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Canada's #1 Business-Comedy Podcast (because we made up that category) arrives weekly with serious people pitching unserious business ideas. Every week host Shubh Sidhu invites guests to bring their business ideas and entrepreneurial dreams into the studio. It’s half workshop, half talk show, and half “wait, is this a good idea?”
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- 1 weeks ago59 min
S2E9: Father Figure & Guilt Trip w/ Adam Hoffman
Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Adam Hoffman, a Calgary finance veteran whose career has taken him from tax law and startups to private markets, and helping wealthy families figure out legacy and what to do with their money.Adam joins Shubh and Philippe to talk about discovering the stock market on dial-up internet, studying business and law, getting creative with tax planning, building Katal Energy with Craig Latimer, and eventually finding his way into private-market investing.Then Adam pitches three businesses.Father Figure: A GLP-1 lifestyle brand for dads who want the benefits of weight-loss medication without sacrificing their carefully cultivated dad bods. Complete with community, clothing, and pants that expand just a little after Thanksgiving. Shubh declares it one of the best business names we've ever had.Guilt Trip: A service that weaponizes the guilt only immigrant parents can deliver. Whether it's hiring a professional parent to motivate your children or designing an elaborate passive-aggressive vacation for your own parents, there's apparently an enormous market for making people feel like they're disappointing their families.And finally: A very dark, very expensive approach to end-of-life planning that somehow leads to volcanoes, private islands, pre-death funerals, and a surprisingly thoughtful conversation about telling people how much they mean to you while they're still alive. Working title: Fly Me Into a Volcano.Also discussed:Craig Latimer, lost AirPods, and the economics of paying for lunchThe Grindr PurposeMed acquisitionJewish grandmother guilt versus Indian mother guiltPhilippe's missed opportunity to become a professional ballet dancerWhy Shubh wants to be remembered as a "force of nature"Final scores: Father Figure earns 70 out of 75 salsas from Shubh, while Guilt Trip earns 70 from Philippe.Three business ideas. One very unusual career. And more discussion about dad bods, guilt, and mortality than anyone reasonably expected.Your Business is on the Line is a presentation of Indian Dad Media in association with Thursday Media. Brought to you in part from our friends at the New Network.Find more episodes at YBIOTL.ca.
- 2 weeks ago58 min
S2E8: VYB: Rent An Extrovert w/ Alyssa McMasters
Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Alyssa McMasters — tech sales leader, confidence coach, professional emcee, serial side-hustler, and possibly the most extroverted person we've ever met.Alyssa pitches Vyb (V-Y-B), a marketplace where you can hire an extrovert to make your event more fun. Awkward corporate conference? Boring wedding reception? Trade show booth nobody wants to visit? Just rent someone with enough personality to get the room going.It's basically Uber for extroverts. And somehow, it might be one of the most commercially viable business ideas we've ever heard.Along the way, we discover how Alyssa met her husband through a Christmas card, hear about her adventures crashing weddings in Lethbridge, learn why confidence has more to do with resilience than positive affirmations, and spend a considerable amount of time discussing Philippe's shortcomings as a conference co-host.Also discussed: hiring fake wedding guests, professional bridesmaids, the economics of being fun at parties, Philippe's failed career as a spy, and why Shubh thinks people should pay him just to show up.Final score: 75 out of 75 salsas for the most hilariously viable business idea in YBIOTL history.Find us at ybiotl.ca.
- 3 weeks ago1h 9m
S2E7: Dynamic Shelving & Timeline w/ Emmi Harari
Your Business is on the Line goes international...sort of...with our first American guest, Emmi Harari.Emmi is a longtime ZayZoon product marketer, former CPG operator, Ohio State Buckeye, transplanted Californian, and one of Shubh’s favourite people in the world.She brings two pitches.First: Dynamic Shelving — a reinvention of the grocery-store aisle where bulk liquids like laundry detergent, shampoo and lotion are dispensed into reusable containers from digitally controlled shelves. Less plastic, more flexibility for retailers, and no more pretending your $100 bottle of hand soap makes you a better person.Then: Timeline — social media without the algorithm. Chronological feeds. People you actually know. No endless creator content. No rage bait. No Explore page. Just the thing social media was supposedly for in the first place.Along the way, Emmi tells us how she met her husband during COVID, Philippe provides another baffling dating update, we learn he asked Chantal Kreviazuk if the CBC was her book publisher, and everyone agrees that society might improve if our phones became slightly less interesting.Also discussed: Procter & God, Irish Spring, German beer bottles, Baby DoorDash, topless tapas, and why Philippe may need to start taking Emmy’s dating advice.Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is coming for North America.As always, brought to you in part by our friends at the New Network, Canada's (in our opinion) number one boutique recruiting firm for scaling companies.
