Anthony Lacavera

Serial Entrepreneur + Venture Capitalist. Founder, @Globalive. Host, Trailblaze. Founder & Past CEO, WIND Mobile. Co-founder & CEO, EverMe @myeverme

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Thank you, Dr. Jian-Kang Zhu, for a wide-ranging discussion on the research advancing the frontier of food and longevity science, and what it will take to move breakthrough science from the lab to meaningful, scalable impact.

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Today, I feel two things at once. Pride in what we've built, and impatience for what we still can.

Nearly a decade ago I wrote that Canada needed to get comfortable with failure. Not wearing failure as a badge, but failure as proof you swung at something real. I meant it then. I mean it more now.

What’s changed is the evidence. Canada is no longer just producing world-class research and watching it get commercialized elsewhere. From AI to quantum, we are starting to build the things and shape the future of technology.

The question for the next decade is not whether Canada has the talent or the ideas. We always did. It is whether we will back ourselves with real capital, real risk appetite, and real patience to let companies grow into global leaders. That is the Canada I want to build in, and the one I think we are closer to than we have ever been.

So my hope for Canada ahead is that we aim for gold, not bronze. Because it's good to be good, but great to be the best.

Happy Canada Day.

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I think a lot about what it takes to build deep tech in Canada. The patience it requires. The global competition you're up against. And the rare founders who just don't stop. @XanaduAI is one of those stories. And it's only getting started.

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We invested in @XanaduAI at its pre-seed round while the team was still at @creativedlab in Toronto, a lab where @globalive is a founding partner.

A Toronto-based team with a big idea: that photons, actual light could power the future of computing. That thesis just crossed $16 billion in market cap. Xanadu now trades on both Nasdaq and the TSX.

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Huge congratulations to Paradise Mobile for winning the #SpeedtestAward for Fastest Mobile Network at #MWC26. Two years in a row. Happy to be part of this market-leading team! @Speedtest @ParadisemobileG

[EverMe – AI-Powered Longevity App @myeverme]

What does my sleep score mean?
Why does my HRV change?
Is this normal, or should I care?

You’ve been asking the right questions.
We’re building the system where the answers finally connect and you start understanding your patterns.

Stay tuned. This is just the beginning.

[EverMe – AI-Powered Longevity App @myeverme]

Health information is everywhere.
Clarity is not.

EverMe exists to make sense of what actually matters.

We take complex, often conflicting longevity research and turn it into intelligence you can use.
Grounded in evidence. Shaped by expert consensus. Adapted to your goals and context.

So instead of guessing what applies to you,
you see what does.

[EverMe – AI-Powered Longevity App @myeverme]

Longevity isn’t about pushing harder forever.
It’s about knowing when to shift.

From performance
to function
to long-term health.

This thinking from @gibalam and other members of our Steering Committee informs
the habits, actionables, and principles that lay the foundations of why EverMe exists.

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The result?
A risk-averse financial system that kills ambition at the roots.

Canada doesn't have a financial services innovation shortage; it has a banking oligopoly challenge.

An innovative and competitive banking system is long overdue.

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Today, we officially finalized the acquisition of Wealth One Bank of Canada.

https://t.co/zARqOa33cC

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For decades, the Big Five have:
•⁠ ⁠Blocked new entrants through lobbying and market control
•⁠ ⁠Prioritized mortgage churn over innovation financing
•⁠ ⁠Treated challenger banks as threats, not collaborators

[The Logic @the_logic]

Anthony Lacavera wants to live forever.
https://t.co/gL4C6zUqFK

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People that are great at operating business are not necessarily great investors, and great investors are not necessarily great at operating businesses.

I know this from my own experience.

That’s why I agree that many VCs aren’t adding value to the companies they invest in.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Vinod Khosla: “70% of investors add negative value to a company”

When junior team members at Khosla Ventures ask Vinod if they can serve on portfolio company boards, Vinod responds:

“You haven’t earned the right to advise an entrepreneur. Just because you got an MBA and joined a venture firm doesn’t mean you’re qualified to advise an entrepreneur.”

Vinod believes one of the best ways to earn that right (but not the only way) is to build a large company yourself:

“Have you gone through how hard it is, how uncertain it is, how traumatic it is to go through?… If somebody has never dealt with this decision-making under ambiguity, they’re not qualified to help you… Whose advice to trust on what topic is the single hardest decision an entrepreneur makes. It’s also where the right investors can really help you.”

He gives the example of asking a marketing executive at IBM for marketing advice:

“They’ve never dealt with things where the market isn’t established… They’re not qualified to invent whole new markets.”

He also recalls a recent argument with a co-investor who wanted their healthcare portfolio company to hire a healthcare executive from an established company:

“They wanted this healthcare person who had never dealt with change beyond 2% a year, and I’m like, experience doesn’t matter. The rate of learning matters [for a role like this].”

Video source: @ycombinator

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What are you doing today to protect your brain later in life? 🧠

Brain health is a key part of longevity and unfortunately, the prevention interventions are not often discussed.

I asked Dr. Richard S. Isaacson about some of the top ways to protect and promote a healthy brain on this episode of Trailblaze.

The full Trailblaze episode is available at https://t.co/PW6M82ZlvC.

#longevity #brainhealth #alzheimers #brainhealthmatters #dimenticare #preventivemedicine #lifeengineering #brainscience

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What impact has @CBCDragon had on @ArleneDickinson?

You can watch or listen to our full conversation here: https://t.co/CMl5uddpb8 #DragonsDen

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My latest contribution to @Forbes is about relationships, the loneliness epidemic, and how we can foster authentic connections in the workplace.

You can read the full @ForbesBizCncl article released this week here: https://t.co/0u6ZynKKaY

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You can't learn from others if you're not able to genuinely listen and be humble.

#advice #entrepreneurship

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What's the best piece of advice you've received as an entrepreneur?

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@founding You can't learn from others if you're not able to genuinely listen and be humble.

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What's one skill that every founder should have?