Irfhan Rawji: How Immigration Fosters Canadian Competitiveness

Irfhan Rawji is the Founder & CEO of MobSquad, an innovative Canadian start-up that ensures high-caliber software engineers with U.S. work visa challenges remain working with their current company but is near-shored from Canada. Irfhan is also a Managing Partner with Relay Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with US$600MM of assets under management. Irfhan sits down with Scott to offer his perspectives on what makes Canada an attractive place to work, the immigrant wage gap, and the role of MobSquad.

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