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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.