May 15, 2025

Name: May 15, 2025
Uploaded: 2025-05-16T04:23:55Z
Channel: Adrian Salamunovic
Description: Multi-speaker YouTube discussion (uploaded by Adrian Salamunovic) featuring founders including Adrian Salamunovic and Tara Bosch. The chunk includes…

16 May 2025

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Multi-speaker YouTube discussion (uploaded by Adrian Salamunovic) featuring founders including Adrian Salamunovic and Tara Bosch. The chunk includes announcement-style lines about major acquisitions (Adrian: a $1.6 billion exit to Shaw; Tara Bosch: a $360 million acquisition) and first-person founder reflections emphasizing extreme work ethic and identity alignment with one’s company (Adrian describing intense focus and long hours; another speaker describing being "intertwined" with their company).

We exited 18 months later to Shaw for 1.6 billion. Let's just say the returns were quite strong.
Tara Bosch, founder of SmartSuites, announces a blockbuster $360 million acquisition.
I'm going to forget everything else. I don't care about being cool. I don't care about having friends. I don't care about. I don't care about anything other than making this business successful. The people that talk about work, life, balance do not live a life that I want to live. Adrian Salv, exited founder and host of the Exit podcast.
I was so intertwined with the company that the company was me. It was my identity. I didn't exist outside the company.
We founded one of the biggest companies, the biggest company in Canada, built Shopify from the ground up. Can you tell us how you started Shopify? To me, my differential startup is 80 hours a week. If you're telling me you're doing a startup and you're not pouring it hard, soul, blood, sweat and tears poison, you are not in it to it.