Your Business Is On The Line

Season 1: Some of Our Favourite Moments Canada'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 monetiz...

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 learn...

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 m...

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 th...

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, Brook...

Canada's Number 1 Business Comedy Podcast continues with its Number 2 season.  Shubh and Philippe record live at Motiv studio , with special guest Chad Hayden. Chad shares his extremely Albertan origin story, from roughnecking on drilling rigs to petroleum engineering, living in Denver and Houston, and eventually building Galatea, a venture-backed oilfield logistics technology company. Then he get...

Brought to you in part by The New Network and Center9 . See the New Network for all your scale up recruiting needs and Center9 for Microsoft 365 transformation. Season two of Your Business is on the Line kicks off in a new Calgary studio at Red Mile Records with Shubh and co-host Philippe welcoming Shubh’s better half, Rita Soin. Before the pitches, they detour into Philippe’s confusing not-a-date...

In Episode 31 of Canada's Number 1 Business-Comedy Podcast, Shubh, Philippe, and returning producer Chaz record in person during Calgary Stampede, riffing on Chaz’s first Stampede visit, late-night food spots, and Philippe’s painful cowboy boots and nonstop events.  Philippe recaps Tech Thursday/House 831 Stampede programming, including a Tourism Calgary white-hatting ceremony, multiple dinners, a...

Episode 30 of Canada's favourite Business-Comedy podcast Your Business Is On the Line is here, and it's a "secret". We go back in time to an episode recorded with little preparation, where Shubh and Philippe banter about audio improvements, a hockey-stick tape prototype, chart-watching as the show hits Canada’s top 100 entrepreneurship podcasts. We've got overly long intros, plus Chaz shares a lif...

Episode 29 of Your Business Is On the Line features returning guest Sebastian Hiscock ( PureLend Co-Founder, creator of SalsaScore) as the hosts riff on SalsaScore, cowboy/Stampede energy, and bringing back “hit” guests and discuss PureLend’s rapid growth and hiring, including what it’s like working the top-of-funnel and the hard-to-test traits of resilience and doing the right thing under pressur...

Our first ever guest on YBIOTL was Sebastian Hiscock, founder of SalsaScore. Incredibly, SalsaScore is the second most impressive thing Seb has founded. This week, we welcome Sebastian's Co-Founder at Purelend Technologies , Lucas Scheer . After a highly successful career as one of Calgary's top executive scale-up operators, Lucas, along with Seb and Wayne, started what this podcast thinks is one...

Episode 27 of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Randy Warnaar , Founder and CEO of Fabstation . When he's not using augmented reality and AI to revolutionize steel fabrication and inspection, AND when he's not SURVIVING a plane crash, Randy is coming on Your Business Is On The Line to pitch two ideas. One will change Shubh's life, the other will change everyone's lives. Don'...

Shubh's friend Matt Morrison drops by for the latest episode of Canada's Number One Business Comedy Podcast. Matt is a YBIOTL superfan and a budding entrepreneur. He becomes the first ever guest to show up with prototypes of a physical product with his very manly lip chap line, MANCHAP. He also pitches an everything flavour Jam, a Shovelling A/R, Terrace Chants for North American sports and more....

Our friend Andrew Browne, fresh off starting his new firm, Inflection Venture Partners , joins Shubh and Philippe on Canada's Number One Business Comedy Podcast. Andrew uses his extensive experience building and advising companies to give himself the confidence to pitch several bold ideas. Find all of our episodes at https://ybiotl.ca/ and start following us on Instagram because it only took us 24...

Mark Le Dain makes his debut on Canada's Number 1 Business Comedy Podcast and it's generational. Imagine Victor Wembamyama's debut season, but in podcast form. Mark pitches so many ideas, and they are all incredible. He's even offered to fund two of the ideas himself if there's an aspiring entrepreneur or two out there. Also, should we start another Podcast specifically for future Dog listeners? W...

Friend of the program and #1 guest, by frequency, Tate Hackert returns with some big life updates and a pitch inspired by those life updates. Tune in for a very special emergency episode of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast.

Garth McAdam , Chaz and Shubh's friend and current General Counsel at ZayZoon, joins the guys for Episode 22 of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast. Garth pitches an idea that would help us really hone in on our tastes, and Shubh introduces a new segment called Be Legal Or Not which helps the YBIOTL team find possible compliance or legal problems with previous pitches. Also: - A Zither is...

Episode 21 of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is here...and we are putting the band back together baby!! Erstwhile full-time producer Chaz Somers returns to the show to pitch three great ideas, but it turns out as a painter and a great listener he might in fact be the best business idea.  Woke up this morning in a panic because you forgot to get something for Mother's Day? Well your wo...

Shubh's friend and Co-Founder of AwareGTM Shy Rahnama stops by for the 20th (can you believe we've done twenty of these??) episode of Canada's Number 1 Business-Comedy Podcast. Shy is locked and loaded with a series of great ideas. Plus: Shubh and Pip are both grumpy but for very different reasons Tasmanian accents Philippe is getting Clawdbots Shubh and Shy talk about their new business venture S...

Host note: this episode is a little spicier so maybe don’t let the kids listen lol. Nineteen episodes in to Canada's Number One Business-Comedy podcast we asked ourselves "Why have we not had a business person who is also a comedian on the program?" Well now we have. Abdul Aziz , from the top rated (actually) comedy podcast Spout Lore joins Pip and Shubh to talk about his background, how he got in...

Kelly Schmitt might be the most accomplished tech executive in Canada. Three C-level roles across three unicorns. She also happens to be the CEO of the Your Business Is On The Line Fan Club. She makes her debut appearance on Canada's Number One Business Comedy Podcast with a trio of unforgettable pitches. Buckle up and enjoy Episode 18 presented to you as always in part by the New Network , Canada...

We are LIVE for the very first time. Thanks to our partners at Tech Thursday for hosting us and to April Hicke of Toast and Tate Hackert at ZayZoon (yes he's back!). Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast gets into April's idea to make flying both more pleasant and more judgemental. Shoutout once again to the New Network (listen closely for Tate talking about ZayZoon's experience with them).

Canada's favourite business-comedy and hottest home grown entrepreneurship podcast delivers the first PERFECT PITCH in show history. Brooke Hahn, joins the show to talk about why working for Shubh was the worst, and why a visit to Italy ten years ago inspired the best business idea we've heard yet. Brooke is an avid cyclist and one of the best scaleup operators around, and she put those two things...

Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast and Number One Made in Canada Entrepreneurship Podcast returns with Craig D'Cruze of Inverted Ventures. Craig shares his journey from head chef to venture capital but most importantly has three business ideas to pitch the guys. Enjoy MakeItScrambly, Flightocracy and ReallyFastFood. Check out two of Inverted's portfolio companies HomeTeam and Naturemary ....

Canada's Number One Business-Comedy podcast is back with a great show and a big announcement. Mary Llaneta , Co-Founder of Hoodo , joins Pip and Shubh to talk Presence Infrastructure. What is Presence Infrastructure? Well, we won't give it away but it's more than just a place to poop. Mary also becomes the first ever guest to build a website for her pitch prior to coming in - https://wheredo.hoodo...