Podcast appearances and mentions of daniel debow

“I feel like doing this is one of the greatest gifts of my life. Working with these people energizes me.” Joe Canavan, principal at Canavan Capital, is Canada's 2025 Angel of the Year. Recorded live at the NACO Summit in Ottawa, Canavan discusses his passion and enthusiasm for investing in tech after a career in finance, and what Canada should do to bolster its productivity and economic sovereignty. The BetaKit Podcast is presented by OVHcloud, the global cloud provider trusted by innovators worldwide. OVHcloud offers transparent, sovereign cloud solutions designed to help you build on your own terms—without vendor lock-in or hidden fees. With over 80 services available, you can build and scale your infrastructure confidently, knowing your data is hosted in Canada and supported by 44 data centres globally. Visit ovhcloud.com to get started with trusted cloud built for scale. Related links: Dragons' Den's Arlene Dickinson, Build Canada's Daniel Debow recognized as Nation Builders at 2025 NACO awards Why empowering Canadian high-growth companies is more critical than ever “Can we just write the cheque?”: angel investors encouraged to be bold amidst economic uncertainty at NACO Summit

How can Canadians unleash their competitive spirit and rediscover the drive to build bigger, faster, and smarter? Serial entrepreneur and tech investor Daniel Debow joins John and Sonia to tackle that question. They explore how decades of slow productivity growth have eroded Canada's economic position, and why there's new urgency to rewrite the country's playbook.Daniel explains how his passion for building ventures, from software startups acquired by Salesforce and Shopify, to the collaborative “Build Canada” initiative, reflects a broader need for bold experimentation in Canadian policy and business culture. He highlights how stronger digital frameworks, better data sharing in healthcare, and a more ambitious national narrative can help Canada punch above its weight in a rapidly changing global environment. John and Sonia underscore the power of collaboration and the importance of making tough policy choices to reimagine Canada's future. If you're ready to think bigger and help propel this country forward, don't miss this conversation on reclaiming the builder's spirit.

Welcome back for another edition of On The Line, The Line's latest podcast offering. Each week, On The Line will bring you an extended conversation with Matt Gurney or Jen Gerson and a guest — or guests! — that can speak with authority on whatever is in the news. And this week, in something of a break from the routine, we're here with good news. There are ways we can build this country and make it stronger. And a group of Canadians isn't waiting for a task force or government panel to do it. They're getting to work.The week's episode of On The Line is brought to you by the Motion Picture Association of Canada. For decades, Ottawa controlled what is “Canadian” and what isn't when it comes to series and movies available to Canadians. The rules are out of date and costing Canadians opportunities. It's time for Ottawa to focus on helping Canadian film and TV workers, and encourage efforts to showcase Canada. To learn more visit  https://www.mpa-canada.org/press/ottawas-streaming-regulations-will-hurt-canadian-consumers-and-workers/?utm_source=the_line&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=sa_mpac_choice&utm_content=canadianOur guest is Daniel Debow. He's a long-time Canadian tech entrepreneur. He gives his own abbreviated bio during the pod, so don't worry about the CV. What matters is that Daniel is part of a group of Canadians who are all volunteering their time to create policy papers on things Canada can do, quickly, to become more competitive. They're calling it Build Canada, and you can read about it at BuildCanada.com. Their focus is on growth. As Daniel notes, the difference between two-per-cent growth and four-per-cent isn't two per cent. It's 100 per cent! What are areas where Canada can make big changes fast, to become more prosperous in a fast-changing, dangerous world?This week's episode is also brought to you by the Métis Nation of Ontario. The Métis in what is now Ontario have always fought for their rights. In 2003, they took that fight to the Supreme Court and won. To learn more about their journey, go to https://www.ontariometisfacts.com/Daniel talks about how the experience of COVID-19 showed him what Canada can accomplish, but also how hard it is to get Canadians to see a threat coming. He shares some of what he and his fellow volunteers are focused on, and talks about whether tech is really right-wing. And he also talks about the surprising amount of hate mail he's been getting since the project was announced. Matt welcomes him to the club on that one.As always, like and subscribe and check out our main page at https://www.readtheline.ca And we'll see you next week for the next installment of On The Line.

