Paul Philp

Co-founder & CEO, Amity

SaaSTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2015

Paul Philp co-founded Amity in Toronto in 2012 with Yanick Dufresne, building customer success software that read account health and told SaaS teams what to do about it. He spoke with customer success staff at more than a thousand SaaS providers while the discipline was still forming. He took the TechTO stage in 2015 on the lessons of building it.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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Paul Philip of Amity presents Lessons Learned from Building Amity

TechTO · June 2015

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2015. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Paul ↗

In their words

you end up tweaking your pitch to the people who can't ever say yes

TechTO, Jun 2015 · watch at 01:24 ↗

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Quick answers

Who is Paul Philp?

Co-founder and CEO of Amity, the Toronto customer success software company he started in 2012 with Yanick Dufresne. He studied mathematics and computer science at McMaster University.

What did Paul Philp speak about at TechTO?

The lessons of building Amity, at a June 2015 TechTO held at TELUS House in Toronto.

Why is his name spelled two ways?

TechTO's 2015 video title reads 'Paul Philip'. His own accounts, linked from that same description, are paulphilp and @pphilp — Philp is the correct spelling.

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