canadian-founders
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Rene Caissie and the value of starting over
He sold a software company in Canada, went back to school at Stanford, and started Medeloop. Along the way, Rene Caissie has come to place a particular value on the things a faster computer cannot hurry: experience, relationships, and trust.
Chris Rasmussen and the business of letting go
He built Doxim by getting close to the work. Growing it meant learning which parts to hand over - and which promises to keep.
Stephen Seibel and the long road to an easier car purchase
A one-way ticket to Halifax put Stephen Seibel on the road to building Clutch. Nearly a decade later, the founder is still working on the parts of car buying that a website alone cannot fix.
Alexander Peters and the arithmetic of wanting to play
He liked math. His cousins did not. A university project gave Alexander Peters and Rohan Mahimker a way to turn that small family difference into Prodigy Education.
Rohan Mahimker and the homework children choose
A stack of unwanted worksheets helped inspire Prodigy. Rohan Mahimker has spent the years since trying to make a math question feel like an invitation to keep playing.
Max Brodeur-Urbas Built the AI Company That Knows When Not to Use AI
Gumloop began as a three-day experiment for people who could not install AutoGPT. Its co-founder turned that failed-agent lesson into a more useful idea: let AI make the judgments, and let people keep hold of the map.
Harpaul Sambhi Is Building a Company That Does the Busywork
He sold his first startup to LinkedIn, studied the machinery of big-company product teams, and returned to the oldest nuisance in office life: work that people repeat because their software refuses to cooperate.
Gurshabd Varaich Is Teaching Finance AI to Show Its Work
A BitGo internship showed the Waterloo engineer how much financial work still lives between spreadsheets, source records and sign-offs. Now he and two classmates are building Definite around a stubborn idea: an AI-generated number is only useful when it arrives with receipts.