Join Mantle's Amar Varma for an incredible conversation with Farhan Thawar, a tech veteran who's been at the forefront of every major wave of innovation over the past three decades. From early days at Waterloo to leading engineering at Shopify, Farhan shares hard-won insights on building world-class products and teams.

Learn more about Mantle: withmantle.com

First-time founders: stop underpaying for top talent.

Adrian Camara learned this the hard way while building Athennian. When you're hiring a VP of Sales and one candidate costs 40-50% more than another, your instinct is to save the money.Adrian's take after raising $40M+ and scaling through COVID boom to tech winter:"The leverage they create over time, the quality of team they build around them—that incremental $100-200K you pay them amplifies into so much enterprise value."

Alex Norman, co-founder of TechTO and managing partner at N49P Ventures, joins Mantle Mondays to share his journey building one of the most vibrant startup communities while investing in 80+ early-stage companies. From the power of random collisions to what actually predicts founder success at pre-seed, Alex reveals why community must come first and why it's never been easier to start a company, but never harder to succeed.