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Alex Millar on the TechWaterloo stage

Alex Millar

Co-founder & CTO, GovAI

GovTechWaterlooOn TechWaterloo stages since 2017

Alex Millar is a Waterloo-region software engineer who co-founded Bonfire, the government-procurement SaaS company (Y Combinator W2015) that merged into GTY Technology in 2019, where he was CTO. Today he is co-founder and CTO of GovAI, building AI software for government. He spoke at TechWaterloo in 2017 on engineering your life.

On the TechWaterloo stage ×1

First seen on the TechWaterloo stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Alex

In their words

the world will let you work as hard as uh you want and it's really up to you and only you to engineer your uh life your processes and take control of your life otherwise uh you can get ground into it

TechWaterloo, Aug 2017 · watch at 1:05

at the end of the day, you make a list of the six most important things in your world to do tomorrow and then you just do them

TechWaterloo, Aug 2017 · watch at 2:23
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What is Alex Millar known for?

Co-founding Bonfire, a Waterloo-region government-procurement SaaS company that went through Y Combinator and merged into GTY Technology in 2019. He was its CTO.

What is Alex Millar doing now?

He is co-founder and CTO of GovAI, building AI software for government.

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