Nim Balachandran - Founder & CEO of CloudTax, Building a highly technical product as a non-tech founder

Episode notes

This was an episode I was really excited about. I met Nim in Boston back in January 2019. He told me about what he was building, and I was instantly pumped about it. He founded CloudTax , which is a tax filing service that helps Canadians easily file their taxes online for free. The reason i was excited to speak to Nim is because tax and accounting have always been close to me. I got my BCom in accounting and finance, and one of my side hustles back in the day was filing taxes for my classmates, so this was a really fun and nostalgic episode for me especially. Nim was born in Sri Lanka and migrated to Canada shortly after the tsunami in 2004. He worked with the CRA for a couple of years, and had some experience at Sunlife as a financial advisor. He eventually circled back to his original passion which was taxes, and that’s how CloudTax was formed. We’re talking about how he built the initial product, how he funded the development, getting certified by the CRA, and eventually launching the business. This past year was CloudTax's first filing season, and was a huge success. Several thousand Canadians across all provinces filed their taxes with CloudTax.

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