On the TechWaterloo stage ×1
First seen on the TechWaterloo stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Robert ↗
In their words
I'm the co-founder of Ctrl V virtual reality arcade. It is exactly what it sounds like — it's an arcade where you go pay money and play virtual reality games.
An economic moat surrounds your business to reduce competitors, because guess what, capitalism works. Anywhere that there is profit, competitors will come to try to get a piece of that profit.
They were popping bottles of champagne till they got their financing, then they blew all this financing, and then they'd say, okay, now what?
Around the web ×2
Quick answers
What is Ctrl V?
A bricks-and-mortar virtual reality arcade franchise founded in Waterloo, Ontario in 2016 — pay-by-the-station VR for birthday parties, escape rooms and school groups.
How fast did it expand?
Within a year of opening it had locations open, under construction or in search across Waterloo, Hamilton, Cambridge, North York, Mississauga, Edmonton, Halifax, Red Deer, Calgary, Kelowna, Kamloops, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, plus New Jersey, Florida and Texas (TechWaterloo stage 2017-08-03).
What did he do before?
Over a decade in buy-side investment management in Toronto's financial sector, after an economics degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.