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Matei Olaru on the TechTO stage

Matei Olaru

Founder, Your AI Department

AITorontoOn TechTO stages since 2018

Matei Olaru founded Your AI Department, an AI consultancy, after five years as CEO of Lift & Co., the publicly traded Canadian cannabis media and data company he led from 2016 to 2020. A lawyer by training, he built CannSell, the cannabis retail certification program that became mandatory for Ontario retail staff.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO8:32

Matei Olaru of Lift & Co. presents Lessons Learned

TechTO · October 2018
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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2018. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Matei ↗

In their words

You want to solve the problems that are most costly to people.

TechTO, Oct 2018 · watch at 00:37 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Interview
Q&A with Lift Cannabis CEO Matei OlaruBCBusiness
2018

Quick answers

What was Matei Olaru's TechTO talk about?

His two best lessons from the previous two years running Lift & Co. — delivered in October 2018, the month Canada legalized recreational cannabis.

What was Lift & Co.?

A Canadian cannabis media, events and consumer-data company that went public, and where Olaru was CEO from 2016 to 2020. He set up CannSell there with MADD Canada; the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario approved it and it became the required training for Ontario cannabis retail.

What is Matei Olaru doing now?

Running Your AI Department, his AI consultancy.

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