The truth behind bootstrapping a 'unicorn'

👋 Good morning, and welcome to (or welcome back to) VTJ’s Sunday Briefing: your weekly digest of the city’s innovation news, deals, insights, and more.

How do you figure out the next right move in your startup journey? The kind that moves you from being heads down in building your product to ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ?

Paul Teshima, a Canadian ‘unicorn’ founder listed as one of Canada’s top executives, shares his own journey and lessons for other founders. Read on for the full story.

That aside, it was a packed room at TTT Studios for our first AI demo night. Thank you to the founders who came out to demo and for the community for showing up to support — and, of course, Chris Hobbs for the beautiful space and hospitality.

Now onto today’s briefing. It’s 1,208 words: a four-minute read.

-Lisa