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"Toronto is already home to a number of successful venture-backed businesses, such as Shopify, KIK, ..." Fact check time. Shopify's headquarters is in Ottawa.
by clutchski 10y ago
"Toronto is already home to a number of successful venture-backed businesses, such as Shopify, KIK, ..."
Fact check time. Shopify's headquarters is in Ottawa. Kik is in Waterloo.
- api 10y agoIt's really too bad I Waterloo us not in Toronto. It would be like Stanford being the heart of SV or MIT being in Boston.
- shazow 10y agoWhile we're at it, a bunch of YC companies are headquartered or have an office there like Appcanary, Upverter, PagerDuty. Big tech companies have offices there too, like Mozilla and Google (mostly sales in Toronto for now, eng in Waterloo). Lots of small bootstrapped tech startups, consultancies, and agencies, too—like the famous Teehan+Lax agency that got bought by Facebook. This is just from the top of my head, I'd love to see a more comprehensive list.
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- kenrose 10y agoDon't know about KIK, but Shopify has a large development office in Toronto near King and Spadina.
- wahnfrieden 10y agoKik requires devs to be in Waterloo.
- raverbashing 10y agoShopify is also in Montreal
- gamekathu 10y agohow is the tech scene at Montreal?
- raverbashing 10y agoRegrettable Some say it's ok. There are some startups, but most of the environment seems to be "corporate oriented", and .NET is very popular
- gamekathu 10y agofuture? any new policies taking shape to attract more companies? I read somewhere that due to French clause in Quebec companies stay away from the city. Is it true?
- raverbashing 10y agoThere is some aspect of the French law that keeps companies far, yes, though there's a limit (the law doesn't apply to small companies in some aspects) https://www.thestar.com/business/small_business/leadership/2013/03/18/expanding-to-quebec--small-business--bill-101--french-language-l.html https://www.thestar.com/business/small_business/leadership/2...
- Apocryphon 10y agoThat's a shame. Given that Vancouver and Toronto both have higher rents and are less attractive cities than Montreal, I was hoping that it'd be heating up in terms of jobs.
- astrodust 10y agoA certain irony that the "language barrier" for most people will be C# and not French.
- anatoli 10y agoThey also just invested in a huge space (King Portland Centre) that won't be built until 2019.
- astrodust 10y agoHuge is putting it mildly. This is a pretty major campus.
- johan_larson 10y agoWaterloo is arguably part of greater Toronto. The local commuter service (Go Transit) reaches all the way to Kitchener-Waterloo. I say "arguably" because it's a two-hour train ride each way, which is pretty brutal.
- votr 10y agoIf Waterloo is part of Toronto, you may as well count in Hamilton, Oakville, and Milton as well. Hell, throw in Niagara Falls.
- kmanraj 10y agoThose cities are actually part of a geographic region called the Golden Horseshoe Area, which is more comparable to Census Statistical Areas in the US (like the SF Bay Area, Baltimore-Washington Area, and Chicagoland).
- astrodust 10y agoIt's called the "Greater Toronto Area" for a reason.
- AzzieElbab 10y agoWaterloo is over 100km away from Toronto
- psycr 10y agoCounter fact check: there's a massive Shopify office on Spadina
- kevincox 10y agoYes, they have a big office in Toronto but their main (and largest) office is on Ottawa.