The president of e-commerce big Shopify Inc. needs Canada to handle an issue he calls “the 600-pound beaver within the room.”
Harley Finkelstein says that downside is an absence of ambition that is permeating the Canadian psyche and weighing down the nation’s tech sector.
He says the dearth of ambition has left Canadian corporations with a repute for being acquired whereas their U.S. opponents develop extra dominant by taking them over.
Finkelstein as an alternative needs Canadian corporations to concentrate on striving for extra moderately than settling for being acquired.
He additionally provides that he needs extra corporations to be headquartered in Canada moderately than the nation being handled like a department plant for greater organizations.
Finkelstein’s remarks got here in a dialog with astronaut Chris Hadfield through the opening evening of the Elevate expertise convention in Toronto, the place “Dragons’ Den” star Arlene Dickinson and Olympic champion breaker Phil Wizard additionally took the stage.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Oct. 1, 2024.
