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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 ↗
A few quotes can’t cover everything Andrew said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Andrew ↗

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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