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Fazal Mahmood
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Fazal Mahmood
@fazal647
Co-founder & CEO @PhaseshiftT | Alumni (Physics) @UofT | Building a Computational Materials Engineering Co. | Views are my own.
Toronto, Ontario Katılım Haziran 2019
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Canada is one of the most educated nations in the world while spending only $1 for every $14 that the US government spends on education.
64% of Canadians aged 25-64 have a college or university degree compared to US’ 55%
As per this tweet, one university alone created $200B of value.
Where are you going to find that kind of ROI?
Canada is set-up best, both culturally and institutionally, to produce top class talent.
The brain drain problem is real because south of the border we have the largest economy who has ~ $300 - $350B in venture capital to throw at innovation. Compare that to Canada’s $8B - $11B in VC.
But the growth is there and more money is flowing into Canadian innovation, both at academic and at venture level. This is both, the capital flowing from within Canada and the capital flowing from the south of the border to north.
Don’t be mistaken, if you compare against the largest economy, you are sure to think Canada has failed. But look at the complete picture and compare against other developed nations, Canada is in a much stronger position and actually a success story.
toki@tokifyi
how many of them are in canada rn?
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This is how you are treated when you reach out cold-ish. If you have a good enough relationship with investors to begin with or a strong warm intro, I guarantee you these investors won’t ask you for all this up front.
Dhruv Agarwal@furst_fly
My Co founder reached out to a couple of "pre-seed" VCs in India. This was the response. and people wonder why India doesn't have a good startup ecosystem lol!
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Bro why is my feed filled with @rabois telling everyone “it is over”
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I think the inclusion of Senior Managers as a category in CEC is a good step in the right direction. It could cover executives of businesses that are a bit more established where it could be argued that the executive no longer controls the business as a founder in the early days of a startup does. But rather, since they might now report to a board and share responsibility and ownership with a leadership team, they are more like an employee. Hence the experience gained under such conditions could be argued for as eligible for CEC. This is of course speculative as we are yet to see any details and I am no expert on this either. Regardless, that still leaves a gap for early stage entrepreneurs that may hold the key to some Canada’s present problems.
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@fazal647 @BenArendi Ah I’m so sorry to hear this! Yes, many such stories unfortunately. We really need them to come up with a new SUV program for such applicants
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Queen @ninomelikidze breaking down 🇨🇦 immigration policy flaws.
Entrepreneurs have the answers to most societal problems imo
Nino M@ninomelikidze
Genuinely would’ve never thought that @StevePaolasini and I sitting down to write about how to correct Canada’s skilled immigration system would bring us here but looks like things got moving! Testified as a witness for the Committee on Citizenship and Immigration this morning
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@ninomelikidze @BenArendi Applied for SUV 3 years ago. Still don’t have a decision from IRCC. Raised millions, created jobs, grew the business. Our employees are now eligible for PR because they can claim work experience under CEC but I am still on a work permit. If this isn’t a broken system.
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@BenArendi Thank you for the shoutout! We’ll be going into the startup visa next. No stone must be left unturned at this point, let’s fix this system
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i’ve worked in applied AI and i’ve worked white collar roles in tech and other industries, and i’m telling you the constant “AI is taking everyone’s job” doomposting doesn’t reflect reality
yes, the smartest people you work with are using AI to automate parts of their workflow, but most companies and industries are largely untouched. even among the ones actively pursuing AI, a large share (~95% per MIT study) of pilots never reach full implementation. they stall in approvals, integration, risk reviews, legal, audits, and change management. all of that, coupled with the hard to ignore truth that most normies outside of tech still don’t trust or really even like AI, moves far slower than model capability, especially at scale across industries.
tech felt the shock first because that’s the environment these models naturally operate in. everywhere else you hit messy edge cases, outdated infrastructure, fragmented systems, and human approval as a blocker. the more realistic near term outcome is task compression, higher output expectations, and fewer entry-level openings.
also, this article is a thinly veiled ad. if you can read it and spot which parts were written by an LLM, you’re probably doing just fine
Matt Shumer@mattshumer_
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I’ve heard from a source that Carney was going to pull Waterloo grads out of SF
Y Combinator@ycombinator
After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we’ve decided to add Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation. Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations. ycombinator.com/blog/adding-ca…
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Either Deepinder is very smart and is using this very obviously outraging tactic to gain free publicity. In which case, he is misleading public intentionally.