- Oct 11, 20261h 24m
Happy Thanksgiving! Our First Ever Best Of Episode!
Season 1: Some of Our Favourite MomentsCanada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast looks back at some of our favourite moments from Season 1.We've sat through an entire season of questionable pitches, unnecessary inventions, and business ideas that should never have made it past the group chat. Now we've collected some of our favourites in one episode.From rating grocery-store salsa and monetizing prayer to questionable bathroom innovations, animal talent agencies, and other solutions to problems nobody has, it's a collection of entrepreneurial nonsense.Join Shubh Sidhu, Philippe Burns, and some of our favourite guests as we revisit the pitches, arguments, and moments that made our first season memorable.No new pitches. No due diligence. Absolutely no lessons learned.Brought to you in part by our friends at the New Network.
- Oct 4, 202652 min
S2E6: Bootstraps w/ Keri Lee
Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Keri Lee of BlueMarvel AI, an Alberta industrial AI company helping operators and executives better manage continuous process facilities.Keri joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records to talk about growing up on a farm near Longview, picking rocks, baling hay, working in water and sanitation technology, getting pulled into machine learning before it was cool, joining AltaML and eventually helping build BlueMarvel.Then Keri pitches Bootstraps, a marketplace for wealthy families who want their kids to understand what a hard day’s work actually feels like.The guys dig into farm chores, cabin jobs, staining decks, knocking down wasp nests, moving dirt piles, TaskRabbit in reverse, Camp Callous, cattle drives, tree chopping, fence building, log driving, and the very real possibility that privileged kids might come home able to fix a light switch.Then it gets even bigger: an adult version for people who would rather learn how to chop wood, change oil, weld, build a fence, fix a cabin, lay foundation, install a window, or make furniture than take another pottery class.Also:Learn how BlueMarvel came out of AltaML and Spartan ControlsShubh tries to make “Brown Marvel” happenPhilippe’s rich-adjacent friend network comes under scrutinyThe group debates whether having a billionaire friend counts if they never invite you on a jetKeri’s dad is the spiritual head counsellor of BootstrapsPhilippe suggests the camp version and immediately improves the businessCamp Callous gets workshopped as a brandThe guys discover they would pay good money for adult trade-skill classesBoth the kids’ version and adult version receive perfect 75 salsa scoresBrought to you as always in part by The New Network. Need great people for your startup or scaleup? You need New Network.Plus shoutout to Center 9, our preferred partner for Microsoft 365, security, identity, Copilot adoption, AI compliance, and M&A migrations.
- Sep 27, 202650 min
S2E5: Couch.AI and Committee.AI w/ Ismail Khalil
Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Ismail Khalil, founder and CEO of ReadyAI, formerly ReadyCar, an Alberta-born company building AI-powered workflow tools for pharmacies, medical clinics, community hospitals and now vet clinics.Ish joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records after driving down from Edmonton at 6AM, matcha in hand, to talk about building ReadyAI from his mom’s basement, working with customers like Rexall, Shoppers and Neighborly, going from early Jobber sales hire to VC to founder, and why more Brown people should probably drink matcha.Then Ish opens up the future and immediately starts talking about walls.The guys dig into physical AI, buttonless elevators, restaurant screens, the end of phones, Star Trek, AI risk, sushi orders that never get remembered, Meta’s metaverse pivot, VR skepticism, and eventually Shubh’s practical contribution to the future of humanity: Couch.AI, an AI-powered couch that knows who you are, adjusts to your body, supports your activity, and maybe tells you to stop eating nachos.Then Ish brings it back to earth with Committee, a fintech idea inspired by South Asian and immigrant community savings circles, auntie networks, e-transfers, emergency funds, wedding money, blockchain, trust, and the very real problem of helping people access pooled capital without getting wrecked by bad actors or predatory loans.Also:Ish explains how ReadyAI is expanding from pharmacies and clinics into vetsShubh realizes his entire network is doctors, dentists and medical professionalsPhilippe learns about holdcosThe guys debate whether the world should become one giant phoneShubh becomes weirdly bullish on AI-powered furniturePhilippe makes it very clear he does not want his couch taking his blood pressureCommittee gets the kind of reaction Ish probably should have started withThe guys accidentally recreate every VC rejection line everIsh heads straight from the pod to Banff to sell to 500 pharmacistsBrought to you as always in part by The New Network. Need people? You need New Network.And shoutout to Center 9, our preferred partner for Microsoft 365, security, identity, Copilot adoption, AI compliance, and M&A migrations.
