Eliza Blank built The Sill into one of the most recognizable houseplant brands in the country. Now she's CEO of The Farmlink Project, a national nonprofit moving 150 million pounds of surplus produce a year from farms to families facing food insecurity. In this conversation, she breaks down how a grassroots COVID-era effort by college students became one of the most efficient food recovery operations in North America, why relationships (not trucks or warehouses) are the real currency of food recovery, and what's actually going wrong for American farmers right now.

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Founder and self-described "agentic power broker" Charles Cormier on why human relationships are the one moat AGI can't cross, how to use a podcast as your B2B funnel, and why comfort is death.

What if the next frontier isn't a metaphor, it's a market?

Venture capitalist Nectarios Economakis (Partner & Co-Founder, Amiral Ventures) just closed the first $40M of a new $75M fund built to keep Canada's best builders home. We start with the brain drain and end up at asteroid mining, and somehow it all connects.

In this episode we get into why "San Francisco is just a wrapper on Waterloo," why Canada is great at inventing the future (two of the three godfathers of AI, the transformer, the smartphone) but bad at commercializing it, and what it actually takes to build a generational tech company north of the border. Then we go off-planet: collapsing launch costs, compute in orbit, solar cost down 99.7% since 1970, and why investing in space is really about helping things back here on this pale blue planet.

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Nectarios Economakis is Partner & Co-Founder at Amiral Ventures, a founder-led Montréal VC firm backing the next generation of Canadian technology flagships. Previously co-founder of The PNR and the first business-development hire at Google Montréal.

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