Founder Journey ft. Ron Spreeuwenberg

Episode notes

In today's episode, we are looking back at a popular conversation from Toronto Tech Week.Ron Spreeuwenberg, an experienced entrepreneur who built, scaled, and successfully exited a company, joined Alex Norman and Alexandra Reilly to share more about his journey from selling firecrackers on the schoolyard to co-founding HiMama, a vertical SaaS company for the childcare space. Ron discusses the deeply personal motivation behind becoming an entrepreneur, his methodical approach to validating his business idea and achieving product-market fit, and the challenges of scaling and maintaining culture in a growing organization. He also offers insights on the decision to exit the business, the importance of focus in a vertical market, and advice for founders.Thank you to our podcast partners at StartWell for helping us make this content possible. You can learn more about their offerings at