Marie Cook

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🚀 Great news for all tech founders! We've extended the C100 Fellows application deadline to June 16th at midnight! 🎉 Don't miss this chance to join an incredible community and accelerate your startup. Apply now! 👉 tfaforms.com/5122909 #C100Fellows #CDNTech #StartupSuccess

Applications for our programs for early-stage founders and growth-stage companies building in Canada are OPEN! Help us spread the word by sharing the application link with the amazing Canadian founders and companies in your network! (link here: lnkd.in/dSn4Ryj8)

7 observations while reading the Google CEO email about Gemini: ⁃It gets off to a bad start with the use of “problematic” — a word used almost exclusively by political activists, corporate bureaucracies, and the progressive left. At a time when Google is being accused of being all three, setting this tone isn’t helpful. ⁃But isn’t his audience just Google employees? No, this was clearly written with the expectation that it’d be made public. Probably vetted by a dozen people. The description of Gemini as “formerly Bard” and marketing taglines sprinkled throughout are more clues that this was meant to be public. ⁃So why was Gemini problematic? Because its “responses have offended our users and shown bias.” This is stunning. It’s totally divorced from the real problem and what people were actually mad about. Google focusing on not offending people instead of factual accuracy was what CAUSED the problem in the first place. ⁃Then he promises to “address these issues,” but syntactically, “these issues” refer back to people being offended, not the actual problems. Vague language like this is meant to avoid accountability and dance around the real problem. ⁃This email was clearly written by a committee. If you boil down the second paragraph, it basically says: we’re working to fix it, and we’re already fixing it, and nobody’s perfect but we’ll keep at it, and also we’ll review what happened and we’ll fix it. Frankenstein paragraph. ⁃“We’ll be driving a clear set of actions” is the opposite of clear. How do you “drive” a set of actions, and why does the list of actions include “recommendations”? Again, more word soup presumably designed to make the reader too tired and confused to be angry anymore. ⁃The last paragraph of an email like this is usually used to rally the troops. This one went with: “we have an incredible springboard for the Al wave.” I’m sorry but this is cringe. Serious people in AI don’t speak like this. It’s out of touch to the end. Important note: emails like this are hard to pull off. Many people put in many hours to write this, in an effort to fix a problem that wasn’t their fault. This isn’t a comms problem. The obfuscation, lack of clarity, and fundamental failure to grasp the problem are due to a failure of leadership. A poorly written email is just the means through which that failure is revealed.

Nominating Ken but not Barbie is literally the plot of the movie. #Oscars2024

At 48Hrs, our Growth Panel with @rnewal, Lara Cumberland and Michelle Gonzalez demystified the corporate side of strategic partnerships and M&A. Discussions like this help prepare our Fellows for the scale that's ahead from a position of power and strength. #C100Fellows

It was exciting to watch our #C100Fellows run the show on the first morning of 48Hrs, as they introduced their companies and shared their strategic goals. Followed by breakout sessions for the C100 community to provide support and advice as the Fellows shared their challenges

So many important talent-related discussions on the first afternoon of 48Hrs! Our Fellows came with questions, and our panel with Jeff Ryan, Joanna Lee Shevelenko, Mike Murchison and Afraj Gill delivered the answers.

Amazing first day at 48Hrs! A Fellows-only bike ride across Golden Gate Bridge, then dinner and a fireside chat about building category-defining companies in Canada. It’s incredible to watch the relationships developing between these ambitious founders! #C100Fellows

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🎉 Exciting news!!! 🎉 🙌 We're thrilled to announce the closing of Inovia Discovery Fund I in the order of US$25M to empower emerging managers. 👉 To learn more: inovia.vc/inovia-convers… #EarlyStage #Fundraising #EmergingManagers #VC #CompanyBuilders

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Global companies building in Canada 🇨🇦have advantages and each year our Fellowship provides the #C100Fellows with mentorship and leverage opps that will catapult their companies. We're so excited to introduce this year's cohort!

So to recap: The chief of staff, who received “packages” from developers and then sped up Greenbelt removals on their behalf — keeps his job. His boss, the Minister of housing — keeps his job. The Premier who approved the land swaps — keeps his job. #onpoli

@LaurenPelley Of the 30 people who registered, 2 codes. I’d be interested to learn why odds are so low - is it non-fans who will take advantage of Swifties obsession and re-sell?

*taps mic* Did anyone, ANYONE, in Toronto get beyond the wait list for the Eras tour?

Created a shortcut so I no longer have to look at the ugly X. The bluebird is back! Thanks @TechCrunch for the tip

If you care about #EmployeeEngagement you should try what @accenture is doing by personalizing internal communications axios.com/2023/08/03/acc… #internalcommunications

Canadians not really concerned about #JustinTrudeau separation news now that we know @taylorswift13 is coming to Toronto!! #TaylorSwiftErasTour

Excited to work with Mike Wessinger and Lara Cumberland!

On Canada Day 🇨🇦 we reflect on the state of Canadian tech and are determined to continue working for a more vibrant and ambitious ecosystem for entrepreneurs growing market-dominating companies