Or Deepinder is not very smart and he himself is misled and is misleading public unintentionally.
There is no other scenario where he is right.
Deepinder Goyal@deepigoyal
Just came up with a more visual explanation of how gravity could interact with human aging across the gravitational spectrum. (Again, this is part of the hypothesis, not proven yet).
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We’ll never solve doomscrolling because attention is like entropy and it naturally tends to a more disordered state unless we apply energy to contain it. The internet’s evolution, from articles to feeds to infinite scroll, supports this argument. Stopping doomscrolling requires sustained effort and self-control, but that’s what people who suffer from it lack the most.
Jay Yang@Jayyanginspires
Whoever builds an actual durable solution to doomscrolling will be a multibillionaire.
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Toronto.
A real tech hub needs four things: talent, capital, easy setup, and access to big markets. Toronto has all four.
(1) Talent: Universities like Toronto and Waterloo produce excellent engineers and scientists. The city is also one of the most diverse in the world, so companies can build international teams from the start. Canada’s immigration system makes it easier to bring in skilled people than in the US.
(2) Capital: US investors are more willing to take risks on early ideas, and Toronto founders have direct access to them. Canadian investors are more cautious, but they are increasingly co-investing. By comparison, European and Asian investors usually prefer to wait until companies are more proven.
(3) Ease: It’s straightforward to incorporate. Pre-revenue taxes are light. The SR&ED program refunds part of your R&D spend, which makes early dollars go further.
(4) Access: Toronto is next door to the US, the largest tech market in the world. You can reach those customers while keeping Canadian costs.
(5) Proof: @Shopify, @cohere, @Wealthsimple, and others show you can build global companies here.
The main challenge has been later-stage funding, which pushes some founders to move south. But that is slowly improving.
Put it all together: Toronto gives founders top talent, access to bold US investors, supportive policies at home, and a short path to the US market. It’s one of the strongest places outside the US to build a tech company.
Craig Weiss@craigzLiszt
Where is the best tech hub outside of the US?
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If you rate Zakir Khan only on his humour then you don’t understand what he is trying to do. He is first and foremost a storyteller and while comedy is a part of it, there are a number of other emotions involved.
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This is what a male pick me looks like
om@serotoninshort
zakir khan is funny if you are 15 and never had a female interaction
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@termite_colony Don’t forget this guy Gabbar went on Shark Tank with an anonymous social media app which was already a rebrand and has now since then again rebranded and now pivoted to a dating app.
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Fazal Mahmood@fazal647
@GabbbarSingh @termite_colony Your infamous logic might be the reason why you rebranded for the second time and pivoted from an anonymous social network to a dating app? How’s that going though? Maybe it’s time you get a real job buddy and stop with the conspiracies and propaganda.
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PhD has wrecked my brain so much that I still have problems being firm on my views about topics that I am fairly knowledgeable about, let alone topics I know nothing about.
I have no idea how these people larp as medical experts one day to aviation experts the next.
Gabbar@GabbbarSingh
Pilot 1: Why did you cutoff? Pilot 2: I didn't. This is the control which the pilots have, it has to be pulled with effort to cut off the supply, When Pilot 1 asks why did he cutoff fuel supply. And the other answers he didn't, then clearly there wasn't a visible proof of the switches being manually activated. Coz there are just two people. Air crashes are unique. It's a dead pilot who cant defend himself vs a billion dollar Global entity with all the PR power.
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@GabbbarSingh @termite_colony Your infamous logic might be the reason why you rebranded for the second time and pivoted from an anonymous social network to a dating app? How’s that going though?
Maybe it’s time you get a real job buddy and stop with the conspiracies and propaganda.
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@termite_colony It’s basic logic processing. Maybe you will realise it when you get a real job.
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@termite_colony Simple. It’s because… those with little knowledge overestimate their skills due to the Dunning-Kruger effect, while the truly knowledgeable, like PhD holders, question themselves and recognize their limits.
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Non veg food is overrated,
Vegetarian food has a lot more variety and tastes better!!
a@comfortcafex
Unpopular food opinions that will get you in this position?
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Deceptively looks like variety, but it’s 90% carbs, oil, and sugar. Protein? Rare. Useful protein? Even rarer. It’s a delicious diet, but calling it superior is how you end up with a pot belly, skinny arms and legs, and with prediabetes at 30.
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