Three leadership lessons from Slack’s Stewart Butterfield
Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting down for an intimate fireside chat with Slack’s Stewart Butterfield as he was honoured with C100’s Icon of Canadian Entrepreneurship (ICE) award. This award is presented yearly to a Canadian who has played a historic role in technology and innovation, as well as demonstrated a commitment to giving […]
Expanding our bio/healthcare thesis
Our first investment in healthcare was five years ago in Figure 1, a platform for viewing and discussing real-world medical cases with healthcare professionals. This investment shaped our original thesis in the category. Figure 1 plays outside the healthcare care system; it’s permissionless innovation, like Yammer or Slack in the enterprise. As we wrote in our Digital […]
A few take-aways from the Augur prediction market
I’ve always thought that the concept of a decentralized prediction market like Augur or Gnosis is one of the most interesting and crypto-native ideas. Just imagine creating millions of small markets around any potential outcome in the world…from sports to elections, weather and stock prices. So it was great to see Augur go live a […]
Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley
The predominant narrative among Silicon Valley start-ups has been: don’t open a second office until you have reached 100+ employees. Yes, there are tremendous advantages when everybody works out of one headquarters. However, the pressure of sky-high housing costs, salaries and competition for suitable candidates is causing start-ups and investors to rethink their approach to […]
Growing our team: V1 is hiring an associate
VC is an apprenticeship industry. When I joined Version One five years ago, I would have never guessed that I would be where I am today. So much of who I am today has to do with the fact that Boris spent a ton of time teaching and mentoring me, despite our different locations. From […]