Some tech and business leaders are calling for radical change in Canada's economy to protect against Trump's tariffs and other future threats. Matt Galloway talks to entrepreneur and former Shopify executive Daniel Debow, who is part of a new group called Build Canada; and Benjamin Bergen, president of the Council of Canadian Innovators.

Our guest today is Daniel Debow, a VP of Product for Demand at Shopify.  Daniel is a three-time founder and a seasoned M&A pro. Daniel oversaw the process of all three of his companies' acquisitions and has helped continue to grow them at scale inside larger corporations. His most recent startup, Helpful, was acquired by Shopify in 2019. Before that, he co-founded Rypple which was acquired by Salesforce in 2011. His first startup, Workbrain, was acquired by Infor in 2007.  In our conversation today, we focus on all the moving parts of running an M&A process as a startup . Daniel shares tactical advice on: What conditions founders should look out for at potential acquirers, as well as what established companies can do to create a more “founder-friendly” environment How to spot clear buying signals and weed out companies that are just “tire kicking” How to build meaningful relationships with executives of all types, not just corp dev teams. Techniques for including your investors in the M&A process, as well as messaging tips when opening up about the process to the wider team.  You can follow Daniel on Twitter at @ddebow. You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson. 

Daniel Debow is VP of Product at Shopify. Dan's energy is contagious. He is a talented founder, leader, and an incredible bass player. Dan shares his insights from decades of his career, and makes the connection creating music in a group, and creating space for expression in the workplace. Daniel was CEO and founder of Helpful, a startup backed by Bessemer Ventures that was acquired by Shopify in 2019. Daniel was co-founder of Rypple, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2011, where he was SVP, Emerging Technologies. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was VP Marketing & Corp Dev for Workbrain, which was acquired by Infor in 2007. Daniel is an early-stage investor in over 100 technology companies including North, Layer6, Spell, Wealthsimple, Ritual, GoInstant, SkipTheDishes, Clearbanc, Kindred, Borrowell, and Clio. In 2015 he was recognized as Canada's “Angel Investor of the Year”. Daniel holds a JD/MBA (Gold Medalist) from the University of Toronto, an LLM from Stanford University and a BA (Psych) from Western University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto and a Founding Partner of the Creative Destruction Lab, Root Down Studios, and 42 Developments.

In today's Shopify ecommerce podcast, my guest is Daniel Debow from Shopify. They recently launched a new product called Shopify Audiences.In recent years, regulatory and commercial privacy changes have affected how merchants can find new customers. Merchants were finding it hard to adapt to these changes while advertising costs (CPMs) increased as much as 300%. This was a problem Shopify needed to fix!Through Audiences they have created an opt-in merchant network to share data anonymously, and lower advertising costs. Merchants on the network are now able to build an audience list directly from their catalog - port it over in a privacy-safe way to ad platforms - and leverage machine learning to find new, high-intent customers for their products. Based on Shopify's aggregated conversion signals across shops, they find customers most likely to be interested in the product, lowering CPMs and ultimately increasing working capital for merchants. Ultimately, what can be measured can be improved. Shopify's unique view into conversion insights also helps to close the loop between the ad and the action - and provide accurate reporting that guides merchant decisions.The product is currently available to Shopify Plus merchants who use Shopify Payments and have shops in the US and Canada. We launched the product with Meta, and plan to open up to new platforms such as Pinterest and TikTok this year. Profitably GROW and SCALE your Shopify store with the resources mentioned in today's ecommerce podcast episode.Have any questions or comments about this episode? You can reach us at hello@ecommercefastlane.com or through any of our social channels. We love hearing from our listeners!Looking to profitably grow and scale revenue for your Shopify store? Click here eCommerceFastlane.com for the latest strategies. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Episode 01 of Season 3, Scott Stirrett sits down with Daniel Debow, VP, Product of Shopify, and a tremendous supporter of Venture for Canada. Daniel guides us through how he acquired and learned the skill of understanding both sides of an argument, and how this is a crucial mindset for entrepreneurs. The importance of making decisions that are best for you when starting a business, and not relying on money to make your choices. Lastly, is that there's always room to learn and that there are many resources out there that can help you figure things out, that the university doesn't have to do. If you're in need of a little confidence-boosting today, let Daniel preach to you on how you can become a successful entrepreneur.

