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The Founders Journey ft. Philippe Beaudoin of Waverly
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In their words
When I take a business, I do it with a scientist hat. I'm trying to optimize it, understand who the market is, measure it, make hypotheses, run experiments.
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Quick answers
What is Philippe Beaudoin doing now?
He is an affiliated researcher at LawZero, the AI safety organisation led by Yoshua Bengio, which he joined in 2025.
What was Waverly?
A Montreal content discovery platform he founded in 2020 with CTO Philippe Gagnon. It used natural language understanding to curate professional reading into user-defined themes called 'waves', and raised $1.25M CAD in pre-seed funding.
What is he known for before that?
Co-founding Element AI in Montreal in 2016, and five years at Google before it.
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