Faisal Abid - CTO and Co-Founder at Eirene Cremations

Faisal Abid is a serial entrepreneur and currently the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Eirene Cremations, a direct-to-consumer service that helps families plan affordable and high-quality cremation services. Faisal is also currently a Google Developer Expert, CTO at Bitstrapped.com and Instructor at Brainstation. Prior to founding Eirene Cremations, Faisal was the CTO at Zoom.ai where he led engineering including overseeing its machine learning infrastructure. Faisal has also held senior software engineering roles at health-tech platform, League, and e-reader platform Kobo Inc. (acquired by Rakuten).

On this episode, you will learn about:

How Faisal knew what he wanted to do with his career at the young age of 7
How a book called “The Mom Test” helps Faisal create better products
The “Death Tech” industry and key trends
How to think about money when making career decisions

Learn more about Eirene Cremations at https://eirene.ca/

Follow Faisal on Twitter at https://twitter.com/faisalabid