Jackson Lang

Four HL Film shorts. Therapy Session put one actor in two roles on a split frame. Also: Reconstruction – Contact and Action – Bill (editing), Keep Talking (cinematography).

Starting middle and captain of the UCC varsity team. Four years of rep ball before that; fifth at Volleyball Canada Nationals, U14, 2022. Nothing to do with startups, which is the point.

I raced here as a kid, then crossed to the other side of the gate: a U10 race group every winter weekend, progress reports for parents, holiday camps.

Summer staff on Lake Muskoka. The ice-cream line was slow, so I made a little checkout tool and the rest of the staff used it all season. No numbers, it was a summer job.

Mortgage and insurance administration at a Toronto brokerage: files end to end, brokers, lenders, clients, and a reorganised document workflow so fewer files stalled.

My first storefront: a website selling bracelets that family and friends made. A few hundred dollars in sales and no company behind it. The first look at the gap between making a thing and selling it.

Private math tutoring through the COVID years, then two more years with Horizons. The lesson I kept relearning: if the student is quiet, you are talking too much.

Founder and student. First-year Rotman Commerce at the University of Toronto. I tend to find things I wish existed, then try to make them.

Leader in training: counselled campers, ran cabin activities with the LIT team, learned that a group of nine-year-olds is a startup with no runway.

School badminton alongside volleyball. Not a story, just true.

One number from school that people ask about. Also: Waterloo Fermat certificate of distinction, National Spanish Exam gold, NSLC Duke pitch and simulation wins. None of it is the point.

Debate Club and the Financial Literacy Club. The second one is where the mortgage summer came from.

A classroom economy built on trading cards and paid out in chocolate. One card was the reserve note. Classmates bought packs hoping to find it. First lesson in monetary policy.