Shubh Sidhu

Season 1: Some of Our Favourite Moments Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast looks back at some of our favourite moments from Season 1. We've sat through an entire season of questionable pitches, unnecessary inventions, and business ideas that should never have made it past the group chat. Now we've collected some of our favourites in one episode. From rating grocery-store salsa and monetizing prayer to questionable bathroom innovations, animal talent agencies, and other solutions to problems nobody has, it's a collection of entrepreneurial nonsense. Join Shubh Sidhu, Philippe Burns, and some of our favourite guests as we revisit the pitches, arguments, and moments that made our first season memorable. No new pitches. No due diligence. Absolutely no lessons learned. Brought to you in part by our friends at the New Network.

Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Keri Lee of BlueMarvel AI, an Alberta industrial AI company helping operators and executives better manage continuous process facilities. Keri joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records to talk about growing up on a farm near Longview, picking rocks, baling hay, working in water and sanitation technology, getting pulled into machine learning before it was cool, joining AltaML and eventually helping build BlueMarvel. Then Keri pitches Bootstraps, a marketplace for wealthy families who want their kids to understand what a hard day’s work actually feels like. The guys dig into farm chores, cabin jobs, staining decks, knocking down wasp nests, moving dirt piles, TaskRabbit in reverse, Camp Callous, cattle drives, tree chopping, fence building, log driving, and the very real possibility that privileged kids might come home able to fix a light switch. Then it gets even bigger: an adult version for people who would rather learn how to chop wood, change oil, weld, build a fence, fix a cabin, lay foundation, install a window, or make furniture than take another pottery class. Also: Learn how BlueMarvel came out of AltaML and Spartan Controls Shubh tries to make “Brown Marvel” happen Philippe’s rich-adjacent friend network comes under scrutiny The group debates whether having a billionaire friend counts if they never invite you on a jet Keri’s dad is the spiritual head counsellor of Bootstraps Philippe suggests the camp version and immediately improves the business Camp Callous gets workshopped as a brand The guys discover they would pay good money for adult trade-skill classes Both the kids’ version and adult version receive perfect 75 salsa scores Brought to you as always in part by The New Network. Need great people for your startup or scaleup? You need New Network. Plus shoutout to Center 9, our preferred partner for Microsoft 365, security, identity, Copilot adoption, AI compliance, and M&A migrations.

Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Ismail Khalil, founder and CEO of ReadyAI, formerly ReadyCar, an Alberta-born company building AI-powered workflow tools for pharmacies, medical clinics, community hospitals and now vet clinics. Ish joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records after driving down from Edmonton at 6AM, matcha in hand, to talk about building ReadyAI from his mom’s basement, working with customers like Rexall, Shoppers and Neighborly, going from early Jobber sales hire to VC to founder, and why more Brown people should probably drink matcha. Then Ish opens up the future and immediately starts talking about walls. The guys dig into physical AI, buttonless elevators, restaurant screens, the end of phones, Star Trek, AI risk, sushi orders that never get remembered, Meta’s metaverse pivot, VR skepticism, and eventually Shubh’s practical contribution to the future of humanity: Couch.AI, an AI-powered couch that knows who you are, adjusts to your body, supports your activity, and maybe tells you to stop eating nachos. Then Ish brings it back to earth with Committee, a fintech idea inspired by South Asian and immigrant community savings circles, auntie networks, e-transfers, emergency funds, wedding money, blockchain, trust, and the very real problem of helping people access pooled capital without getting wrecked by bad actors or predatory loans. Also: Ish explains how ReadyAI is expanding from pharmacies and clinics into vets Shubh realizes his entire network is doctors, dentists and medical professionals Philippe learns about holdcos The guys debate whether the world should become one giant phone Shubh becomes weirdly bullish on AI-powered furniture Philippe makes it very clear he does not want his couch taking his blood pressure Committee gets the kind of reaction Ish probably should have started with The guys accidentally recreate every VC rejection line ever Ish heads straight from the pod to Banff to sell to 500 pharmacists Brought to you as always in part by The New Network. Need people? You need New Network. And shoutout to Center 9, our preferred partner for Microsoft 365, security, identity, Copilot adoption, AI compliance, and M&A migrations.

Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Adam Thompson, founder of Friday Socks, a Calgary success story built on purposely mismatched socks. Adam joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records to talk about starting Friday Socks with $5,000 on a credit card, packing orders late at night in a one-bedroom condo, and building one of the coolest real businesses we’ve had on the show that now has socks in over 800 stores!!! Then Adam opens up his idea list and immediately starts dropping bombs...bath bombs that is! The guys dig into vitamin C bath bombs, Atomic Bath Bombs, Pop Top Plants, canned air, canned farts, fake “How’s My Driving?” complaint lines, pumpjack art, weight-loss belts, chef home-cooking content, five-gallon indoor gardens, and interactive finger-puppet books. Also: Friday Socks ships millions of pairs and is in roughly 800 stores Adam explains why mismatched socks are harder to design than people think Philippe discovers more than he ever expected to know about sock construction Shubh tries to make everyone buy Friday Socks before supporting any other local company Adam reveals he used to do stand-up The guys debate whether every product should come in a can Multiple ideas receive perfect 75 salsa scores “Gardening as a Service” briefly becomes the business Shubh actually needs Shubh and Pip socks become dangerously possible Brought to you as always in part by The New Network. And shoutout to Center9, our preferred partner for Microsoft 365, security, identity, Copilot adoption, AI compliance, and M&A migrations.

