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After 5 years at Pinterest, 8 years at Walmart, 7 years at eBay, 9 years at Bay Networks/SynOptics Communications (plus a sprinkle of interesting…
After 5 years at Pinterest, 8 years at Walmart, 7 years at eBay, 9 years at Bay Networks/SynOptics Communications (plus a sprinkle of interesting…
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I’m happy to share that I’m launching the The Media Dinner Club's first ever Canadian chapter in Toronto! 🇨🇦 The Media Dinner Club, founded by…
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Life is simple but not easy. The problem is we want life to be easy, which makes it complicated — @ShaneAParrish
Life is simple but not easy. The problem is we want life to be easy, which makes it complicated — @ShaneAParrish
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Turn a computer geek into a billionaire: Farhan Thawar
At 36-years-old, the VP of Engineering at Toronto tech firm Xtreme Labs Inc. is positively ancient by industry standards. Most of the rising stars in the app-development world are fresh out of college (U of T or Waterloo, for the most part), and don’t remember a time where the answer to most questions wasn’t as simple as “Google it.” It’s for these inter-preneurs that Thawar heads up Extreme University, a summer program where would-be…Turn a computer geek into a billionaire: Farhan Thawar
At 36-years-old, the VP of Engineering at Toronto tech firm Xtreme Labs Inc. is positively ancient by industry standards. Most of the rising stars in the app-development world are fresh out of college (U of T or Waterloo, for the most part), and don’t remember a time where the answer to most questions wasn’t as simple as “Google it.” It’s for these inter-preneurs that Thawar heads up Extreme University, a summer program where would-be Mark Zuckerbergs are given 12 weeks, free office space and as much as $20,000 to turn their app idea into a reality. ExtremeU students also benefit from regular consultation with Thawar, as well as weekly guest lectures from industry celebs whose names you wouldn’t recognize because, let’s face it, they’re computer geeks. The program can be extremely profitable: in 2009, ExtremeU helped launch UKEN Games, a start-up that now has over 400,000 iPhone users.
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