BetaKit Most Ambitious
In entrepreneurship, ambition is the price of admission.
My favourite definition of an entrepreneur is someone willing to jump off a cliff and build an airplane on the way down. You can’t do that without ambition.
But ambition is often an uncomfortable topic for Canadians. We spend a lot of time discussing our collective willingness to ‘go for gold.’ Some have referred to it as “the 600-pound beaver in the room.”
I’m here to tell you the beaver isn’t real.
In BetaKit’s first-ever print issue, you’ll find all kinds of ambition: big and small, at home and abroad.
Canadians so ambitious that they’re reaching for the stars.
Canadians touching the future with their next breakthrough discovery.
Canadians trying to fix broken industries, or wrest them from entrenched control.
Canadians solving for the continued existence of humanity on planet Earth.
Canadians who care about craft, and Canadians who just want to make something cool.
Canadians supporting the next generation of ambitious entrepreneurs.
While pulling this together, BetaKit received more than 500 recommendations pointing us to ambitious Canadian organizations and individuals. In this issue, you’ll discover ambitions new to you, and see familiar ones in a new light. For every selection, we worked hard to explain their ambition and why it matters.
You might also know ambitious Canadians who are not in this issue. It’s encouraging to think that the ambitions of Canadian tech cannot be captured or contained in any single issue. That’s why we’re so excited that Most Ambitious will be an ongoing expression of the important work being done across the country.
If you have read through this issue and are hungry for more, head to BetaKit.com. Telling stories of ambitious Canadians is what we do every day.
Douglas Soltys
Editor-in-Chief
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