Shawn Gong
Monetization loops that fuel growth. 14 years of paywalls that work.
JUL 2026
Building things that compound
I'm CTO of VantEdge, building autonomous agents for the physical economy. I host Not A Minimum Viable Podcast, where I sit down with operators for the behind-the-scenes of how tech companies actually get built, scaled, and sold. Guinness World Record holder. Hip-hop nerd. Toronto.
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The Show.
Not A Minimum Viable Podcast
Conversations with people building things that compound.
Archit Anand
The $0-$1M enterprise sales playbook. Built three GTM engines from scratch.
JUN 2026
Phil Miller & Theo Ephraim
Open source as company-building strategy. On MIT-licensed distribution.
MAY 2026
Rowan
Why he shut down his AI startup with thousands of users. On when the numbers don't save you.
SEP 2025
Yacine
Is your ego killing your startup? A neuroscientist's ego-free approach.
AUG 2025
Ming
Student founder to Big Tech. Why this Waterloo grad chose both paths.
AUG 2025
OpenSesame
From zero to A16z backing. The speed-first philosophy behind OpenSesame.
JUL 2025
Anderson Yang
Being 20 no's away from a yes is worth it. On perseverance in supply chain.
JUL 2025
Hussam
The truth about building products at early-stage startups.
JUN 2025
Adib
From Iranian biology champion to AI genius at 20.
JUN 2025
Sid
What it's really like inside an AI unicorn during the ChatGPT explosion.
MAY 2025
Omar
Design engineering and balancing tech with creative pursuits.
MAY 2025
Flo
Waterloo BME dropout turned independent designer. On personal software as love language.
MAY 2025
Kelindi
Full-stack engineer prioritizing creativity over conventional tools. On user-controlled data layers.
APR 2025
Sergiy
Frontend developer and founding engineer at Actual. Ukraine to Toronto, community building along the way.
MAR 2025
Josh
Commerce student with consulting background now driving growth at Tempo Labs.
MAR 2025
Mitul
Photographer turned design engineer. On the creative journey through tech and community building in Toronto.
FEB 2025
The Company.
VantEdge
Autonomous agents for the physical economy. UofT AI/ML spinout with PhD and Prof.
Standouts.
Past work that keeps compounding.
I like to make things.
Now.
Currently: building autonomous agents for the physical economy at VantEdge. Recording Season 2 of Not A Minimum Viable Podcast — topically-focused conversations with operators I'd learn from anyway. Considering a Substack. Toronto.