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TechTO @TechTO

2 weeks ago

Full talk from Market Overview: Insurtech at TTW 2026 → youtu.be/cI5GxPgDcGE @classonde #TTW2026 #TechTO #Insurtech #CanadianVC #BuildInCanada

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"If you're building in insurtech and it's not AI, don't bother raising. Not this year. Probably not next year either." - Christian Lassonde, Founding Managing Partner at Impression Ventures - $150M+ AUM, early backer of Wealthsimple.

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2 weeks ago

@tksimpson Full conversation is up now: youtube.com/watch?v=uRVlMn…

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2 weeks ago

@tksimpson He could have stayed on a beach after the exit. He started Courtyard instead. "Once you kind of have that entrepreneurial itch, it really doesn't go away."

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2 weeks ago

In 2015 @tksimpson was running Wave from a broom closet, on the phone with Silicon Valley Bank, asking them not to pull the debt keeping the company alive. Wave later sold for $537M. Here's what he told the room at TiEQuest 2026.

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2 weeks ago

@Tyler_Handley @MicheleRomanow @cbcdragon @getclearco @comfrt This is what happens in the room at TechTO. Next Together Toronto is July 6: luma.com/together-toron…

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2 weeks ago

@Tyler_Handley @MicheleRomanow @cbcdragon @getclearco @comfrt The lesson under the argument: stop chasing the moat the internet tells you to chase. Find distribution. Let community show up on its own.

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2 weeks ago

Two founders who actually built and sold consumer brands got on stage at Tech Week and disagreed about the one thing every founder is told to build right now: community. Here's what they said instead. 🧵

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2 weeks ago

Full talk from Beyond the Bubble at TTW 2026 → youtu.be/yX-8JLMUat8 @willhsu @mucker #TTW2026 #TechTO #FounderAdvice #BuildInCanada

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2 weeks ago

"The problem is the problem. You can't pivot the problem. Focus on solving something different - not building something better." - Will Hsu, General Partner at Mucker Capital, backed Honey ($4B exit), ServiceTitan ($9B IPO), and AuditBoard ($3B) all outside Silicon Valley.