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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Albert ↗
In their words
We're a six-year-old company. We've been very, very lucky to be profitable since day one. We've got a hundred employees, we raised over 20 million dollars, we're hiring 50 more people.
The focus on culture at your company will have the greatest determining factor to your success.
Any company that focuses on great culture enables great people to do the best work. You also attract the best people as a result of that.
Quick answers
What is Albert Lai known for?
Being a Toronto serial entrepreneur. He co-founded Big Viking Games in 2011, built and sold analytics platform Kontagent and photo-sharing startup BubbleShare (to Kaboose/Disney), and now runs Parallelz, an app-distribution startup he founded in 2021.
What is Big Viking Games?
An HTML5 social- and mobile-games studio Albert Lai co-founded with Greg Thomson in 2011, profitable from day one, with offices in Toronto and London, Ontario.
What is Albert Lai's current company?
Parallelz, founded in 2021, which converts native mobile apps into web apps that can be shared by URL and distributed independently of the app stores.