dstein

Managing Partner @ Leaders Fund. Formerly VP @ co-founder of Rypple and Workbrain.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is a going to be a great week in Toronto!

https://t.co/crouAg9BRj

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

for anyone who hasn't been paying attention... C-22 is a terrible idea

C-22's architecture is most similar to laws in place in China, Russia, India and Vietnam

among allied democracies, the closest analog is Australia's TOLA Act (2018), which Australia is now amending due to the economic harm it caused

[dharmesh @dharmesh]

Congrats!

Thrilled to be on board as an indie investor.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

disappointing to see that there is not a single founder, startup CEO, tech entrepreneur, VC, or innovation-economy builder on this committee

this is an old-economy 🦕 list:

> 12 legacy-industry executives or industry association leaders (aluminum, auto parts, steel, rail, pipelines, mining, agri, dairy, forestry, manufacturing, chamber)
> 5 former politicians or current provincial premier
> 2 labour leaders
> 1 bank CEO
> 1 Indigenous business association CEO
> 1 cultural industry executive
> 1 academic / US-politics specialist

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Lindsay and I wrote a piece for the @nationalpost on the Montreal hospital (@HGJF_JGHF) building faster and cheaper than government, and why that builder mindset may be the future of healthcare and philanthropy.

https://t.co/OxRzXYn0sd

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

If bigger government meant better results, Canada would be crushing it.

We’re not.

So what are we actually optimizing for?

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Ridiculous idea

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Make Canada too business friendly to ignore. Especially for our own most capable.

[Drata @DrataHQ]

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[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

i’ve seen from inside government how challenging it can be to move from intention to progress

our latest @build_canada memo, signed by 40+ of canada's leading entrepreneurs, is a call to push beyond that discomfort, move fast, and focus on delivery

[Build Canada @build_canada]

https://t.co/DDZW9Fcbym

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

one more thought, in the spirit of pushing us to be bold.

if the government is actually serious about grocery prices, the hard call is dairy and eggs. supply management there amounts to state-backed price setting.

roughly 10–15% of grocery spend goes to dairy and eggs, more for lower-income households.

fix that and you lower prices. keep avoiding it and grocery costs stay politically managed, not market-based.

[Gideon Hayden @Gideonhayden]

@dstein and I were asked by the Canadian government to testify on the health of the startup ecosystem in Canada.

Last week we showed up to share our views. This quote sums up our message well:

"Just imagine if the vast majority of comp sci graduates from @Harvard and @MIT moved to Canada to start their companies. The US gov't would be doing everything in their power to reverse the trend"

@RaquelDancho @leadersfund

[dstein @dstein]

Potential is here. Let's look aggressively to harness it!

[daniel debow @ddebow]

“National pride is not enough to keep founders here. The only real solution is to make Canada a place where ambitious entrepreneurs believe staying is the best choice for their company and their future.”

wisdom from @dstein https://t.co/6J1UeRiVJE

[Canada Spends @canada_spends]

🚨 GC STRATEGIES AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT OUT TODAY

$64.5M in federal IT contracts went to a company that doesn’t do any IT work.

GCStrategies was a middleman—subcontracting all the actual work.

And 46% of the time, the gov’t couldn’t prove the work was even done.

[dstein @dstein]

Post election, while politicians are focused on "elbows up," Canadian tech needs to stay "heads down" to outperform in 2025.
Thoughts on key focus areas: https://t.co/VOsEpimMPU

[dstein @dstein]

After 20+ years co-founding and backing 20+ tech startups, I'm launching "Tales from the trenches," a column about company building.

We'll cover recent issues within our portfolio, the solution, and results realized.

Minimum jargon, maximum reality.

Launches Thurs. #Startups

[Ben Mulroney @BenMulroney]

The group Canadians for Free Enterprise have decided to release a series of statements in the next few days on why they are endorsing @PierrePoilievre for Prime Minister. They’ve asked me to share them. In this fifth and final piece, energy executives Adam Waterous and Sue Riddell Rose explain what Canada must do to develop its natural resources.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Liberals promise $130B in new spending and no timeline to balance the budget https://t.co/IluJhatJ4b

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Many Canadians don't realize their favorite media outlets receive significant government funding from the very politicians they're supposed to hold accountable.

When one candidate wants to cut this funding and support free speech, while the other wants to increase it and regulate what can be said, how can we expect truly impartial coverage?

Something to consider when consuming news.