Six weeks. Real founders. No performative networking.

Ran a glucose-sensor company for six and a half years, Thiel Fellow, ex-investor at 1517 Fund. Now building cognitive robots at Lumen Research Labs. On egoless ambition — caring completely while holding the outcome loosely.

Co-founder and CEO of Clearline. Queen's alum, YC S22. Built and killed a 50,000-user LLM product, then bet the company on AI voice for car dealerships. On killing what works and selling into industries that have never bought AI.

Co-founder of Vidyard (YC '11), GP at Garage VC. On founder-market-channel fit and what 15 years of building compresses into.

Dropped out of Waterloo, moved to SF, went through YC, raised $4.5M. Building AI-native appraisal infrastructure for the mortgage industry.

Coached 1,000+ companies through Velocity and Communitech. Now back in the founder seat — zero lines of code written by hand, concept to alpha in four months.

Pebble's 4th employee. Co-founded Beeper, navigated the Apple fight. Now Head of Engineering at Automattic. On staying technical as you scale.

15 years into building MappedIn — indoor mapping infrastructure used in malls, airports, and campuses worldwide. On staying the course when the market takes time to catch up.

Building robotics for agriculture — thinning baby apples to improve yields. On the economics of farming, hardware constraints, and why the vision has to be bigger than the product.

Sold a previous company to Google. Sold Boltmade to Shopify. Both built in Waterloo. On craft, product thinking, and what it means to build something worth acquiring.