Toronto

7 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2023 by Mike Silagadze · said 87 times in 43 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Feb 15, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Silagadze: Early Top Hat angels took 30% equity for $25,000 checks
“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…”
Mike Silagadze Feb 15, 2023 ▶ 26:49 Mike Silagadze, Founder of TopHat ($200M+ Raised) | How to Start your Second Startup · PMF Show
Mar 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Srugo: Toronto Startup Ada Surpassed $50M ARR and Unicorn Status
“Ada's now a unicorn out of Toronto doing over fifty million in ARR.”
Pablo Srugo Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 5:07 The Five Steps to Product Market Fit · PMF Show
Sep 30, 2024
Assertion Supported
Ruberto: Small-town impaired driving death rates are 7x higher than major cities
“The rates of deaths caused by impaired driving in these smaller towns is seven times higher than places like Toronto and bigger cities.”
Cody Ruberto Sep 30, 2024 ▶ 2:55 He launched an Uber competitor with just $3,000—& grew to $20M in revenue in 7 years. | Cody Rube... · PMF Show
Dec 26, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Wealthsimple Acquired Its First Users Through Corporate Lunch and Learns
“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.”
Pablo Srugo Dec 26, 2024 ▶ 9:15 24 ways to get your first customers—based on real examples from the last 100 episodes. · PMF Show
Jan 20, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Domingues sold $200 of expiring groceries in 20 minutes on the street
“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…”
Josh Domingues Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 13:45 He lost his only 2 customers & was ready to quit—then he grew to $1.5M ARR in a year. | Josh Domi... · PMF Show
Mar 24, 2025
Disclosure
SkipTheDishes Reached Scale With Zero VC Funding Before Uber Eats Launched
“When they launched Toronto, we hadn't even raised a dollar of VC money at that time.”
Jeff Adamson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 6:29 He sold SkipTheDishes for $200M—then grew Neo Financial to a $1B valuation. | Jeff Adamson, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
Mar 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Jeff Adamson: Toronto was the first market for Uber Eats
“Uber eats first market was Toronto.”
Jeff Adamson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 6:20 He sold SkipTheDishes for $200M—then grew Neo Financial to a $1B valuation. | Jeff Adamson, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
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