- Sep 20, 20261h 2m
S2E4: Atomic Bath Bomb & PopTop Plants w/Adam Thompson
Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Adam Thompson, founder of Friday Socks, a Calgary success story built on purposely mismatched socks.Adam joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records to talk about starting Friday Socks with $5,000 on a credit card, packing orders late at night in a one-bedroom condo, and building one of the coolest real businesses we’ve had on the show that now has socks in over 800 stores!!!Then Adam opens up his idea list and immediately starts dropping bombs...bath bombs that is!The guys dig into vitamin C bath bombs, Atomic Bath Bombs, Pop Top Plants, canned air, canned farts, fake “How’s My Driving?” complaint lines, pumpjack art, weight-loss belts, chef home-cooking content, five-gallon indoor gardens, and interactive finger-puppet books.Also:Friday Socks ships millions of pairs and is in roughly 800 storesAdam explains why mismatched socks are harder to design than people thinkPhilippe discovers more than he ever expected to know about sock constructionShubh tries to make everyone buy Friday Socks before supporting any other local companyAdam reveals he used to do stand-upThe guys debate whether every product should come in a canMultiple ideas receive perfect 75 salsa scores“Gardening as a Service” briefly becomes the business Shubh actually needsShubh and Pip socks become dangerously possibleBrought to you as always in part by The New Network.And shoutout to Center9, our preferred partner for Microsoft 365, security, identity, Copilot adoption, AI compliance, and M&A migrations.
- Sep 13, 20261h 2m
S2E3: The Vitch w/Brooke Hahn
Season Two, Episode Three of Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is here, and Brooke Hahn is back.Brooke, now CEO of Flockler, returns to the pod after delivering one of the earliest perfect pitches in YBIOTL history with BikeWash7000. Since then, Flockler got acquired, Brooke went on sabbatical, and somehow BikeWash7000 still has not been built. We are all disappointed.This time, Brooke joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records to pitch a new batch of ideas, including:The Vitch, a feminist answer to truck nutsA low-cost way to track kids’ lost water bottles, sweaters, and camp gearA legitimately useful personal life dashboard for insurance, benefits, passports, registrations, renewals, kids’ appointments, household admin, and all the adult responsibilities nobody warned us aboutAlso:Brooke finally receives her YBIOTL light bulb and immediately asks for merchShubh and Philippe debate trucker hats versus dad hatsRose, Bud, Thorn becomes a segment and then immediately turns into mostly thornsPhilippe gives another dating-life update, despite Shubh’s friendship hat trying to protect himBrooke explains why dating is terribleShubh complains about the beer selection at Tech Thursday LiveWe discuss corrupted audio, AI cleanup, Callaway Park, chimney sweeping, sauna insurance, passport chaos, and whether “the greatest gift is the present” came from Kung Fu PandaPlus, Shubh gives a deeply specific Flockler sales pitch and maybe invents “Thorns with Brooke Hahn” as a future Tech Thursday segment.Brought to you in part by our friends at The New Network and Center 9.This is a presentation of Indian Dad Media in association with Thursday Media.Follow us on YouTube and on Instagram. Follow the show:Website: ybiotl.caYouTube: @yourbusinessisonthelineInstagram: @yourbusinessisontheline
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