​Join us for an intimate North House Fireside Chat featuring two of Vancouver’s most accomplished technology founders: Jason Smith, Founder of Klue, and Dennis Pilarinos, Founder of Unblocked.

​Together, Jason and Dennis have:

• ​built category-defining software companies,

• ​bootstrapped and raised C$150m+ of venture,

• ​had ventures acquired by Apple and TELUS,

• ​started 7 companies,

• ​hired and managed hundreds of employees,

• ​planted over 100,000 trees etc etc -

• ​and much more in their bios

​Expect an honest discussion on what founders need to know right now:

• ​how to identify real AI opportunities,

• ​hire exceptional talent,

• ​build high-performing teams,

• ​find product-market fit,

• ​scale revenue,

• ​compete against larger incumbents,

• ​and avoid common startup mistakes.

​See ya there. Spots limited.

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​BIOS:

​Jason Smith is a 5x tech entrepreneur and CEO and Cofounder of Klue, a 100+ person Competitive Enablement and Win-Loss platform serving 500+ global customers including Salesforce, Glean, Crowdstrike, Adobe and Google. Prior to Klue, Jason was President of Alida, a customer intelligence company he helped grow from startup to 500 person customer intelligence leader. He was Vice President of Electronic Arts, and cofounder of Columbus Group, a web applications pioneer acquired by TELUS (NYSE:TU).

​Dennis Pilarinos is the Founder & CEO of Unblocked, an AI-powered platform helping engineering teams understand the “why” behind their code. Before Unblocked, Dennis founded Buddybuild, which was acquired by Apple in 2018, where he became Director of Development Technologies. He has also held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, helping launch AWS Vancouver. Today, he’s one of Vancouver’s most respected voices on AI, developer tools, engineering culture, and building world-class software teams.