Vancouver

“He did the expo 1986, the Vancouver expo, and we didn't talk about this in the episode, but he ran this and he ran it successfully and under budget brought in all this money, all these companies to Vancouver”

“In Vancouver, the police had to arrest the same 40 offenders 6000 times. 40 guys. Each one of these guys was arrested on average once every two days. A 150 times a year for one guy.”

“Didn't even have a hundred dollars. Like, I went to this hair salon in Vancouver. After the haircut, she said it cost one 50 dollars. I didn't have one 50 dollars, so I called my dad, he was sleeping again at midnight in India, asked him to transfer money so I…”

“I had all this international experience at some huge, well-respected companies, leaders in their fields. And I was basically told that I needed local experience, which I didn't even know that was necessary unless maybe you were like working in a restaurant or …”

“Part of the problem is, is that the people with money in Silicon Valley typically made it doing early stage startups, you know, and they, so they understand it. Versus people in places like, you know, Vancouver, or Chicago, or, you know, DC, made their money e…”

“The brand he built out of his house in Vancouver is now worth more than fourteen billion dollars.”

“So one of the ways we grew really quickly at Zenefits in terms of hiring was we were able to tap talent all over the world. It was just easier to bring them To Vancouver in terms of immigration than like the US.”

“So we're all in Vancouver right now. We're nine people.”

“There were not, and was not a level of sophistication in Vancouver around social media, let alone cloud and SaaS.”

“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…”