Farhan Thawar (@fnthawar) , VP of Engineering @ Shopify shares the hiring framework he’s built where 15-minute interviews result in both faster placements AND better fits. You’ll hear how to find talent in non-traditional ways, what happens when you leverage creativity, and how speed in hiring is a massive competitive advantage. “The problem with interviews in general are they're very biased to either things you've done before or they're biased to some other signal...like school you went to company, you worked for, GPA in some cases, right? Google used to use that... And it excludes a wide swath of people. That's my number one problem with interviews. Not that good candidates can pass an interview. It's that non-traditional candidates will likely fail your interview” Farhan is currently VP, Engineering at Shopify via the acquisition of Helpful.com where he was co-founder and CTO. Previously he was the CTO, Mobile at Pivotal and VP, Engineering at Pivotal Labs via the acquisition of Xtreme Labs. He is an avid writer and speaker and was named one of Toronto's 25 most powerful people. Prior to Xtreme, Farhan held senior technical positions at Achievers, Microsoft, Celestica, and Trilogy. Farhan completed his MBA in Financial Engineering at Rotman and Computer Science/EE at Waterloo. Farhan is also an advisor at yCombinator and holds a board seat at Optiva (formerly Redknee). SHOWNOTES Farhan’s origin story being recruited to start Helpful.com by Daniel Debow. (1:28) Impact and examples of going above and beyond in recruiting using unusual ways to reach potential candidates. (8:30) Using speed as a competitive advantage, especially when you’re small. (12:44) How to prevent speed from backfiring by thinking about decisions as “one-way” or “two-way doors.” (14:36) Critical structures to best assess candidate fit. (15:17) How Farhan starts from first principles to leverage creativity in recruiting. (20:38) Farhan’s MOST IMPORTANT indicator of performance, and how to uncover it in an interview. (25:49) Results of speed in the hiring process - 15 min interview (31:36) How the 15 min interview works. (33:47) What’s different in hiring an engineering leader. (35:41) How to increase your pool of potential candidates through “backward promotions,” interim titles, and recruiting people who haven’t “done it” before. (42:41) Examples of what happens when bias is removed in the interview process and people are given a shot. (48:03) Farhan’s most terrible leadership mistake & how to turn underperformers into extremely high performers in 30 days with Performance Improvement Plans (PIP’s). (49:36) Farhan’s most impactful leadership action: the power of personalization. (53:56) Join our community of software engineering leaders @ sfelc.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/engineeringleadership/message

In today's podcast, we are joined by Daniel Debow, the CEO, and co-founder of Helpful.com, a video messenger for professionals. Most recently, he was SVP, Emerging Technologies at Salesforce. Previously, Daniel was the co-founder and co-CEO of Rypple, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2011. Prior to Rypple, Daniel was on the founding team of Workbrain, which was acquired […]

