The Game of Capital

In this episode of The Game of Capital, we sit down with Robert Price, founder of Bode, the company modernizing real estate transactions by cutting out the traditional 5-6% realtor commission and replacing it with AI-driven tools that connect buyers and sellers directly. Bode has already facilitated almost 4,000 home sales across Alberta, BC, and Ontario , and Robert isn't slowing down. We tal...

No guest. No studio. Just Luca and Sam, sitting poolside in Vancouver, talking capital. In this special summer edition of The Game of Capital, we skip the interview format and get straight into what we're seeing on the ground , and why summers are not as slow as they seem . From massive IPOs creating a wave of liquidity, to AI rollups of traditional businesses, to a Q4 that could reshape the e...

In this episode of The Game Of Capital, we sit down with Reza Sanaie, co-founder of Beanworks , the AP automation company acquired by Quadient for $100M in 2021, and now founder of Proper , a company building the first fully autonomous finance platform for mid-sized businesses. Reza has been on both sides of the table. He has raised from investors in Canada and the US, built and sold a company, wa...

In this episode of The Game of Capital, Luca and Sam go off-script for a raw, unfiltered conversation sparked by a recurring question they keep coming back to: is venture capital still the right vehicle to fund the next generation of tech companies? The answer, as it turns out, is complicated. AI is commanding exit multiples that traditional enterprise software simply can't compete with, and VCs a...

In this episode of The Game of Capital, we sit down with Keith Gillard — serial entrepreneur, former VC at Mitsubishi and BASF, Founding Director of Foresight (Canada's largest clean tech accelerator) , and Co-founder & CEO of SUSTAERO, a company turning forest waste into Sustainable Aviation Fuel for major airlines worldwide. Keith's story is one of a rare few who has seen the startup ecosyst...

In this episode of The Game of Capital, Sam Pirzadeh and Luca Maraschi sit down with Sergio Toro , founder of Aterio , a data-as-a-service company that t racks the physical buildout of data centers across the US, using satellite imagery, and turns that intelligence into early signals for hedge funds , banks, and utility companies before the numbers ever hit a quarterly earnings call. But Sergio's...

What happens when geopolitics kills your funding overnight? In this episode of The Game of Capital, we sit down with Reza Arbabian , a serial entrepreneur who built one of Iran's largest classifieds marketplaces from the ground up , scaled to 10 million active users and 400 employees, raised foreign capital during a rare window of openness... and then watched it all freeze the moment the sanctions...

What is capital, really? In this first episode of The Game of Capital , we start from the beginning. How this all came together, and why we felt the need to build it. What started as a simple idea between two people and turned into something more: a mission to better understand how capital actually works in the real world. From meeting in an elevator (literally) to ongoing conversations about inve...