Take talented and ambitious people, give them a space to connect, and watch magic happen. That’s what Builders Club is all about. Join us and let’s build!
Joined July 2024
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Conviction can't be faked. Fear leaks.
Harry Gandhi on why the pitch that matters most is the one you hold loosest:
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Builders Club is a room in Waterloo for people going zero to one.
Not a program. Not a demo day. Just builders, around other builders.
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Distribution without a moat is a head start, not a business.
Adi Patel on why he killed a 50k-user product and started over:
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The single biggest source of billion-dollar US founders with a Canadian background is Waterloo.
The talent's here. We're building the room.
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Harry Gandhi on egoless ambition: care completely, hold the outcome loosely.
We sat down with him:
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AI made building easier to start and harder to get good at.
The edge now is who you're around.
That's Builders Club:
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Adi Patel killed a product with 50,000 users because it wasn't defensible.
We sat down with him. Worth your time:
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Canada's best founders get found young and build in SF. The data is brutal.
We're building the room that keeps them close, here.
Read The Conveyor:
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What happens if the ground beneath the next ten Gauravs is solid before they have to leave?
Why Canada's $750M debate is the wrong fight - and what foundational work actually means:
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S26 Founder Dinner Series.
Six Tuesday dinners. One speaker per session who's built something real.
Applications close soon.
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210 founders in the Builders Club network are above Barn's investment threshold.
Most haven't started a formal raise.
Barn sees them before the pitch deck exists.
How it works:
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"The builders most worth finding don't look like builders yet."
Why every organized ecosystem is calibrated to the moment after the interesting part:
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Hongwei Liu. Co-founder of Mappedin. 10 years. Same company. Same problem.
6 consecutive record quarters.
What playing the long game actually looks like in Waterloo:
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Last push for S26 applications.
Six Tuesday dinners starting in May.
For early-stage technical founders who are actively building and willing to engage:
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Barn Ventures writes the first cheque.
Before traction. Before the pitch deck. Before the rest of the market notices.
Rooted in the Builders Club ecosystem.
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715 builders. 29 sectors.
AI dropped from 36% to 23% of the room in H2 2025.
Hardware, logistics, SaaS picked up the share.
210 founders above Barn's investment threshold.
Proximity matters:
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Every speaker in the W26 series was Waterloo-connected.
Some grew up here. Some chose to come back. Some never left.
The pattern isn't nostalgia. It's compounding:
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We built a guide for anyone thinking about coming to Waterloo.
Where to work. When to visit. Where to eat. How to plug in.
For visiting founders and builders from afar:
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We treat the earliest, riskiest support as grants.
Non-dilutive. No cap table. No compounding ownership.
The upside leaves the country.
Why early support should be investment, not charity:
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Still building in Waterloo this spring?
The S26 Founder Dinner Series is open.
Small group. Home-cooked meal. Founders who've done the reps.
Apply:
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