Randall Howard

Serial technology entrepreneur/investor focused on growth and change in startups and social ventures. born 313.2 ppm BlueSky:

[BetaKit @BetaKit]

“When deep tech companies fail, it’s often nothing to do with the technology”

Kyle Briggs of SAIL Initiative joined Adrenaline Fund's @randallh and @TandemLaunch's Émilie Boutros at NACO Summit to share what people get wrong about deep tech in Canada.

https://t.co/1czYChnEdH

[Randall Howard @randallh]

Huge #FAIL by @iocmedia that fails to distinguish Ruzzia as a terrorist state that illegally invades and terrorizes Ukraine. What a morally bankruptcy organization
@BBCSport @CBCNews @TheNewYorkTimes @globeandmail

[Charles D 🌎⚜️ @CDarwin3270]

@BBCSport As long as we fail to decisively condemn the atrocities of dictators like Putin, humanity will continue to live in terror over, and over, and over.

IOC should stop posting pretty pictures of peace dove; they are not contributing to peace. They are obscuring the horrors of war

[Charles D 🌎⚜️ @CDarwin3270]

@BBCSport As long as we fail to decisively condemn the atrocities of dictators like Putin, humanity will continue to live in terror over, and over, and over.

IOC should stop posting pretty pictures of peace dove; they are not contributing to peace. They are obscuring the horrors of war

[Jaanus K 🇪🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @jaanus]

@iocmedia IOC is deeply corrupted and poisoned by russia in bad faith

IOC keeps reliably doing its part of hiding, whitewashing and legitimizing russia’s imperialism, aggression, and crimes

[Angina Heartburn 🏴‍☠️ @AnginaBC]

@iocmedia It's truly unfortunate that the IOC is run by immoral sociopaths, with blatant double standards, incapable of making morally correct decisions

[slavarian 🇪🇺.🇩🇪🇭🇷.🇧🇦.🇺🇦.🇦🇹 @AndersonDa84036]

@iocmedia The IOC is not consistent and it let itself being influenced by Russia's position.

🇷🇺 uses its still existing leverage in the IOC to discriminate against 🇺🇦.

The empty words of solidarity by the IOC president Coventry are exposed.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: MSNBC just confirmed it.

The Epstein release included a spreadsheet of allegations involving Trump and other powerful figures.

Then it disappeared.

Not disproven. Not corrected. Removed.

I saved it before they could delete it

[Randall Howard @randallh]

So glad to see @FoxNews delivering news, not spin

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: Jessica Tarlov leaves Fox speechless after debunking the lies Trump and his regime have been spreading about the murder of Renee Good.

She brought receipts.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!

RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

[Charles Patrick @CharliePatrick]

@RpsAgainstTrump 🤔

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

I have legit never seen a political party brag about jacking up working people's taxes before!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 In just 24 hours:

– The CEO of X resigned.
– The Head of Infrastructure at xAI resigned.
– The VP of Software Engineering at Tesla resigned.

Three top lieutenants. Three exits. One empire wobbling.

You don’t lose leadership like this unless the ship is leaking and right now, Elon’s tech trifecta is looking more like a trifailure.

[Randall Howard @randallh]

Given the current fraught times, the focus on technology and the internet, really resonated with me. Keen to see an artistic exploration of surveillance capitalism, AI, and more

[Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators @MPfYCC]

Tristan Sauer selected 2025 Middlebrook Prize winner for "Soft Internet Theory confronts the threat artificial intelligence poses to cyberspace, calling attention to the handmade and human heartbeat that once gave the internet its revolutionary potential"
https://t.co/uG6W3EUwuK

[Randall Howard @randallh]

All this while our world gets hotter and hotter
Does Pollievre have no shame? Oh, why did o bother asking . .

[Nate Erskine-Smith @NateForOntario]

Policies need popular support to be sustained. I get that. And the carbon pricing + rebate system is now dead, killed by Conservatives in a dedicated campaign of lies. We failed to defend it successfully.

Singh already walked away from consumer carbon pricing months ago. And now all LPC leadership candidates are ready to do the same.

We should all be embarrassed that we've let shameless politics kill a system that cost-effectively reduces pollution and ensures the poorest are overwhelmingly made better off.

We forget too easily that Harper, Poilievre, Manning and politicians who otherwise express unending devotion to free markets all previously supported carbon pricing. Why? Because it's a market-based mechanism for reducing pollution, by internalizing a negative externality and driving innovation.

Too many too easily accept the lie that carbon pricing makes Canadians poorer. Yes, it could have been better designed to recycle revenues in a more targeted way to working class families rather than universal payments. But the rebate system clearly made the poorest in our society better off.

So what happens now?

1) Fighting climate change gets more expensive for the taxpayer. Consumer carbon pricing only represented around 10% of emission reductions in the overall plan, so it's thankfully not fatal. But alternative subsidy approaches to reach the same cuts to pollution will cost us more.

2) The poorest will now be worse off. The rebate made most families whole on a fiscal basis, but the poorest in our society were much better off. Without the price on pollution, there's no revenue for the rebates.

I'm not new to politics. I understand the need to win to implement good ideas. But it's shameful that we've gotten to this place, where good ideas must be sacrificed to sustained lies.

LPC leadership contestants need to step up with better ideas now: on affordability, productivity, inequality, democratic reform, and climate action.

[Randall Howard @randallh]

Great coverage of @GTAN_Angels Waterloo's national powerhouse angel group. Although I'm featured, a hugely talented team makes it all happen. And a shout out to @ArchangelFunds Adrenaline Fund with 37 co-investments alongside. @EvanCClark @ruthcasselman
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[Randall Howard @randallh]

A look back over 30 years ago, to the 1994 delegation to Ottawa of our local, Waterloo area, technology leaders. It's always interesting to see the roots of the area's current success way back when ...

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[Randall Howard @randallh]

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

Can we get 5,000 people to reply with "I stand with Ukraine?"🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[Randall Howard @randallh]

The very definition of a "Useful Idiot"
If you're not familiar, look it up

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's campaign panics over shocking new allegations leveled against him by Bob Woodward and lash out at the legendary Watergate reporter, calling him "truly demented and deranged man."

They're terrified...

According to Woodward's new book War, Trump secretly sent COVID-19 testing equipment to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in 2020 when the devices were still not widely available.

The book also cites an aide who alleges that Trump and Putin have spoken on the phone as many as six times since Trump the White House.

Woodword also states that in 2024 Trump ordered one of his aides to leave his office at Mar-a-Lago so that he could have a clandestine phone call with Putin.

Trump world is rushing to do damage control.

"None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome," said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung.

"Woodward is an angry, little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously," he continued. "President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book."

Cheung added that Woodward is a "a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally."

Clearly, the reporter has struck a nerve. The Department of Justice should launch an immediate investigation. If Trump is secretly selling our country out to our adversaries, we have a right to know.

Please retweet and ❤️ to demand a full investigation into these allegations — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKj4Hp

[Randall Howard @randallh]

Great kickoff to Global Ecosystem Summit by @ElevateTechCA @NorthGuide @startupgenome

[Randall Howard @randallh]

Great kickoff to Global Ecosystem Summit by @ElevateTechCA @NorthGuide @startupgenome