The Peak Daily

Daryna Kulya is the Co-Founder of OpenPhone, an app that gives you a business phone in minutes. In this episode, we explore Daryna's journey into entrepreneurship, get the origin story on OpenPhone, talk about her YCombinator experience and how they raised $16 million. It's an engaging conversation with a Canadian founder who you need to know.

Jeffrey Doucet is the CEO of Thrive, a career wellness platform that is transforming the way organizations manage outplacement and career transitions. In this week's episode, we talk about Jeff's entrepreneurial journey, his remarkable business pivot and the future of his company and HR tech in general.

Qasim Mohammad is a director at Wittington Ventures, a Toronto-based venture capital firm with strong affiliations to iconic Canadian brands Loblaw, Shoppers Drug Mart, Choice Properties, PC Financial, Joe Fresh and Selfridges Group. In this week's episode, we talk to Qasim about his journey to venture capital, the story of Wittington Ventures, and his latest project Fire Ant.

Last year, Jordan Owen and his team identified early that masks were going to be critical in fighting COVID-19. So they assembled an army of seamstresses and sold over 350,000 masks. Now, Jordan's using the proceeds of that to fund his exciting new property tech startup called Squarefeet.ai. In this week's Peak Weekly, we talk to Jordan about his journey and learn how he's been so agile in the pandemic.

Make Lemonade is a coworking space for women in downtown Toronto founded by Rachel Kelly. In this episode, we chat with Rachel about her fascinating journey into coworking, her experience as a solo-founder, how she got her first customers, tips on community building and how she pivoted to a whole new business model in response to COVID-19. It's an awesome conversation and I can't wait for you to hear it.

In this week's episode, we talk to David Skok, CEO of The Logic about his storied career in media, the thought that went into launching The Logic, and we get into a conversation about why he invested in us!

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War Child Canada is a leading Canadian charity and their impact is felt around the world. With operations in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, War Child is working with local communities to create environments where children can thrive. 

As you can imagine this isn't easy. Which is why this week we're talking to Elliot Pobjoy, Chief Strategy Office at War Child Canada. In this episode, we talk to Elliot about War Child Canada's incredible work, Elliot's path from corporate law to philanthropy, managing remote teams in very challenging environments, the relationship between charities and their donors and advice on how to most effectively give back.

It's a deep dive into what it's like to manage and grow a multimillion dollar charity and there are tons of lessons that I'm sure you can apply to your own life.