PART 3: How to Create a Design Dream Team
In the final installment of his design series, RBCx’s Head of CX + Design Hector Crespo shares the company’s approach to design. Design is a necessity, not a luxury [Read more]
PART 2: The Ins and Outs of Great Product Design
RBCx Head of CX + Design Hector Crespo looks at how designers became one of the driving forces behind product creation and how they can create better products. [Read more]
RBCx Head of CX + Design: Designing for Maximum Impact: A three-part series
Hector Crespo on why design matters, how it’s evolved, and how his team uses it to propel ventures forward. The first in a three-part series on living, breathing, working [Read more]
Opinion: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: How Central Banks Have Been Thumbing The Scales For Tech, Part 4 Of 4
Sudden changes to one constituent part of a complex system will often have unforeseen consequences on seemingly unrelated parts of that same system. This is perhaps most evident in the [Read more]
Opinion: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Of Tigers And Paper Unicorns, Part 3 of 4
Innovations that disrupt complex systems often have unintended consequences. In the case of crossover investing – pioneered by the likes of Tiger Global, Coatue Management, Altimeter Capital and others – [Read more]
Opinion: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Canadian Tech’s Government Bottleneck, Part 2 of 4
Part 1 of this series highlighted Canada’s maturing tech and venture capital ecosystem and its record year in 2021. With the exception of the United States, Canada now leads its peer group [Read more]
Opinion: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: State Of Tech & VC, Part 1 of 4
2021 was an extraordinary year for tech, with record financings, record valuations, and record IPOs. 2021 was also my first full year leading RBCx’s venture strategy, and it was an [Read more]
Wattpad’s Jeanne Lam: Innovation, Diversity & Taking on Mickey Mouse
9 key takeaways from Ventures’ latest Ignite Series conversation, led by our very own Cheesan Chew It’s not every day you get to pick the brain of a master strategist [Read more]
If We’re Living in a Simulation, Ginkgo is Re-Writing the Code
A huge congratulations to Jason Kelly and the entire Ginkgo Bioworks team – announcing a merger with Soaring Eagle, the Harry Sloan-led SPAC, as part of a $15B deal. It’s a [Read more]