Country Director and CEO @Coinbase Canada 🇨🇦 - tweets are my own
Toronto, Ontario
Joined April 2009
- Tweets312
- Following971
- Followers1.6K
- Likes778
Eric Richmond retweeted
New @defidecodedpod is out!
I've been looking forward to this conversation with @ddebow for a long time.
Dan is one of Canada's most prolific entrepreneurs, investors and thinkers, with a hand in some of the country's biggest tech success stories.
He's been called the "Forrest Gump" of Canadian tech because whenever something big happens, he seems to be in the room.
But I think he's more like Quincy Jones: bringing the right people together and helping them create something none could have built alone.
Dan co-founded Workbrain, Rypple (acquired by Salesforce) and Helpful (acquired by Shopify, where he spent six years).
He's also one of Canada's most active angel investors, with early cheques in more than 50 companies, including Wealthsimple, Clio, SkipTheDishes and Dominion Dynamics.
Today, as founder and chair of @buildcanada where he's helping shape the debate about Canada's economic future with a pro-growth agenda focused on backing builders and unlocking our country's potential.
And his latest venture, Debow Musical Instruments, brings together his talent for building businesses and his lifelong love of music. Its first product, Torch, is a new electronic instrument designed to make playing music more accessible and bring families together.
A fascinating, wide-ranging conversation.
Don't miss it!
Episode 253: Born to Build: Companies, Canada, and a New Musical Instrument with Serial Entrepreneur Daniel Debow
@alextapscott @ddebow @CMCC_Global
0:00 Introduction
3:12 Daniel as a “company producer”
4:30 What he looks for in founders: Ambitious Adventurers
6:08 Canada’s history of bold adventurers and naming after Leo Fender
8:20 How he became an entrepreneur at Workbrain
10:27 Six years scaling at Shopify
14:11 Shopify’s ecosystem and agentic commerce
16:12 His first instrument and his band, the Screenagers
20:16 Why most people quit music
23:00 Introducing Torch: a first song in seven minutes
26:19 The first prototype and how Torch makes sound
28:15 Building hardware vs. software
32:31 The market opportunity and the subscription model
37:54 Why applications build platforms
43:45 Why Daniel started Build Canada
49:32 Build Canada’s polls, surveys and growing influence
53:06 How AI will change the way people govern themselves
57:19 Growth, GDP and why Canada should aim for number one
1:00:28 Closing message: optimism and opportunity in Canada
Eric Richmond retweeted
Coinbase is safe and secure.
We’re actively monitoring the Binance situation, and have reached out to their team to offer our support.
This will be hard to enforce. Agent traffic looks a lot like a human's.
If banks want agents out, the alternative is open banking, but Canada's regime is read-only and still not live. Move faster.
RBC bars personal AI agents from accessing online banking, other digital properties theglobeandmail.com/business…
Eric Richmond retweeted
Today's news: Bitcoin.
Today was a big day for financial markets, here are the 8 headlines you need to know ↓
1. JPMorgan predicts Bitcoin will outperform U.S. stocks, gold, and real estate over the next 10 years.
2. Switzerland approves its first spot Bitcoin ETF for retail investors.
3. Michael Saylor says Bitcoin is "definitely" moving back into six figures.
4. SpaceX reports $14.58 billion in revenue for Q3 2026, beating expectations.
5. Anthropic reports $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, per the WSJ.
6. Grok bot hits 450,000 daily active users, +200% since September.
7. OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio to help scientists and AI agents work together on drug development.
8. CFTC Chair says super intelligence is poised to "transform" financial markets.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure to follow @CoinbasePredict.
Let’s go!!!
We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Toronto! 🇨🇦
In the coming days, you’ll begin seeing Waymo’s all-electric vehicles driving through Toronto’s streets as we lay the groundwork for our ride-hailing service.
Our goal is to begin serving riders in 2028.
Sign up for future updates: waymo.com/waymo-in-canada
Cool to see the @coinbase team bringing Deribit into the fold, with US + global derivatives in one regulated liquidity pool
Not yet available in Canada, but we’re focused on expanding access here, within Canada’s regulatory framework
Eric Richmond retweeted
We've been busy.
→ Deribit, the world's largest crypto options exchange, is now part of Coinbase
→ Soon, a first: US + global derivatives in one regulated liquidity pool
→ Next: options, spot margin + unified portfolios
And Coinbase Pro returns later this year.
Eric Richmond retweeted
.@ericrichy, CEO of @coinbase Canada, told us why he believes Canada can become a leader in crypto again.
Tokenized deposits are coming to 🇨🇦
I spoke to @BNNBloomberg on what that means
bnnbloomberg.ca/video/shows/…
Big news! More and more banks are moving funds onchain
We're bringing stablecoins into the banking system with @Citi.
That means instant stablecoin acceptance for institutions - all on bank-grade, regulated infrastructure.
The next step for stablecoins becoming everyday money.
Had a blast speaking at the Solana Summit in Toronto this week with @SuperteamCAN 🇨🇦
Canada has the ingredients to lead in digital assets on the global stage and needs builders, crypto platforms, traditional finance, founders and regulators to work together
Great morning at @nrthtechCA (formerly Elevate) today!
I joined @clabrow of @the_logic to talk about the future of Canadian crypto, from clearer regulations to what we’re building next at @coinbase, and why trust is the foundation for bringing all of this to Canadians.
NEW: Automated ridehailing could add $1.34B to Canada’s GDP and support 14,000+ jobs by 2050. Canada has the ingredients to compete. The next step is creating a clear path from AV pilots to commercial service across the country. progresschamber.org/research…
