Long-distance leaders: the way the go on to remote tasks are helping Canadian tech scale-ups hire executive talent
Forced from their offices because of the pandemic, some Canadian scale-ups can see that embracing work that is remote solves a longstanding skill issue when you look at the country’s tech sector: employing professionals who’ve grown promising firms into large organizations.
Companies that reach the $100-million mark that is recurring-revenue “a rarity” in Canada, stated Mike Murchison, CEO of Toronto-based Ada, a customer-service chatbot company. Therefore “the roster of people [with] that experience that one may pull from … is simply not a really deep list today.” Alternatively, businesses like their have found sales, marketing and engineering leaders in Silicon Valley or afield that is further and bringing them on remotely. (more…)