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First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Arash ↗
In their words
Google released the update called Panda and wiped out all of our sites overnight. Our traffic went down from millions of visits to nothing within a matter of a few days.
We put all our eggs in one basket, which was Google.
We run this massive business with only 130 people in Vancouver. The amount of automation in place has been tremendous for us.
Quick answers
Who is Arash Fasihi?
A Vancouver serial entrepreneur. He founded Cymax Group in 2004 and later launched its Channel Gate platform, and is now founder and CEO of AI voice-agent startup Sayda.ai.
What is Cymax Group / Channel Gate?
Cymax Group is a Vancouver e-commerce company Fasihi founded as an online furniture retailer in 2004. It evolved into Channel Gate, a digital supply-chain and multichannel platform that helps retailers and manufacturers sell across Amazon, Walmart, Google and other channels.
What did he speak about at TechVancouver?
At TechVancouver in 2018 he told the story of the company's 13-year evolution — from a furniture e-tailer nearly wiped out by Google's Panda update to a diversified, automation-heavy supply-chain platform.