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Hard to Kill: How a 30-Person Ottawa Startup Took On the Defense Giants with Samuel Witherspoon

Hard to Kill: How a 30-Person Ottawa Startup Took On the Defense Giants with Samuel Witherspoon19 feb1 u 08 min

Samuel Witherspoon was a lawyer who walked away from a safe career to co-found a tech company. The first thing he built? A platform for selling divorces online. He was ashamed to tell people what he did for a living. So he sat in a boardroom with his co-founders and asked a dangerous question: what if we burned it all down and started over? That question launched a 12-year grind into one of the most guarded industries on Earth — Canadian defense intelligence. Someone told Sam that no one eve...