Tim Sherstyuk

Founder, Typescouts

HR TechOttawaOn TechTO stages since 2024

Tim Sherstyuk founded Typescouts, an Ottawa remote-hiring platform that places vetted international tech talent with startups. He co-founded GBatteries, the Ottawa fast-charging battery company that went through Y Combinator in winter 2014, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 energy list for 2020. He spoke at TechTO in December 2024.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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What happens between failure and success | Tim Sherstyuk of Typescouts

TechTO · December 2024

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In their words

if you're really excited about something and you know you're having a hard time but you're excited in your gut you kind of you know feel that you should probably keep going

TechTO, Dec 2024 · watch at 03:19 ↗

now with my current company you know totally bootstrapped profitable from day one it's like a relief every day you're like wow this is great

TechTO, Dec 2024 · watch at 04:24 ↗

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Around the web ×1

Article

GBatteries let you charge your car as quickly as visiting the pumpTechCrunch

2019

Quick answers

What is Tim Sherstyuk known for?

Co-founding GBatteries, an Ottawa company working on fast charging for lithium-ion batteries, and later founding the remote-hiring platform Typescouts.

What did he talk about at TechTO?

What actually happens in the stretch between failure and success, from his own founding experience. TechTO, December 2024.

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