John Baker: President and CEO of D2L

Speaking of Business with Goldy Hyder

English - October 16, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MB
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John Baker is President and CEO of D2L, the world-leading education software company based in Kitchener, Ontario.

John was a 22-year-old student at the University of Waterloo when he started D2L. Fast forward two decades and the technology he created is helping millions of customers around the world in schools, colleges, universities, government and business.

In this episode we’ll hear how a young man with a dream helped launch a learning revolution.

We’ll also talk about John’s biggest entrepreneurial regret – and the mistake that almost cost him the company.

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