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Podcast: The Hard Part with Evan McCann
Episode: Jim Estill from Danby Appliances
Description: Jim Estill is the CEO and President of Danby Appliances.
Jim's resume is impressive:
Founder of EMJ Data (acquired by SYNNEX)
Founding Board Member of BlackBerry
Angel in 150+ startups like Miovision, Clearpath Robotics (acquired by Rockwell Automation), PostRank (acquired by Google) and Well.ca
Founding member of Communitech
Order of Ontario and Order of Canada
Active philanthropist
Takeaways
Being a great board member, especially to high-growth companies.
Founding his first business in university.
What it was like being a Founding Board Member at BlackBerry and watching its meteoric rise.