The co-founder of Platters, a Canadian tech firm that hit $100 million run-rate, reflects on surviving the dot-com bust, 2008 recession, and COVID-19. His wife was in Israel during the October 7 attacks and a cousin was taken hostage. He discusses how each crisis forced layoffs and rehiring, and why success doesn't mean the control people think it does.
My guest today is the co-founder of Platters, the Canadian tech company that grew to a $100 million run rate. I mean, entrepreneurship is about resilience. I've been through dot-com. I had to go through the '08 recession and letting people go and hiring back. Now I had another curveball, which was a pandemic. The easiest thing is to throw in the white towel. My wife landed in Israel October 7th, 11 and a half hours. We have no idea what's going on with him. I get word that our cousin, a gunburger, is taken hostage. My wife's doing her PhD at one of the universities here, and people are texting free, free Palestine. We're successful in so many different verticals, owning sports teams, banks, CEOs, tech companies, they think we control the world. We don't control the world. We just happen to be successful. But that's what you would want to tell people, even if we did control the world, right? We're successful. Unless I believe there's something special about the Jews, I would assume that there's a conspiracy. One of my CEOs is an F-16 fighter pilot. As everything in Iran started, he messaged me after 4 days. We're giving them hell. We're doing what we need to do for the safety of our country. Don't worry, I'm serving clients in between. What? When are you finding time to serve clients? What do you think are some of the lessons What are some lessons that entrepreneurs here can learn? For me, I tell entrepreneurs,
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