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Originally Posted by Denscity
Hootsuite is all I can think of.
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Hootsuite uses Amazon's infrastructure hosting services. Amazon is maybe 500x or 1000x more valuable and important than Hootsuite. It is like comparing a small company that makes aftermarket car add-ons to General Motors.
Generally speaking the best software job opportunities in Canada are at branch offices of American companies. There are some successful startups, sure, but working at a startup as a programmer is closer to a lottery ticket or sketchy get rich quick scheme than a good career strategy. The vast majority of people are better off working at established major companies if they can, and the best ones are all American. Most of the best talent in Canada moves to the US and earns wages much higher than what they would get in Canada. It's not an situation that will tend to create large and successful Canadian companies.
I don't see this changing anytime soon while funding sources in Canada are so much more limited and while everything happens more slowly here. It's not possible for a Canadian Uber to develop for example without regulatory protection given the economic situation in Canada.
The good news I guess is that most people have a hugely exaggerated sense of the technological importance of these companies. The fact that they are so lucrative says more about the structure of the US economy than about how novel and critical their technology is.