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Superette’s Mimi Lam on Staying Ahead of the Cannabis Market Saturation

– canadianbusiness.com

In high school, I watched a lot of Judge Judy and it made me want to become a hotshot criminal lawyer. Instead, I ended up going to Carleton University for international business because the program offered a two-semester exchange. I just wanted to travel and experience new things.

I started to gain confidence in university. I shaved the back of my head, and I got my first tattoo—a flower on my shoulder blade—in a trailer on the outskirts of Shanghai while on exchange. I also smoked cannabis for the first time, on a rooftop with some friends who taught me how to inhale. I didn’t really enjoy it at first—I only smoked as a social thing.

After I graduated, one of my professors connected me with Code Cubitt, who had just started Mistral Venture Partners, a seed-stage venture capital firm in Ottawa. I worked with entrepreneurs funding start-ups in the tech space. After eight months there, I secured a job in investment banking on Bay Street. At first it seemed like a dream—I was young and making a pretty nice salary—but I was working close to 100 hours a week and was beyond stressed…

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