A consent crisis forced the Montreal startup to tear out its original engine. What followed was a sharper business built on owned products, creator distribution and the radical idea that the checkout page is part of sexual wellness.
The Montreal fintech discovered that a clean interface could not fix a mortgage process it did not control. So it became the lender, the servicer and the software supplier - then bought a 50-year-old institution to give the machine scale.

After 15 years building Talent.com from a Montreal startup into a global job-search platform, the founder who learned by moving fast has stepped away from the CEO seat - and toward San Francisco, AI and whatever comes next.