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Karen Lau on the TechWaterloo stage

Karen Lau

Co-founder, Furnishr

E-commerceTorontoOn TechWaterloo stages since 2017

Karen Lau co-founded Furnishr with Michael Van — a turn-key service that designs, delivers and assembles an entire home's furniture in a single day. She holds a computer science degree from the University of Toronto and an interior design designation earned in night school, and worked at TELUS and BlackBerry before founding it.

On the TechWaterloo stage ×1

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Karen Lau of Furnishr presents Leveraging the Global Workforce

TechWaterloo · December 2017
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In their words

anything that requires strategizing or integrating work streams will always be kept in the house

TechWaterloo, Dec 2017 · watch at 02:15 ↗
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Around the web ×1

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Furnishr's Karen Lau solved her own problem by starting a businessBetaKit
2019

Quick answers

What is Karen Lau known for?

Co-founding Furnishr, a Toronto platform that furnishes a whole home in one day using curated packages and its own delivery and assembly logistics.

What did Karen Lau speak about at TechWaterloo?

'Leveraging the Global Workforce' — a 2017 talk on the trade-offs between hiring globally and staying local.

What did Karen Lau do before Furnishr?

She was a technical program manager and M&A project manager at TELUS, and a software developer at BlackBerry.

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