The original virtual tech startup originated in Canada.
Metrowerks saved Apple and for a good spell owned embedded dev with CodeWarrior. Critical player in the the history of software/hardware.
I know a few people who bootstrapped their careers & wealth working remotely for Metrowerks in the early days. All are now rich even by valley standards ( $10M USD with some quite higher ).
Very innovative company that hired purely based on proving your ability to code. No in-person interviews and nobody cared what you looked like.
It‘s the commercial compilers story all over again: Turbo Pascal/Watcom/CodeWarrior, the closed tools find the developer ergonomics first, but the lasting value eventually leaks into GCC/LLVM-class infrastructure.
Mac OS 9 lovers, rejoice! We have a new, modern-web-capable browser! Built with CodeWarrior 8, MacSurf bundles a native port of NetSurf, with real CSS3, real ES5 Java, real PNG w. alpha, real TLS 1.2, and runs in 64 MB RAM on a G3.
macsurf.org/