Chad Hayden

Canada's Number 1 Business Comedy Podcast continues with its Number 2 season.  Shubh and Philippe record live at Motiv studio, with special guest Chad Hayden. Chad shares his extremely Albertan origin story, from roughnecking on drilling rigs to petroleum engineering, living in Denver and Houston, and eventually building Galatea, a venture-backed oilfield logistics technology company. Then he gets down to business and pitches Shitbox: a camera-enabled system that uses positive reinforcement to train your dog to poop in one designated part of the yard. The idea quickly expands to thermal cameras, Milk-Bone launchers, public shaming, geese, horses, cows and Shubh’s ongoing attempt to name his future dog something that will support a 12-year comedy bit. Philippe then explains a recent visit to the medical clinic, before Chad pitches Knock Knock, Who’s There?, a voice-activated door access system built around knocking, passwords and unnecessarily elaborate ways to let your friends into your house. That somehow turns into an even bigger idea: a company that creates elaborate real-world quests for gifts, birthdays, weddings and eventually venture capital term sheets. Chad also tells the story of attending one Tech Thursday and ultimately landing an investor he met there. They try to wrap. They fail. Instead, the conversation moves into suspicious vacuum stores, a potential investigative TV show about businesses that may or may not be fronts, Philippe accidentally getting free liquor, and finally his very bougie idea for a better Google Maps for boats. Brought to you in part by The New Network and Center9. The New Network helps Canadian tech companies build and scale high-performance teams, while Center9 helps companies with Microsoft 365, security, identity, Copilot adoption, AI compliance and migrations. 00:00 Welcome To Episode 30-Something 01:00 Thank you, Motiv 02:00 Meet Chad Hayden 04:00 Life On The Oil Rigs 06:00 Denver, Houston And Back To Calgary 07:00 How Do You Pronounce Galatea? 08:00 Building Galatea 09:00 The Galatea Elevator Pitch 10:00 Shubh’s Mouth Trumpet Career 12:00 Mark Le Dain And Equity VC 14:00 New Network + Center9 18:00 Have You Ever Stepped In Dog Poop? 19:00 Introducing Shitbox 21:00 Chad’s Very Albertan Dog 22:00 Shubh Gets Naming Rights 34:00 How Shitbox Actually Works 42:00 Lying Up To Your Doctor 45:00 Knock Knock, Who’s There? 46:00 Voice-Activated Door Access 49:00 Does It Work On Vampires? 56:00 A Perfect 75 And Pot Of Gold 58:00 The Quest Company 01:08:00 Tech Thursday As A Quest 01:11:00 We Attempt To End The Episode 01:12:00 The World’s Greatest Vacuum Store 01:13:00 Is This Business A Front? 01:14:00 Investigative Television For Fronts 01:23:00 Somehow There Is Another Pitch 01:24:00 Google Maps For Boats 01:36:00 Nobody Likes The Boat Idea 01:37:00 Motiv Turns The Lights Off 01:38:00 Finally, Actually, The End