I've been starting companies since high school, from window cleaning to SaaS.
I've helped millions of people build their careers as CEO of VisualCV.com. We built the leading leading online resume and portfolio creation platform which has helped over 4 million people in dozens of countries worldwide make a career move.
In 2017, it was named 28th fastest growing Startup in Canada. I exited that business in 2020 and worked on a few projects - Holopod - which sold to Pulse.
My mission in life is to enable more entrepreneurship.
I believe everyone who wants to, should be able to own and grow a business.
That's why I'm building Durable.co today - to make owning a business easier than having a job.
Durable recently rolled out its free website builder, which uses generative AI to help other entrepreneurs create company websites.
James Clift, founder and CEO of Durable, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss how his company is turning people's' skills into businesses of their own. Clift also discusses the crossroads e-commerce is at, and the challenges Shopify has been facing.
The bottom line is it’s still way too hard to start a business, specifically a service-based company,