John Ruffolo

Founder & Managing Partner, Maverix Private Equity / Founder, OMERS Ventures / Co-Founder, Council of Canadian Innovators. Love entrepreneurship & innovation.

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

Hello? Is this thing on?? I am back and ready to roll...literally. I am proud to announce the launch of Maverix Private Equity - a dream come true. https://t.co/G9mkjTibtL

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

@rkienle13 I dont think you have much of a choice. Aside from the 2 (and who knows how many more) affairs and in particular, one with a direct report, the biggest concern is his involvement in potentially breaching US export laws. Really hard as a board member not to oust him.

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

Wow. This is fast if it’s true and likely much worse than disclosed. https://t.co/nUaBKEY0jE

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

@edzitron His time management skills are exceptional

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

Houston. We have a problem. https://t.co/Rp408uTtma

[Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR]

Catch 22: If Anthropic cures Autism, what happens to Anthropic?

[Vass Bednar @VassB]

corporate maplewashing

[Matt Cohen @mattybcohen]

🗓️ On May 18, 2020, the first @TankTalkPodcast episode went live.

Six and a half years and 350 episodes later, over a million listeners have tuned in.

What's even crazier is that none of this was built to be a podcast.

It started with @ripple_ventures mission: support our founders and build community. The Tank, our first office, was where that mission became something you could walk into and see with your own eyes.

Every few weeks, we'd make The Tank better by inviting someone worth learning from to share what they knew.

When COVID hit, I assumed it was all over. Everyone had to leave The Tank, but it turned out no one wanted to leave the talks behind.

So we took the interviews online and broadcast them to our founders so they could keep learning while stuck indoors.

Fast forward to today, a few milestones:
• Our new website is live at https://t.co/N5527AXfwN
• We just published our 350th episode
• We've passed 1M social media impressions

Most importantly, we've heard and shared the stories of first-time founders, founders with billion-dollar exits, world-class investors, and even a few celebrity athletes jumping into the startup arena.

We started Tank Talks to support founders and build community. 350 episodes later, we're just getting started.

There are a lot more founders to meet and a lot more rooms to fill.

Pull up a chair at https://t.co/N5527AXfwN. Whether you're a founder, investor, operator, student, or just curious, The Tank is always open.

[Culper @CulperResearch]

NEW: We are short Nvidia $NVDA. We believe Nvidia has a significant China problem. Please see our full report and disclosures now available on our website, link in bio.

[Maverix Private Equity @MaverixPe]

Canada pioneered medical isotopes, the radioactive materials used to diagnose and treat cancer. Our reactors still supply a big share of the world, but most of the companies that sell them are now foreign-owned. @chrislhodgson on why that matters and how to fix it 👇

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Free Newsletter: Jensen Huang's tryst with a spy running a front for the Chinese to buy GPUs is just the tip of the iceberg of an NVIDIA-backed smuggling ring that may amount to more than $43bn in illicit chip sales - and 20%+ of its FY26 revenue.
https://t.co/oInVQlOtpG

[timo @timo_rf]

JENSEN! THATS NOT WHAT WE MEANT BY CHINESE MODELS!!!!!!!

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

if you ever happen to find yourself shitting in your own car

because you are mad at elon musk about politics

consider for a moment you may be mentally ill

[Matt Cohen @mattybcohen]

Budget 2026 gave Canadian tech exactly what it asked for.

✅ Up to $15M CAD in capital gains exemptions per person, per business. Canada’s answer to U.S. QSBS.
✅ A rollover so exit proceeds can go into the next Canadian startup instead of heading south.
✅ Aimed squarely at IP-based companies built here.

A few caveats: it’s not law yet, it’s not retroactive, and unexercised options don’t count.

@ruffoloj and I break it all down on @TankTalkPodcast.

Take the win. Now it’s time to build 🤝

[TBC @TBC_on_X]

Dunder Mifflin preps for the Blue Tsunami 🌊

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

So since everyone is paying attention now, here is the latest version

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

@brendan_samek @ddebow @idiom_bytes @AndrewScheer It is in response to the needs of the Tech sector. It was intentionally targeted as such to compete against the QSBS in the US.

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

@JeremySzafron Exactly. As intended. It’s for the Tech sector.

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

Canada just took a real step toward risk-based capital formation. Federal Budget 2026 introduces the Canada Growth Incentive: a new exemption on up to $15M in capital gains from qualifying investments in Canadian companies, plus an enhanced small business rollover.

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

1.Founders keep more of the proceeds when they exit.
2.Early investors/employees have a stronger reason to back Cdn companies.
3.Recycling of capital gets easier. Successful founders and angels can reinvest in the next generation of companies and that's how ecosystems compound

[John Ruffolo @ruffoloj]

Early-stage investing, in particular, is a high-risk, long-duration bet. Most investments fail, and the few that win have to pay for the rest. When the upside is heavily taxed, capital goes elsewhere, and the U.S. has long had a similar incentive in QSBS.