TechTO

Canada's Most Connected Tech Community

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"AI has not eliminated the old playbook, but it has changed what is scarce. Speed and scale are abundant; judgment, trust, customer proximity, and uncomfortable work are not."

- @matthimel at #TogetherToronto

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@1Password was built here in Toronto. Tomorrow the person who scaled it is on our stage.

@jeffreyshiner sits down with @alexandernorman on going from 20 people to 1,400, at a $6.8 billion valuation.

Join us live: https://t.co/OcIJp4kTDn

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Full talk from Market Overview: Insurtech at TTW 2026 → https://t.co/km7FOSrqN3

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"If you're building in insurtech and it's not AI, don't bother raising. Not this year. Probably not next year either."

- Christian Lassonde, Founding Managing Partner at Impression Ventures - $150M+ AUM, early backer of Wealthsimple.

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@tksimpson Full conversation is up now: https://t.co/1Zn1kfG4AB

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In 2015 @tksimpson was running Wave from a broom closet, on the phone with Silicon Valley Bank, asking them not to pull the debt keeping the company alive.

Wave later sold for $537M. Here's what he told the room at TiEQuest 2026.

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@tksimpson He could have stayed on a beach after the exit. He started Courtyard instead.

"Once you kind of have that entrepreneurial itch, it really doesn't go away."

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@Tyler_Handley @MicheleRomanow @cbcdragon @getclearco @comfrt This is what happens in the room at TechTO. Next Together Toronto is July 6: https://t.co/EvoQUOsfPV

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Two founders who actually built and sold consumer brands got on stage at Tech Week and disagreed about the one thing every founder is told to build right now: community. Here's what they said instead. 🧵

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@Tyler_Handley @MicheleRomanow @cbcdragon @getclearco @comfrt The lesson under the argument: stop chasing the moat the internet tells you to chase. Find distribution. Let community show up on its own.

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Full talk from Beyond the Bubble at TTW 2026 → https://t.co/UX2qfgeUDc

@willhsu
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"The problem is the problem. You can't pivot the problem. Focus on solving something different - not building something better."

- Will Hsu, General Partner at Mucker Capital, backed Honey ($4B exit), ServiceTitan ($9B IPO), and AuditBoard ($3B) all outside Silicon Valley.