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Adam Epstein on the TechTO stage

Adam Epstein

Co-Founder & CEO, Gigi

AdTechTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2015

Adam Epstein is co-founder and CEO of Gigi, a Toronto connected-TV advertising platform he started in 2023. He earlier co-founded Tab, a Toronto restaurant mobile-payments app acquired by Velocity Mobile in 2015, and later held roles at Perpetua and Paytm. He spoke at TechTO in 2015 on early-stage product strategy.

On the TechTO stage ×1

First seen on the TechTO stage in 2015. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Adam

In their words

Before you write that line of code, get design, get people touching your product.

TechTO, Mar 2015 · watch at 2:29

An MVP needs to have polish. You should have the smallest number of features possible to provide value.

TechTO, Mar 2015 · watch at 2:53

Incrementalism leads to irrelevance. You need to think of what's big — take this data, see the larger picture.

TechTO, Mar 2015 · watch at 6:18
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Quick answers

What is Adam Epstein known for?

Co-founding Tab, a Toronto restaurant mobile-payments app acquired by Velocity Mobile in 2015. He is now co-founder and CEO of Gigi, a connected-TV advertising platform.

What is Gigi?

A Toronto connected-TV advertising buying and measurement platform focused on streaming and Prime Video, which Adam Epstein co-founded in 2023.

What did he talk about at TechTO?

Product strategy for early-stage startups — building a polished MVP, cutting to a core feature set, and avoiding incremental improvements that lead to irrelevance.

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