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daniel debow
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daniel debow
@ddebow
CEO, Debow Musical Instruments ❤️🇨🇦 4x co-founder. Company producer. @Build_Canada
- Two years ago we planted 20,000,000 trees and now we want to remove 30,000,000 pounds of trash from the ocean with #TeamSeas! $1 = 1 less pound of trash in the ocean! teamseas.org
- I was just asked, in a fancy downtown Toronto office tower, “what you looking at, you fucking Jew?” That’s never happened to me before. It sucks. What is going on?
- My daughter (8) built a proximity sensor for her door. I choose to view this as her proclaiming her ❤️ for hacking, code, STEM, etc. There is no other possible interpretation right?! RIGHT? 😳😳😳
00:00 - This week, my wife’s grandfather told us that when he was 16 nazis tossed him in a truck and took him to a slave labor camp. For 4 years. He never saw his parents or siblings again. I’ll think of this when I think something is “hard” or “unfair”. Perspective matters.
- yes, we must shut down an internationally famous small business that is so awesome it attracts crowds. shame on those builders, how dare they be so good?Toronto’s NIMBYs live on another planet than the rest of us. This woman lives in Trinity-Bellwoods, one of the most popular neighbourhoods in the entire country specifically because of its vibrant small businesses and mixed urbanism. Most normal people can only dream of living
00:00 - There is no osmosis in entrepreneurship. You can’t hang around entrepreneurs, read about them, go to conferences, invest in them, listen to podcasts, etc. and just become one. You simply have to do it. Then you are one.
- The slow Canadian vaccine rollout, despite the highest spending in the G20, must rank as the greatest f-up in our history. What could be bigger?
- who here wants 🇨🇦 to be much more prosperous, productive, and globally competitive? 👋🏼
- BuildCanada.com is live. @build_canada helps entrepreneurs share their ideas for a bolder, richer, freer country.
- “Corporate Canada needs to learn from [Shopify] in every way.” - founder-led - product obsessed - meritocracy - global mindset - “say the thing” culture - non-zero sum thinking - long term bets - mission driven - fun, weird, quirky turns out a very different approachShopify is not only the most spectacular entrepreneurial Canadian success story in this century, its leaders Tobias Lütke & Kaz Nejatian have the backbone to stand up and fight for all entrepreneurs. Corporate Canada needs to learn from them in every way.
