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Canadian entrepreneur Anthony Lacavera, best-known for shaking up the country’s wireless industry by founding Wind Mobile, plans to take a new company public that’s focused on the latest technology craze: blockchain.

In an excerpt from his new book, Anthony Lacavera says that if Canadians don’t embrace competition, our way of life will be at stake

Tony Lacavera (CompE 9T7) has been at the forefront Canadian innovation and entrepreneurship since launching his first startup while still an undergraduate student in U of T Engineering.

Anthony Lacavera has started 12 businesses, six of which he has exited. His exits have ranged in value from the $6 million he got for one of his recent start-ups to the $1.3 billion he sold Wind Mobile for.

Anthony Lacavera is a Canadian entrepreneur from a small town in Ontario who disrupted the Canadian telecom industry by establishing Wind Mobile in 2008. In the almost ten years since, Lacavera has sold Wind Mobile to Shaw Communications, and has been an outspoken advocate for Canadian entrepreneurs. He recently released How We Can Win (and

“I’m not in the Elon Musk Armageddon camp; I think AI will work well,” he tells the crowd. “What I’m more concerned about is not the technology itself, but the pace of transition. Big companies in banking, energy or transportation, for example, are already being disrupted and they should be making this transition or they’ll

Today, the fourth industrial revolution is being fuelled by artificial intelligence (AI), which is disrupting and transforming almost every industry. Inevitably, the countries that invest most heavily in their successful domestic AI technology companies will rise in global presence. Canada is running in this race, but is not in first place.