Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to

you by its founder, Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast,

we talked to top COOs who share the insights,

strategies and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

Today's launch academy's VP of program Sam Chan. Sam oversees the programming and

strategy for launch his network of tech entrepreneurs. Over his eight years

with the company Sam has advised and supported thousands of founders from over 35 countries and those companies have gone on to raise over $2 billion.

He helped create Maple, a startup acceleration program focused on helping founders expand their startups to Canada and has helped grow

over 100 founders and their families to Canada in the last five years.

Sam is also the host of Bits and Bites and the Launch AMA Podcast, both focused on unerthing the stories behind every

startup aside from launch Sam is also the founder of Chicken an advisory focused on

web three projects so Sam welcome the second command podcast thanks for Adam McCamp focused on Web3 projects. So Sam, welcome to the Second Command

podcast. Thanks for Adam, Cameron. Yeah, lots to dive in here. I love it when I

saw that you helped create maple. I always think of the maple syrup

mafia. Is that the tie in there?

Not exactly so so maple obviously a very Canadian thing you Cameron being from

Vancouver like know this very well as long as I don't add the

word leaves to it, then it's all fine, right? Okay, yeah, yeah. But the

concept of maple trees and kind of being a staple of Canadian culture is

actually the background of how this program was made because

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