Show Notes
Canada has a scaleup problem. We create entrepreneurs, but too many of them feel they need to leave to build world-class companies.
Fred Lalonde is one of the exceptions. He is the founder and CEO of Hopper, the Canadian travel-tech company that used data, prediction and fintech to help travellers book with more confidence.
Now Lalonde is bringing that same ambition to Deep Sky, a Canadian carbon removal company.
In this episode of Disruptors, recorded in front of a live audience, John Stackhouse speaks with Fred about what it takes to build and scale from Canada - and why the country needs more founders willing and able to do it here.
Fred is funny and blunt, but underneath it all is a builder's clarity: disruption is not something he manages. It is something he assumes.
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