Bonus so-money episode, Kerr Simpson, co-founder and CEO of Wave Financial.

You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru,

Farnoosh Karabi. Each day, in a 30-minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top

business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnoosh herself. Looking for ways to save on gas

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happier life. Welcome to So Money. This episode is brought to us by Wave Financial

at WaveApps.com. We were within two weeks of cash out with probably a hundred people on staff

in 2015, and I knew that I was just going to ride the ship all the way to the bottom if that's

what it took. Welcome to So Money, everybody. We are in conversation today with an entrepreneur

named Canada's most admired CEO in the growth sector. Kerr Simpson is here. He is the co-founder

and CEO of Wave Financial and Accounting Software Business recently acquired by H&R Block

for over 500 million Canadian dollars. But like many founders, Kerr's journey did not come without

fair share of struggles and financial hardships. And today in this climate of economic difficulty

and struggle for small businesses, I wanted to bring Kerrk on the show to offer lessons and hopefully

shed some optimism and insight into what it takes to grow a business all the way to an acquisition.

But that's not to say that Kerrk's work and his team's work at Wave Financial is done. Here's Kerrk Simpson.

Kerrk Simpson, welcome to So Money. It's nice to connect. Thanks so much for having me. It's a pleasure.

We're going to cover so much ground, hopefully in the next 30 minutes as someone who is such an

intrepid entrepreneur in the financial space. It's so fascinating to learn firsthand from founders

about their ideas going into building something that is revolutionary and then to also see it through

all the ups and downs to the exit. We're going to get in it. But I understand that your journey

Kerrk, and this is so, I think it's such a great place to start because it's an unlikely story

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