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Who is Johannes Lindenbaum?
A co-founder of 7shifts, the restaurant scheduling software company based in Saskatoon. The Globe and Mail reported in January 2019 that 7shifts was officially founded in 2014 by Jordan Boesch, Andrée Carpentier and Johannes Lindenbaum, and named him as its vice-president of engineering at the time. A September 2022 ThinkSask profile by Saskatchewan Trade and Invest described him as the company's director of architecture. No current role is published here because none could be verified from a first-party source.
How did he become a co-founder of 7shifts?
ThinkSask's 2022 profile says Boesch built the first version of the software to manage staff at his father's sandwich shops, then recruited two co-founders: Carpentier and his friend Lindenbaum. Innovation Saskatchewan's profiles say the three were accepted into the Boost VC accelerator in Silicon Valley in 2014. Lindenbaum told ThinkSask they all quit their jobs and moved to California for six months, raising $200,000 in seed funding there.
Why did 7shifts move to Saskatoon?
In the same ThinkSask profile, Lindenbaum said the founders took their seed money back to Saskatchewan and moved everything to Saskatoon because the city had a big tech market and better access to developers with a start-up mindset. He acknowledged the decision raised a few eyebrows.
What did he say about 7shifts during the pandemic?
Speaking to ThinkSask in 2022, Lindenbaum said the company suffered through the pandemic like others in the restaurant sector. He said it furloughed about a quarter of its staff, then brought them back, hired more people and added 10,000 new restaurant locations the previous year.