Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
In today's episode, we are looking back at a popular conversation from Toronto Tech Week.
Featuring Ron Spreeuwenberg, an experienced entrepreneur who built, scaled, and successfully exited a company. Ron shares his journey from selling firecrackers on the schoolyard to co-founding HiMama, a vertical SaaS company for the childcare space.
Ron discusses the deeply personal motivation behind becoming an entrepreneur, his methodical approach to validating his business idea and achieving product-market fit, and the challenges of scaling and maintaining culture in a growing organization. He also offers insights on the decision to exit the business, the importance of focus in a vertical market, and advice for founders.
Thank you to our podcast partners at StartWell for helping us make this content possible. You can learn more about their offerings at startwell.co
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In today's episode, we are looking back at a popular conversation from Toronto Tech Week.
Featuring Ron Spreeuwenberg, an experienced entrepreneur who built, scaled, and successfully exited a company. Ron shares his journey from selling firecrackers on the schoolyard to co-founding HiMama, a vertical SaaS company for the childcare space.
Ron discusses the deeply personal motivation behind becoming an entrepreneur, his methodical approach to validating his business idea and achieving product-market fit, and the challenges of scaling and maintaining culture in a growing organization. He also offers insights on the decision to exit the business, the importance of focus in a vertical market, and advice for founders.
Thank you to our podcast partners at StartWell for helping us make this content possible. You can learn more about their offerings at startwell.co
Subscribe to the Founder Journey series for more episodes like this dropping each month: open.spotify.com/show/5ztGmApbvduFqczYRD8IQm Watch more talks: youtube.com/c/TechTorontoOrg
Upcoming events: techto.org/events
Events calendar: luma.com/TechTO-Events
Newsletter — The read on Canadian tech: blog.techto.org
Membership: techto.org/memberships
