The Growth Effect

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They make it look so easy, but we know better than that. The Growth Effect is a new podcast that delves into what it’s really like to launch and scale a business. Join host and Toronto-based founder Sarah Stockdale as she speaks to the leaders of some of Canada’s top growing companies to learn how they did it.

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The Growth Effect

Episodes (14)

May 10, 2021 The pizza pivot: How General Assembly transformed from a busy restaurant to an IPO
May 3, 2021 The untold origin story of Article, the rapidly-growing online furniture company
Apr 26, 2021 How Bobbie Racette is fixing the gig economy for marginalized workers with Virtual Gurus

The Growth Effect

May 10, 2021
26 minutes
32 MB

Ali Khan Lalani is the CEO of General Assembly. If you asked us pre-pandemic, we’d have told you that it’s a popular pizza restaurant in Toronto. Now, it’s reinventing itself as a successful food-tech company and recently secured $13-million in Series A funding with plans to go public. Many lockdowns in, we know the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the restaurant business. But Ali’s is a story of a successful pivot in an industry that needs some good news. He shares how he led his company from in-person dining to pizza subscription company — and their...

The Growth Effect

The pizza pivot: How General Assembly transformed from a busy restaurant to an IPO

Globe Content Studio/ HSBC

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