59: Ideation, Angel Investing, and the best bassist alive

“We set out to prove we were wrong”

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“We set out to prove we were wrong”

Dan Debow was CEO and a co-founder at Helpful.com, a startup backed by Bessemer Ventures that was acquired by Shopify in 2019. Prior to Helpful, Dan co-founded Rypple which was acquired by Salesforce. He is also a founding Partner of the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and an early investor in over 50 technology companies including Wealthsimple, Ritual, SkipTheDishes, and others.   In this EP, we get into Dan’s framework for startup ideation, how he met Paypal’s Peter Thiel, Dan’s philosophy around angel investing, and much more.   EP sponsor: https://unboundmerino.com/   Support the show here!:  https://glow.fm/e2/