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Ian MacKinnon on the TechVancouver stage

Ian MacKinnon

Co-founder & CTO, Later

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Ian MacKinnon co-founded Later, the Vancouver social-media scheduling tool that began as a hackathon project called Latergramme and rebranded in 2016, and was its chief technology officer. Later grew to about US$40M in annual revenue on roughly US$1.5M raised and was acquired by Mavrck in 2022. He studied computer science at Waterloo.

On the TechVancouver stage ×1

TECHVANCOUVER14:38

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TechVancouver · July 2016
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In their words

my name is Ian I'm the co-founder of later uh we were famously made at a hackathon and have been growing ever since

TechVancouver, Jul 2016 · watch at 0:05 ↗

deployments one button your job as a CTO is to make sure that one command can take your software and put it live on the internet

TechVancouver, Jul 2016 · watch at 3:52 ↗
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Around the web ×2

Article
The Vancouver Tech Scene's Quiet Wins: Later's Path to Nine-Figure SuccessTechcouver
2024
Podcast
Engineering Practices That Pay Off, with Later CTO Ian MacKinnonIt Shipped That Way
2023

Quick answers

What company did Ian MacKinnon co-found?

Later, the Vancouver social-media scheduling platform that started as a hackathon project called Latergramme and rebranded in 2016.

What happened to Later?

It grew to about US$40M in annual revenue on roughly US$1.5M raised and was acquired by Mavrck in 2022.

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