Interviews with Startup Founders as Host of Start Canada Podcast
Margaux Miller interviews Chris Schmidt, the original creator of Snapchat geo-filters and today, the CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto Ventures - a venture-backed artificial intelligence company that is leveraging the hyper-personalized online world and using our body dimensions to customize goods and services.
The founder, Chris Schmidt started his first business at the age of ten. And right after university, he founded the world's first Snapchat filter company, Geofilter Studio - which exploded at an unprecedented rate of 24,000% and grew to 85 employees in the first year. They were the fastest-growing company in all of Canada in 2017 and became the largest filter producer in the world.
In this episode, CEO and Founder Chris Schmidt speaks about his innate entrepreneurial nature, how to build a strong workplace culture, and what it’s like to be creating modern - some may say millennial and even Gen Z - tech solutions.