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Ray Cao on the TechTO stage

Ray Cao

Venture Partner, Touring Capital

Venture CapitalTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2014

Ray Cao is a venture partner at Touring Capital and co-founder of Agora Brands, a holding company acquiring profitable digitally native brands. He founded Exact Media in Toronto in 2013 — a marketplace that sold the empty space in e-commerce parcels to advertisers — and later worked at GoBolt.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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Ray Cao of Exact Media presents How to Focus on People

TechTO · November 2014
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In their words

when you make the wrong hire not only are you wasting your time but you're wasting the people on your team's time and time is often the thing that really will determine if your business will succeed or not

TechTO, Nov 2014 · watch at 05:29 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Interview
The Airbnb Of Marketing: Ray Cao Explains How Exact Media Is Trying To Reinvent Direct-MailForbes
2016

Quick answers

What does Ray Cao do now?

He is a venture partner at Touring Capital and co-founder of Agora Brands. He also curates Beanstalk, an annual founder and investor gathering.

What was Exact Media?

A Toronto company Cao founded in 2013 that inserted product samples and marketing into outgoing e-commerce parcels. By 2016 it had 29 staff across Toronto and Cincinnati and clients including Procter & Gamble and L'Oréal.

What did he speak about at TechTO?

How to focus on people — at the November 2014 TechTO held at Ryerson's DMZ, one of the community's earliest talks.

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