For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.