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Evan McCann
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Evan McCann
@evansammccann
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Joined April 2022
- Skiing is going to change. Day passes are insane (Whistler is $300+ a day) and the crowds are getting bigger every year. Food prices have increased a lot as well. I think we see people ski less often and do bigger trips. Go to more remote ski hills with less crowds, do cat
- I’m raising a venture fund to back amazing Canadian founders as early as possible! 🇨🇦 After doing the podcast for the last two years I’ve been floored by the level of ambition and talent coming out of Canada. If you know of anyone who has raised a fund, currently raising a
- What Canadian private tech companies are doing >$100M in annual revenue? (All numbers below are public). 🇨🇦 Fullscript - on track to hit $1B next year PointClickCare - $670M Hopper - $586M 1Password - $250M Clio - above $200M Jobber - above $100M Jane App - $100M Vena - $100M
- Exciting times in Canadian tech. @speedrun and @ycombinator events in Toronto @535TORONTO and @newsystems_ @socraticainfo and nodes like @ascendcalgary @555mtl in Montreal @NovusOrg, V2, @meet_syndicate in Vancouver Lots of energy in the communities. Lots of people
- I feel like this should be a formal strategy by our government. Top founder talent moves to the US. Help them open a second office in Canada. Uber Toronto office did big things. Canadian talent gets to work at exciting growth companies with upside on equity and learning. Notgumloop is opening a Vancouver office to help slow the brain drain in Canada 🇨🇦 - exceptional Canadians shouldn’t have to leave home to pursue work at high growth AI startups - we started in Canada and want to reinvest our HQ is still in SF—but we're hiring. Apply today.
- This is a huge reason why we have a lack of building in this country and why I talk to founders weekly who are leaving or have left for the US. New things get instantly shit on versus people looking to understand, engage and support.Build Canada has published 14 policy ideas—all of them written by men. thelogic.co/news/build-can…
- Cold Capital (🥶🧢) is officially a go! I will be fundraising over the next few months. Looking to back 🇨🇦 founders at pre-seed so feel free to reach out or send folks my way. More info like website, memo, thesis, etc. will be coming ASAP.
- We need a complete rethink of “brain drain” in Canada. 🇨🇦 Every year, thousands of Canadians move south to the world’s most tech-driven, capital-rich economy. They earn great salaries, get equity, and train at iconic companies. Instead of lamenting their departure, we shouldending the TN visa would significantly solve brain drain
- Thinking of compiling a list of Canadian born founders, investors, execs, technologists that are in the US. I think people would be shocked at how deep the Canadian Mafia goes.
- Canadian co-founders at 1, 2, 10, 25, 27, 32, 40 and I’m probably missing some.
- I have absolutely zero time for this. But an absolute killer pod idea is to do the Acquired of Canada. 🇨🇦 Episodes on Brookfield, Jim Pattison Group, Saputo, Gildan, Shopify, RIM, Constellation, Canadian oil and gas, etc. It would go so hard. I wish I had time for it. But it
