I'll Go First

Amanda Truscott’s company Rithmik Solutions uses AI to predict and detect faults in mining equipment, saving companies millions of dollars in downtime and repairs. And despite the fact that she’s CEO, it wasn’t always the job she pictured herself in.

Shyra Barberstock realized positive portrayals of her community and Indigenous businesses were lacking, so she launched Okwaho Network, a social-media platform connecting Indigenous entrepreneurs around the world.

How do we make the world more accessible? And how can that accessibility add value to a business? These aren't questions many CEOs ask, but for Maayan Ziv, who has muscular dystrophy, they're pivotal to the success of her business, AccessNow.

What happens when a physicist decides to start a company? As CEO of Quantum Benchmark, Joseph Emerson is melding the two very different worlds of science and business, working with companies like Google to make quantum computing a reality.

Finding out about her own fertility was taking way too long for Alyssa Atkins, so she started Lilia, a company that provides people with accessible and reliable at-home fertility testing.

John Paul Morgan is the founder and CTO of Morgan Solar, and an evangelist for solar power. While he does want to help stop climate change, his main concern is trying to make the world a fairer place.

From The Globe and Mail, I’ll Go First is back. Join tech entrepreneur and host Takara Small as she gets personal with Canadian innovators. Subscribe now.

Eva Lau is the co-founder of a venture capital firm. Cherry Rose Tan is a serial entrepreneur and executive coach. In this final episode, both women dive into the realities of being a founder and the heavy price it can exact on the the body and mind.

What once was a secret Facebook group has now grown into a multi-platform, online-bartering movement. In this episode, the CEO of popular trading platform Bunz talks about the future of bartering and Bunz' new cryptocurrency BTZ.

Meet the CEO and founder who wants to revolutionize health care by giving patients access to affordable, on-demand DNA results. In this episode, Paul talks about the secrets hiding in your DNA, his past career as a doctor and his love for comic books.

Mai Mavinkurve knows all about how artificial intelligence can make businesses more efficient. The founder and COO of Sightline Innovation talks about the misconceptions of AI, robots taking our jobs and how she juggles motherhood with entrepreneurship.

In an age of convenience, Ritual is revolutionizing the lunch rush. CEO Ray Reddy talks about the origins of his takeout app, coming to Canada as a teenager and looking at failure differently.

Sometimes the awkward travel selfies just won’t cut it. Enter Flytographer, the company that matches travellers to professional photographers in big destination cities. CEO Nicole Smith talks about how she turned her idea into an international business.

It's been a long time coming, but cannabis is officially legal in Canada. In this episode we hear from Bruce Linton – the man behind Canopy Growth.

Will Richman isn’t afraid to talk about burnout. The CEO of GrowthGenius gets candid about stress, family expectations and living with your coworkers.

Solon Angel, the founder of MindBridge Ai, opens up about his tumultuous childhood, his personal connection to fraud and his thoughts on Canada’s tech industry.

Huda Idrees has been building companies since she was 12-years-old in Saudi Arabia. Now, she's tackling Canada’s arcane health-care system with Dot Health. The CEO talks about immigrating to Canada, jumping out of planes and being a woman in tech.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple − it’s a complicated new world and Cole Diamond is in the middle of it. The CEO of digital currency trading platform Coinsquare shares his outlook on the market, and reveals how fatherhood changed him.

The robots are coming. In this episode, we hear from Geordie Rose, the founder of Sanctuary AI – an artificial intelligence company attempting to make machines that are indistinguishable from humans.

Introducing I'll Go First, a new podcast about the personal lives of Canadian innovators, from The Globe and Mail