Werner Biegler

B2B SaaS CEO & Founder (exited)
Masters Swimmer, Runner.

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

@vitddnv PDF

[tobi lutke @tobi]

What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil servants think is a good thing. I spent a lot of time explaining to civil servants in ottawa that its not good for our economy that American and Oversees branch offices can employ Canadians at half the cost to all the canadian companies around them due to these subsidies. We should not do them at all, they are toxic, at least in the tech sector.

It's never meat to be this way, but the situation that very often arises is: It's strictly worse inside of Canada to be a Canadian company compared to a company headquartered everywhere else.

This is a bad situation, because the fruits of the subsidized labor will accrue to the wealth of other countries and not Canada. It's tax payer money invested into locking up scarce high tech talent in jobs where they no longer contribute to the Canadian economy directly. Why

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

According to this article, for 2024, when you bought a 50/50 ticket in 2024, 50% went to the winner, 28% went to OEG and 20% went to a Charity. Oilers need to change their 50/50 brand to 50/20...

[Carrie Tait @CarrieTait]

Quite the scoop --> Oilers 50/50 raffle has paid $81M to company owned by hockey group over 4 years, documents reveal https://t.co/leCY51Ztm2 By @seeingread

[David Alter @davidalter]

Koné 🇨🇦

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

#AccessAlberta Original Stories: Werner Biegler, CEO & Co-Founder, Varafy (Acquired by Chegg) https://t.co/aYoWb96U2N

[Jobber @GetJobber]

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve raised $60M USD in funding led by @SummitPartners, with participation from existing investors @OMERSVentures and @VersionOneVC.

Read the full story by @SeanSilcoff via @globeandmail:
https://t.co/lKURtPQeLP

[Melissa L. A. @melissa__lerma]

31 years since their lives were taken.

14 beams of light for 14 bright, young minds whose dreams, goals, and potential were extinguished because they were women.

Remember. Listen. Rise. 💜

#MontrealMassacre
#December6
#GirlsInSTEM

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

My first attempt at Chicago deep dish pizza

[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

Today, we remember the sacrifices that our Veterans made so we can enjoy the freedoms we have today. Wear your Poppy as a pledge to never forget and at 11:00 am please pause to Remember. #RemembranceDay #CanadaRemembers #LestWeForget #GetYourPoppy

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

@Wpg_BlueBombers @sskroughriders

[Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health @CMOH_Alberta]

It is by helping one another that we will overcome #COVID19AB.

I would like to call on Albertans to share the acts of kindness that they have experienced in their community during this difficult time.

Please join me in using #AlbertaCares to spread some light.

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

Varafy is proud to be supporting #YEGTechCares with the company matching all employee donations. #YEG, we have your back! We will tackle COVID-19 and move on. Big shout out to @ChrisLaBossiere for leading this!

[Silvia Stringhini @silviast9]

1/ I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nothing was going to happen "here". The media in Europe are reassuring, politicians are reassuring, while there's little to be reassured of. #COVID19 #coronavirus

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

All of Italy is being placed on lockdown due to coronavirus https://t.co/vuk9xkfjsK via @Verge

[CNN @CNN]

Elon Musk on Facebook: "It's lame."

It's not the first time he has publicly criticized the social media platform, or Mark Zuckerberg. https://t.co/dizuzubXxT

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

I pray for the people of China. If there ever was a moment for the World to come together for humanity - not for politics - and help our brethren, it is now.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: World Health Organization declares coronavirus outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern." https://t.co/xP3DQ5PT0m

[Joanne Fedeyko @jfedeyko]

Hey Alberta startups .. Curious about our upcoming Silicon Valley Immersion, or how we can work together to support your connectivity to Silicon Valley? Please join us January 20th in #YEG or the 21st in #YYC.
https://t.co/fwtJi3mqp3

[Osmar Zaiane @ozaiane]

Deploying #AI and #MachineLearning #technologies is not as straight forward as some claim, and may take months, for many reasons including reproducibility, scalability, and buy-in from executives. https://t.co/H0P8VysHxw

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

Boarding plane to Phoenix to attend #OpenEd19 and escape the early onset of a nice Canadian winter. Yes, that's 9 F.

[Werner Biegler @wernerbiegler]

Excited to be attending #OpenEd19 and learning from and speaking with many #OER advocates. @GetVarafy is proud to be sponsoring such a key event to help make education more affordable.