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Paul Burns on the TechTO stage

Paul Burns

CEO, SkipTheDishes

MarketplaceWinnipegOn TechTO stages since 2020

Paul Burns is CEO of SkipTheDishes, the Winnipeg food-delivery company, appointed in December 2023. He spent five years running Twitter Canada as managing director, which is where TechTO caught him in 2020 for a conversation with Carat CEO Alex Panousis about how far marketing was being pulled into digital.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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The further digitization of marketing | Paul Burns (Twitter)

TechTO · August 2020
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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2020. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Paul ↗

In their words

Twitter is sort of heartbeat and operating system for culture.

TechTO, Aug 2020 · watch at 08:32 ↗

All we have to decide is what to do with the time given us.

TechTO, Aug 2020 · watch at 10:33 ↗

Don't look back at this time and wish you have done something — look back on this moment and say man I wish I would have actually taken that risk or started that podcast or learned a language or developed a skill.

TechTO, Aug 2020 · watch at 10:49 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Interview
The power of humble leadership: Why Twitter Canada managing director Paul Burns says leading with humility and humanity drives world-changing organizationsCEOWORLD magazine
2022

Quick answers

What is Paul Burns doing now?

He is CEO of SkipTheDishes, the Winnipeg-based food delivery company, a role he took in December 2023 after five years at Twitter.

What did Paul Burns do at Twitter?

He was managing director of Twitter Canada from July 2018, overseeing the company's Canadian operations.

What did he speak about at TechTO?

The further digitisation of marketing, in a 2020 conversation with Alex Panousis, then CEO of Carat.

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