Toronto

“And today, I would say our brand awareness in Toronto is incredibly high. Maybe 90% of the people know.”

“So the good thing about Toronto is you get all the Waterloo kids that don't come here.”

“In the Bay Area, the cost of that talent, you know, is very expensive. Whereas this talent is in Toronto, which has a great University of Toronto where all the AI researchers coming. The cost in Toronto is low. The churn is less.”

“We have the offices to get differentiated access. It's not to get beta. We can get beta from screens in Toronto. We can get beta through swaps and ETFs. We need alpha. We open the offices to get alpha.”

“Well, we launched it in December of 2015 in Toronto, and within, like, two hours, we had done, like, 20,000 dollars for the sales. It was crazy how quickly we saw that, that it was the right idea and the unit economy for good. And then four and a half years la…”

“Sundays here at Shopify. We have something called builder Sundays. So we open up the offices. It's done in Montreal and Toronto. So anyone in the city that's an entrepreneur can come in and work from here.”

“All of our new SDR and BDR hires are five days a week in office in Toronto now.”

“Uber eats first market was Toronto.”

“When they launched Toronto, we hadn't even raised a dollar of VC money at that time.”

“We're now working with 300 restaurants in Toronto.”

“We went to a store at Bay and Dundas in downtown Toronto, like the Times Square of Toronto, and there's a grocery store there, and I bought, like, 200 dollars worth of, like, food that had a day left of shelf life, and we set up a table at the corner of Bay an…”

“Mike Katchin started by doing lunch and learns. He literally would run around Toronto with lunches back like 10 years ago when he started just to do lunch and learns about finance and investing in different companies. And that's how he got his first few users.”

“There's one, I would say one or two big differences with our intern program. One is we're making them come in three days a week. Versus full remote. And the reason for that is early, and we're doing it just in three offices right now, Montreal, Toronto, and Ot…”

“Yeah, we have tons of teammates in Toronto and Montreal, and first of all, it's literally one dollar US, as we're recording this, it's one dollar US is one 39 Canadian. So you get a 39%, like on the financial side, you're getting a 39% discount, basically righ…”

“The rates of deaths caused by impaired driving in these smaller towns is seven times higher than places like Toronto and bigger cities.”

“But we have offices in the UK, and now we started an office in Toronto, Canada to spearhead the North American expansion, and I guess we were seeing more traction in North America, and also a huge market, of course, for us.”

“Ada's now a unicorn out of Toronto doing over fifty million in ARR.”

“We raised money from kind of random people, from, like, random, like, consultants and executives and lawyers, just random people that could write a 25 or fifty-k check, you know, in exchange for 20 or 30% of the business. Like, that, that was the environment t…”

“We ended up hiring international rescue agents to get it, like, this is a story for a movie. It, it's been incredible. He is now in Toronto.”

“So right now we have over 30 cars right now. [257] Nathan Latka: Okay. [257] Giovanni Smith: And we're growing. [258] Giovanni Smith: So right now we're just based in Toronto right now.”

“I probably, when I was younger, would have probably benefited from just going west and getting into the Silicon Valley scene a lot sooner than I did later.”

“Toronto, for example, is I think less entrepreneurial. It's the biggest city in Canada. It's far more, you know, there's like, there's the wall street of Canada called Bay street in Toronto.”

“We support 40 pizza shops in Toronto and they use us on their mailers, on their boxes in order to get customers to re-engage, leave reviews, buy more pizzas, all that type of stuff.”

“AMIA, A-I-M-I-A. They're a public company based out of Toronto. They're literally shutting down Asia.”

“We have six people six people out of Toronto. We have 12 people out of Out of Russia.”

“Yeah, I think it does vary by region, and I think a lot of that is a byproduct of the micro or the ecosystem on the capital side within those regions. So investors within a region really, I think, are setting the price for what may be the norm there, and so we…”

“He did a million dollars in revenue in his first full calendar year.”

“This probably is in the sector, but I think Canada for the last two years deserves full credit for just really slaying it. I think it's an indication of how important cost of living is to young companies getting their start. And Canada as a country is just fro…”