Christian. Husband. Father. VP of Corp Dev @TopHat
Toronto
Joined November 2009
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Wild story of a PE buyer negotiating in bad faith - reducing the enterprise value by almost 50% after signing!
I have written many articles over the years about crazy private equity machinations. Today’s installment, however, might be the craziest:
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🏅 Congratulations to our very own @shawnabbott who was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his important contribution to Alberta’s innovation ecosystem.
Thank you @intergenscaleup for nominating Shawn to receive this honour!✨
#Congrats
Excited to share that @TopHat has entered into an agreement to acquire @aktivlearn.
We’re super excited to build with Justin, Igor and the entire team to empower educators to make STEM more effective and engaging.
toph.at/h3k
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It’s my first day @github 🎉
Thrilled to be running open source developer programs with some fantastic folks: @FeyNudibranch @anishapindoria @martinwoodward
I already regret not changing my gh handle to @abbycabs… but with @\acabunoc maybe ppl will finally learn my last name
ALT Welcome to GitHub! New Hubber Class - May 24, 2022
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Two very different — but very influential — entitles in my life turn 20 today!
Happy birthday to both @creativecommons & #LordOfTheRings 🎉
If only everything could be OPEN with a simple “speak friend and enter”
Interesting to see @Facebook re-use the name/domain/twitter account/etc. @meta from a @ChanZuckerberg acquisition. Meta - a great search engine for scientific research - was founded in Toronto and acquired in 2017.
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I stopped reading business books a while ago, I'm reading history and biographies instead.
Here's 43 biographies that'll teach you way more than the concepts and strategies you're reading about right now.
The 3rd one is probably my favorite.
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Excited to announce our fourth acquisition in the last two years - @MortonPub. Just getting started on our mission to empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential! theglobeandmail.com/business…
Wow! Congrats @MattGoldenVP
Today, Golden Ventures celebrates its 10 yr anniversary and announces two new funds: Golden Ventures IV ($100M) and Golden Ventures Opps Fund ($20M) 💪🇨🇦🇺🇸 medium.com/golden-ventures/g…
Great insights on streaming wars churn from @ballmatthew and the under-studied effect of returned subscribers...
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I often hear people ripping on SRED. Matt’s overview of SRTC - SRED’s precursor - gives some great context of how SRED could be much worse...
If you were a 🇨🇦 kid in the 1980’s you watched “the Racoons” on @CBC
If you were starting a company in the 1980’s you used “Scientific Research Tax Credits”.
Come learn the story of the program before SR&ED, that gave us the Racoons and cost the 🇨🇦 Government over $3B
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Echo this completely. After working with Mike for almost 7 years @TopHat wouldn't be where it is without his vision, leadership and grit.
Building a successful company is more often than not simply the result of the sheer force of will of a founder - Mike is one of the those incredibly determined founders, always pushing forward, never giving up.
Amazing run, @MikeSilagadze (& thanks for having me along the ride)!
1/4 Excited to announce @TopHat's series E led by @Georgian_io. Over the last 7 years Georgian has been a critical partner in every stage of our growth & even more so to me as we've begun to execute on our acquisition strategy. betakit.com/georgian-doubles…
3/4 Also thrilled to welcome @joerohrlich as Top Hat's new CEO. We're just getting started and we're excited to work with Joe to achieve our shared mission of empowering educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
4/4 Startup life is never a straight line up and to the right ... but today is a great day at @TopHat.
Matt has been sharing some great history on Canadian Tech the last few weeks...this one gives some great insight into arguably Canada's best tech investor of the last 30 years.
I’m going to bet most of the Canadian Tech Ecosystem doesn’t know this story…
What is the most successful venture fund in Canadian history?
@Georgian_io Fund 1 ?
@OMERSVentures ?
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The news is out - we acquired Fountainhead Press; our 3rd acquisition in the last year. Scott and the FHP team have been incredible partners over the last 18 months. We’re excited to continue making learning more engaging in every classroom together. betakit.com/top-hat-continue…
