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Jeffrey: Waterloo has world's highest startup density outside Silicon Valley
“Waterloo has the highest density of startups per capita in the world outside of Silicon Valley.”
Ryan Seiders bought 49.5% of YETI by funding three shipping containers
“Ryan's buy-in to get 49.5% of the company was to use his Some of his proceeds from his Waterloo sale. And so he bought the first three container loads of product that came in from the Philippines.”
Early Silicon Valley was a monoculture of elite university and tech alumni
“And in Silicon Valley at the time, you know, it really, there is a very monocultural aspect of, you know, folks from a few schools, you know, folks having worked at a few companies and I had neither, you know, I worked, I went to Waterloo, which is in Canada, …”
Coolican: Edtech innovation will start with non-consumers before moving up-market
“I think, you know, and I don't know if this is always true, but I think probably you will see the innovation come from the bottom up, and you will see the innovation come where right now the alternative is like non-consumption, right? So it won't necessarily b…”