company is expanding its fleet with cleaner ships. And TikTok is getting big into social commerce with who else... Shopify, of course.

The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.

National Bank announced that they'll be the second investing platform to offer a zero commission on trades service. Pfizer is buying Ontario's Trillium Biosciences in a blockbuster $2 billion deal. And Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit wants to go public via SPAC.

The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.

TD, CIBC, and RBC all announced that they’ll require employees to get vaccinated if they want to work in an office or branch. Putnam Partners is buying the Canadian rights to Toys ‘R Us in an attempt to turn around the struggling toy brand. And OnlyFans is removing all sexually explicit content to appease the credit card kings.

The Peak Daily is produced by 306 Media Productions. Hosted by Brett Chang and Jay Rosenthal.

Put this in the podcasting history books: it's The Peak Daily's first episode. Facebook unveiled their new virtual workspaces and, spoiler, it's heavy on cartoons. Wealthsimple's teaming up with Twitter to let you tip your favourite Tweeters. And Amazon's Target is on Target?

The Peak’s launching our daily business news podcast, creatively titled, The Peak Daily.

Everyday, Jay Rosenthal and Peak co-founder Brett Chang will give you a run-down of the three biggest business stories you need in less than 10 minutes.

Listen while you have your first coffee, take a morning jog, or on your (future?) morning commute.

Drops everyday at 6am. Produced by 306 Media Productions.

Dr. Brett Belchetz is the CEO of Maple and Joe Diubaldo is the CEO of Clarity. In this episode, we speak with both about the experience of a Canadian founder building a high growth company. We do a deep dive into topics ranging from the role of finance teams in fast growing startups, maintaining culture as you scale and recruiting top talent.

Andrew Ostro is the CEO of PolicyMe, an online platform that makes buying life insurance easy. In this episode, we chat about Andrew's unique background, taking the jump from a high paying consulting job into entrepreneurship and what it's like to disrupt the very dated insurance industry.

Kim Kaplan is the CEO of Snack, a hybrid between TikTok and Tinder. In this episode, we talk about Kim's unique path from Queen's to serving at a restaurant to becoming an exec at Plenty of Fish and Match.com. We also get into Snack's recent success and what it's like to be an early stage founder.

Michael Serbinis is the Founder and CEO of League and one of Canada's legendary entrepreneurs. In this episode, we do a deep dive into Mike's career — starting with his work at Microsoft and Elon Musk founded Zip2 — and discuss lessons that he's learned along his incredible journey.

In this week's episode, we talk to Mark Coombs, Co-Founder of Sleepout, about his path from law to tech and do a deep dive into how he launched his exciting new e-commerce business. If you're interested in building your own e-commerce business, this podcast is for you. Mark talks to us about where the idea for Sleepout came from, how the designed the product, how they're getting it manufactured in China and their thinking behind the crowdfunding campaign. It's a great conversation and I know you'll enjoy it.