A few days ago, we approached Betty Esperanza and Skateboards for Hope about sponsoring a scholarship on Atila. We record all our sales presentations for use internally to see where we can improve. We originally had no intention of sharing this publicly. However, we were so inspired by Betty’s story and skateboard for Hope we asked if we could shar…

Come along on a journey with me through the past, present and future of education. As I talk about how we got here, where we are now, and my ideas for how we can create a better future for students, parents and educators. Read the full article here: https://atila.ca/blog/tomiwa/open-the-gates Watch the video on Youtube View the slides Visit the web…

Chris Egi (@chrisegi15) is the valedictorian of the Harvard University 2018 class and captain of the Men’s varsity basketball team. He is currently an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group - Private Capital Investing. He was also the captain of the Canadian Men's U-19 national basketball team. He is the founder of No Mo…

Del (Chinua Ofulue) is an RnB and alternative soul singer, rapper and writer. He recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Western University. In this episode we talk about is Drake the smartest and greatest rapper alive, advice for breaking into the music industry. How to market and grow your personal brand…

Will Richman is the founder of GrowthGenius and Bitmaker Labs. Before that he worked in Wealth management at BNY Mellon and spent 12 months backpacking through Asia and Europe. Will is also a graduate of the Honor’s Business Administration program at Ivey Business School. GrowthGenius is a software service to help you get sales meetings with your i…

Chika is a medical school student at the University of Toronto Medical School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Health Science from McMaster University. Chika is also a poet, writer and an advocate for gender and racial diversity in medicine. She helped grow a program called the BSAP, Black Students application process. Students still have to meet …

Laura Desimone is an elementary school teacher for the Peel District School Board and a Reiki master and founder of @illuminabodyandsoul. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Education at the University of Toronto. In this episode we talk about the importance of self-love, ways to improve the education system and how Reiki and meditation can teach …

Josh Tufinho (DJ Tuffy) is currently on a scholarship at Niagara University to play NCAA DI Soccer, in the sports and entertainment marketing program. Josh is also a DJ and has opened for Tory Lanez and is getting his real estate license. Josh previously played for the Toronto FC academy. We talk about how he got a scholarship to play soccer and wa…

Sefunmi Osinaike is currently a product manager at EcoBee. He was previously a product manager intern at Microsoft and Apple, both within the same year and graduated from the prestigious Waterloo Electrical and Computer Engineering program. He also has a podcast called Doing a Thing to help other people get product manager roles. In this episode we…

☹️ A few weeks ago student loans was trending on Twitter because student loan funding was getting cut by the government. 🤔 A lot of people like me were trying to figure out how we would be able to pay for school. 🤑 I made a thread on twitter sharing some of the tips and tricks I use to pay for school and it went viral. 🧠 I decided to make a video a…

3 weeks ago I participated in a pitch competition for Atila hosted by Propel at Western University and LEAP at Fanshawe College. Here is the pitch for Atila that won us $3,000. Huge shout out to the team for all their help: Aurorita, Jotham, Lea and Val , thank you so much. Full video: https://atila.ca/blog/tomiwa/atila-startup-pitch-that-won-3000…

Umesh is a currently in the Waterloo Systems Engineering program. He is an incoming product management intern at Credit Karma in San Francisco. He has previously worked at Flexport, Toast, Clearbanc and Shopify in a mix of product and engineering roles. In this episode we talk about why he chose Tech over consulting and Product Management over soft…

Paul is an incoming management consultant at Bain and Company. Before that he was an investment banking summer analyst at RBC after declining an interview at Goldman Sachs and founder of a food delivery company called Dine Easy. He is currently in his final year in the honours business program at the Ivey Business School. In this episode we talk ab…

Pei Li joins us on this episode to talk about U of T Engineering Dropout, WealthSimple Software Engineer, Beatcamp and Code Mode Founder: Pei Li– Atila TV 005 Full interview at https://atila.ca/blog Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J61yMKnqgsM Music by: It just makes me happy by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads Music promote…

One of the most valuable skills to learn in 2019 is learning how to code. Since the hardest part to any change you want to make in your life is usually starting, here is a very detailed step-by-step guide that teaches you exactly how to start learning how to code. In this tutorial I will walk through the foundations of how to learn front end develo…

Trevor Sookraj is a part of the Growth team at Clearbit in San Francisco working to grow their self-serve products. Before that he was a sales intern at Shopify and a marketing analyst at Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp. Trevor is currently at Western studying political science, after he declined his acceptance into the Ivey Busines…

Annie Zhang is a product manager at Facebook, working on the Facebook Watch team. Before that she was a PM at Shopify and the first employee at Brainstation. Annie graduated from Western with a Philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) degree after declining her acceptance into the Ivey business school program at Western University. We talk about ho…

You can find the transcript, video and more on atila.ca: https://atila.ca/blog/tomiwa/from-medical-school-rejection-twice-to-google-and-pinterest-software-engineer-ruth-grace-wong-atila-tv-episode-2 If you would like to help transcribe the full interview, edit videos or help Atila TV in any way, please send an email to tomiwa@atila.ca. Timestamps W…

Emily Chen joins us on the first episode to talk about how she got into U of T medical school without a degree, advice for students studying pre med programs and the importance of work life balance and self care.Blog Post: https://atila.ca/blog/tomiwa/getting-into-medical-school-without-a-degree-advice-for-pre-med-students-work-life-balance-and-sel…

Live Coding tutorial on building websites that work without internet using Angular, Firebase and Service Workers. The theory of how service workers work, a short tutorial to apply that theory to make the atila.ca progressive web app that runs without the internet and finally, what this means for the you and future of the internet. Here is the blog:…