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Andrew Mawer on the TechTO stage

Andrew Mawer

Founder, Proforo

MarketingTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2016

Andrew Mawer is the founder of Proforo, a Toronto conversion-marketing company he started in 2020. He earlier founded Bitmaker, a Toronto coding bootcamp, in 2012, bought out his co-founders in 2014, and sold it to General Assembly in 2016, staying on to run it as a subsidiary.

On the TechTO stage ×1

First seen on the TechTO stage in 2016. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Andrew

In their words

bit maker has been self sustainable since we started I'm pretty proud of that we never really needed to raise money other than to clean up a cap table

TechTO, Dec 2016 · watch at 1:01

so the question you need to ask yourself is who's gonna buy this if you have a good company that you've built you've probably already had inbound interest if you don't like the bidders try sourcing some yourself

TechTO, Dec 2016 · watch at 3:00

the next thing that a lot of people don't tell you about selling company is due diligence really really sucks it's an incredible amount of mind-numbing work

TechTO, Dec 2016 · watch at 3:57
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Quick answers

What is Andrew Mawer doing now?

He is the founder of Proforo, a Toronto conversion-marketing company he started in 2020.

What company did he speak for at TechTO?

Bitmaker, the Toronto coding bootcamp he co-founded in 2012 and sold to General Assembly in 2016, staying on to lead it as a subsidiary.

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