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    Die Mission eines Mannes, kanadische Startups zu Hause weiter aufzubauen. Wird es funktionieren?

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    1. TurnipAutomatic9233 on

      Honestly even if it doesn’t work out, kudos to him for trying. The easier option is to leave to USA (for tech startups at least) but yet he’s trying to improve things at home. Mad respect

    2. YBBOK-Kevin on

      One thing for sure is that Canada definitely has the talent, but I believe also one of our issues is taking the time to understand the „why do they leave?“. Brandon himself, to his credit, acknowledged that he left. The article mentions Taweel, who also left. I would say the answer is opportunity. The author touched on it, but a community as well as mentality is super important; „failing 10x and believing it will work on the 11th“. IMO, the Canadian culture is not that.

      We need to take more risks.

      From a personal experience, I went to the bank with a 3 year business plan asking for money. They turned me down and said they wanted proof of sales history. A bit later, an issue with my kitchen came up and I asked for help fixing; they gave me a 30k line of credit.

      Another experience buying software. I reached out to a Canadian company, no response. Urgent to keep going, I reached out to a US company. They responded immediately and within days I had everything signed and some new software. About 3 months later the Canadian company reached out with the line of „we are proud to be the only re-seller in Ontario of X product“… We can’t win with that kind of mentality.

      Canada has the talent that the world needs.

    3. CucumberWisdom on

      No, no it won’t. You just can’t compete with the US‘ favourable business environment.

    5. SurelyNotLikeThis on

      I’ve been working as a dev for American companies since I graduated, and I occasionally fly to SF for various onsite events twice a year or so. In the beginning, i was expecting to be one of the few Canadians there, but I soon found out Waterloo grads run Silicone Valley lol.

      Absolutely astonishing how much Canadian talents leave, and our companies and government back home are doing little to nothing to stop the brain drain. We have dog shit companies like Neo Financial that tries to offer senior devs 80k starting in 2026, and we wonder why all the highly educated Canadians leave for the states.

      The top tier companies in Canada still pay really well, but even then, I make 65% of what my American colleagues of the same level makes, and my company is one of the good ones.

    6. canDo4sure on

      If there is $10B of VC money in Canada and $1000B of VC money in the US annually, then yes over time you will move to the US.

      You can’t grow once you hit critical mass in Canada.

    7. Rachid90 on

      Canada doesn’t have a talent problem, it has a “we assume success happens somewhere else” problem.

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