Your enjoyment of Clue: The Musical, now running at Napa’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center, may be wholly dependent on two factors – 1.) Your familiarity with and affection for the classic board game upon which it is based and 2.) Your familiarity with and affection for the performing artists involved. Both of those will go a long way in getting you through the show which, though cast with top comedic talent, suffers from a weak script and unimaginative score. First produced in Baltimore in 1995, it opened off-Broadway in 1997 and closed after a scant 29 performances. Despite its lack of success, the show has become a staple of community theatre, no doubt playing off the goodwill and sense of nostalgia that many people have for childhood amusements. That goodwill is tested. It is, in essence, an evening of murder mystery dinner theatre, albeit without the dinner. You get fourteen songs instead. The show opens with Mr. Boddy (a jaunty Barry Martin) gleefully admitting to his eventual murder and facilitating the audience’s selection of perpetrator, location and weapon. Clues are revealed throughout the evening and audience members who wish to “play” are given clue sheets with which to deduce the answers to the mystery. There are apparently 216 possible solutions to the crime which no doubt created an interesting challenge for the cast. And what a cast it is that director Taylor Bartolucci has gathered. The suspects are of course Mrs. Peacock (Daniela Innocenti Beem), Professor Plum (Tim Setzer), Miss Scarlett (Danielle Debow), Colonel Mustard (Larry Williams), Mrs. White (Phillip Percy Williams), and Mr. Green (Michael Scott Wells). They’re joined by the aforementioned Mr. Boddy and a second-act detective (Heather Buck). It’s a shame that a cast this talented and who are proven laugh-getters aren’t given much with which to work. Not that they don’t try. What laughs there are in the script and songs (and there are a couple) are amplified by the terrific comedic skills of the cast. Beem’s cabaret experience pays off as Mrs. Peacock works the audience from her grand entrance to exit. Her big number, “Once a Widow”, may be the show’s musical highlight. Williams is fun as the festooned Colonel Mustard. Setzer’s constipated Professor Plum is almost over-shadowed by his pomegranate pants. Philip Percy Williams also works the audience – both vocally and physically - as Mrs. White but his choice of accent sometimes made his song lyrics unintelligible. Wells’ shady Mr. Green and Daniel Debow’s lounge lizard-ette Miss Scarlett play well off of (and with) each other. Credit should be given to Staci Arriaga for some creative choreography and for managing to make pretty effective use of the limited stage space. Musical Director Craig Burdette and his band did what they could with a lackluster score. The set/prop design (also by Bartolucci) and costuming (Liz Martin and Liesl Seitz Buchbinder) do evoke the original game elements. Clue: The Musical isn’t terrible - it couldn’t be with all the talent involved – but it isn’t very good either. The term “middling” comes to mind. People who attend expecting something like the 1985 cult film starring Tim Curry are likely to be disappointed. (Interestingly, there is a new non-musical theatrical adaptation of the film which just premiered last month.) So, if it’s not the cast and it’s not the directors and it’s not the designers at fault, who’s responsible for this theatrical misdemeanor? In the vernacular of the game: The writers. In the theater. With this script. Clue: The Musical plays Thursdays through Sundays through June 18 at Napa’s Lucky Penny Community Arts Center. For more information, go to luckypennynapa.com

In today's podcast we are speaking with Daniel Debow, Senior Vice President of Emerging Technologies at SalesForce.com. He's responsible for Salesforce Wear, the wearables initiative, which I imagine will become part of the Salesforce App Exchange at some point. We're excited to be speaking with Daniel, as he'll show us how he's applied the Lean […] The post Salesforce App Exchange, Lean, Wear Initiative: Interview with Daniel Debow appeared first on OpEx Learning Resources.

In today’s podcast we are speaking with Daniel Debow, Senior Vice President of Emerging Technologies at SalesForce.com. He’s responsible for Salesforce Wear, the wearables initiative, which I imagine will become part of the Salesforce App Exchange at some point. We’re excited to be speaking with Daniel, as he’ll show us how he’s applied the Lean […] The post Salesforce App Exchange, Lean, Wear Initiative: Interview with Daniel Debow appeared first on Shmula.

The work place and enivironment has changed rapidly over recent years and looks to continue to do so.  In this special Small Business Week episode, Steve discusses the changing nature of "work".  What does it mean for your Small Business?  Find out in this episode! Plus, Steve interviews Daniel Debow of Work.com, a Salesforce tool that helps people give feedback and collaborate in real time.

Steve delves into the topic of the changing nature of work; is the word employee on its way out the door? How has the Internet changed work, collaboration, and competition? Steve interviews Daniel Debow of Work.com, a Salesforce tool that helps people.

Gamification may be a new term to most people but for many members of the business community it means a new way to create value for their companies customers and employees among others. What exactly is gamification what is it not and how will it change the way we do business in the next few years? Knowledge at Wharton discussed these issues with professor Kevin Werbach; Rajat Paharia founder of Bunchball a tech company that enables businesses to implement gamification and Daniel Debow co-founder of Rypple a social performance management company. Werbach and colleague Dan Hunter recently organized a two-day conference on gamification titled ”For the Win: Serious Gamification.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Leaders Series: Daniel Debow, founder and co-CEO of Rypple.com talks about 'working better, together' using Rypple's unique social software. We also speak about the 'gamification of business' and what that trend means to today's business world. 

Oreo goes after Guinness Record for Facebook, the power of Placebo effect, Ripple's founder Daniel Debow makes waves at the work place, and more. Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane Guest: Daniel Debow Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/netnight We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.

Oreo goes after Guinness Record for Facebook, the power of Placebo effect, Ripple's founder Daniel Debow makes waves at the work place, and more. Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane Guest: Daniel Debow Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/netnight We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.