Ben Walters

VP, Enterprise BD & Partnerships, Hopper

Food TechTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2019

Ben Walters co-founded Feedback, a Toronto food-waste app that used dynamic pricing to sell restaurants' surplus meals at a discount. He spoke at TechTO in January 2019 about staying focused while experimenting. The company, later Gravy, was acquired by travel app Hopper in September 2019, where Walters now works in enterprise business development.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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Ben Walters of Feedback presents Staying Focused while Maintaining a Culture of Experimentation

TechTO · January 2019

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In their words

Sometimes you sit in the audience and think the people up on stage are the most successful entrepreneurs who have gone through big raises and big exits, and I have done none of those things.

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What I want to talk about is what I call the paradox of focus within a startup.

TechTO, Jan 2019 · watch at 0:49 ↗

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Around the web ×2

Article

Hopper acquires dynamic restaurant pricing app GravyBetaKit

2019

Article

New app helps reduce food wasteThe CJN

2017

Quick answers

Who is Ben Walters?

Co-founder and CEO of Feedback, a Toronto food-waste app; after its dynamic-pricing technology (Gravy) was acquired by Hopper in 2019, he moved to Hopper.

What did he speak about at TechTO?

In January 2019 he talked about balancing focus with experimentation while building an early-stage startup.

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