Douglas Tr0n Soltys
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word czar. two-guard. currently: @BetaKit previously: @MobileSyrup @BlackBerry and a bunch of dead sites you might remember fondly. "Wildly out of control."
Toronto, Canada
Joined March 2007
It's getting to the point where I might ask @CanadaKaz if he can sell me this pen. He continues to scoop up #CDNtech (and ex-@Shopify) talent.
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Former Shopify COO Kaz Nejatian continues to poach Canadian tech talent.
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It’s called friends, Ilya. Get in the group chat!
Someone should build an ai agent that talks to you about your favourite sports team.
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106lbs of grip strength today up from 104 last week, grip strength and Vo2 max are two of the best predictors of health and longevity we have right now. The flashing of 36.8 is signaling up 36.8 lbs from the last women that I had test their grip strength.
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I swear to god I played against InvalidToast
It's 2004 and you're jumping into Big Team Battle on Halo 2 with the boys
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Man 36 hours on iOS 26 and it’s so bad I wonder if Apple rolls back Liquid Glass in next year’s release. A complete misunderstanding of mobile UX.
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Can I put money on @tommytrxnh now?
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Spadina is also facing a lot of development pressure right now as the city continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. Understanding how to densify this corridor while maintaining it's feel & cultural value (especially the microretail of chinatown) is vital. (+) short thread 🧵
Spadina Avenue is one of my favorite streets in Toronto. It's decidedly urban, and it has a grandeur to it that you don't always find on our major streets.
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We must protect Mary at all costs.
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- she tried to build Vancouver's tech scene - ended up in SF building her own startup instead - the people trying to fix the ecosystem are the first ones it pushes out - Canada's best export is high-potential startups
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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2025: what a year it’s been! We're energized by the vision, ingenuity, and resilience of the founders and leaders we’re grateful to support. Their work is guiding a new era and unlocking what’s next. Across our venture and growth platform, we were proud to support visionary
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America's transition to oligarchy is so complete that obvious conflicts of interest are now "nothingburgers." Agree with Eric that the pressure to bootlick within the technorati is a new low. But what else could anyone expect at this point?
Newsflash: AI & crypto czar David Sacks and his buddies will do well if Trump stays friendly to artificial intelligence and crypto. That was the conclusion of a New York Times story on Sunday that declared, “Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His
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At the Startup TNT agri-food event at @oneeleven_111. Cool to see Canada’s most active early-stage investor expanding nationally.
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I am…. Not used to this feeling.
Breaking: Right-hander Dylan Cease and the Toronto Blue Jays are in agreement on a seven-year, $210 million contract, pending a physical, sources tell @JeffPassan. The defending American League champions get one of the best arms on the free agent market.
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for...
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NEW: Months after many supervised injection sites were shut down, Toronto is reporting an increase in “visible substance use on the street" and “open use of substances in public spaces.” #ToPoli #ONpoli
https://t.co/TG5CnauVRX
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Someone just asked me if I was “ready for Christmas.” It is the 24th of November. I'm not even ready for this afternoon.
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You can watch/listen to the full episode here:
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A chance pitch competition connection took Colare co-founder Nain Abdi from Waterloo to Silicon Valley. He explains what pulled his company south.
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Only one-third of “high-potential startups” created in 2024 are still headquartered in Canada in 2025. Half of those companies have fled to the US. The data is bad, but numbers don't tell the whole story. So I spoke with a founder who is living that story. Nain Abdi
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Silence isn’t submission. Sometimes it’s intelligence. Most people panic when the energy in a room shifts. They rush to talk. Explain. Smooth things over. That’s usually a mistake. When the vibe changes, words don’t restore control they feed the new narrative. Silence does
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