Season Two, Episode Three of Canada’s Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is here, and Brooke Hahn is back. Brooke, now CEO of Flockler, returns to the pod after delivering one of the earliest perfect pitches in YBIOTL history with BikeWash7000. Since then, Flockler got acquired, Brooke went on sabbatical, and somehow BikeWash7000 still has not been built. We are all disappointed. This time, Brooke joins Shubh and Philippe at Red Mile Records to pitch a new batch of ideas, including: The Vitch, a feminist answer to truck nuts A low-cost way to track kids’ lost water bottles, sweaters, and camp gear A legitimately useful personal life dashboard for insurance, benefits, passports, registrations, renewals, kids’ appointments, household admin, and all the adult responsibilities nobody warned us about Also: Brooke finally receives her YBIOTL light bulb and immediately asks for merch Shubh and Philippe debate trucker hats versus dad hats Rose, Bud, Thorn becomes a segment and then immediately turns into mostly thorns Philippe gives another dating-life update, despite Shubh’s friendship hat trying to protect him Brooke explains why dating is terrible Shubh complains about the beer selection at Tech Thursday Live We discuss corrupted audio, AI cleanup, Callaway Park, chimney sweeping, sauna insurance, passport chaos, and whether “the greatest gift is the present” came from Kung Fu Panda Plus, Shubh gives a deeply specific Flockler sales pitch and maybe invents “Thorns with Brooke Hahn” as a future Tech Thursday segment. Brought to you in part by our friends at The New Network and Center 9. This is a presentation of Indian Dad Media in association with Thursday Media. Follow us on YouTube and on Instagram. Follow the show: Website: ybiotl.ca YouTube: @yourbusinessisontheline Instagram: @yourbusinessisontheline

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

Brought to you in part by The New Network and Center9. See the New Network for all your scale up recruiting needs and Center9 for Microsoft 365 transformation. Season two of Your Business is on the Line kicks off in a new Calgary studio at Red Mile Records with Shubh and co-host Philippe welcoming Shubh’s better half, Rita Soin. Before the pitches, they detour into Philippe’s confusing not-a-date dating life and Shubh and Rita’s high school origin story, plus updates on Shubh’s kids launching press-on nails and crochet businesses using Lovable.  Rita then pitches two ideas influenced by her experience navigating her breast cancer diagnosis, recovery and time off: “HollaAtcha,” a service to hire vetted, enthusiastic stand-in cheer squads so every kid has someone in the stands, and a “CancerCard” that provides practical perks and discounts for people with cancer. ——- 00:00 Season Two Kickoff 01:44 Meet Dr Rita 02:43 New Studio Vibes 06:27 Phil Dating Segment 12:58 Shubh And Rita Origin 21:52 New Network Sponsor Break 23:56 Kids Startup Updates 28:10 Center9 Sponsor Break  30:19 Rita Dentist Q And A 33:20 Sleep Apnea Detour 35:05 Rita On Shubh 36:28 Inside Voice Story 38:26 No Poker Face 39:32 Moving to Calgary 40:28 Airing Grievances 41:08 Cheer Squad Pitch 54:56 Cancer Card Pitch 01:00:10 Guardrails and Tiers 01:07:56 Kids Hear the News 01:10:26 Wrap Up ——- The excellent vegetarian restaurant mentioned on the pod: https://www.padmanadi.com/

In Episode 31 of Canada's Number 1 Business-Comedy Podcast, Shubh, Philippe, and returning producer Chaz record in person during Calgary Stampede, riffing on Chaz’s first Stampede visit, late-night food spots, and Philippe’s painful cowboy boots and nonstop events.  Philippe recaps Tech Thursday/House 831 Stampede programming, including a Tourism Calgary white-hatting ceremony, multiple dinners, and a nonprofit fundraiser that raised about $15,000 for the Trellis Society, plus connecting Kelly Schmitt with Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida for VIP access. Shubh shares a Kelowna trip and pitches “BillBoat” floating lake billboards, then a “Dad.AI/Coach Shubh” advice app idea, before they discuss podcasts, pets, and travel. Brought to you in part by The New Network and Center9. 00:00 Cold Open Banter 00:42 Stampede Welcome Back Chaz 01:53 Calgary Food Crawl 03:14 Boots Horses And Poop 05:47 Horse Bites Debate 06:44 The New Network Sponsor Read 07:46 Office Setup And Painting Life 12:19 Center9 Sponsor Read 14:27 Tech Summit White Hatting 17:08 Stampede Events And Fundraiser 20:45 OLP VIP Connection 23:23 Europe Dates And London Talk 26:17 Worcestershire Pronunciation Spiral 27:21 Stockholm Snus Relapse 32:26 Banter Pod And Kelowna Drive 33:00 Kelowna Billboard Overload 33:41 Floating Ads on Water 42:00 Billboat Name and Logistics 46:19 Muskoka Pushback 50:51 Coach Shubh Dad Advice App 52:34 Accent Chair and Dad Calls 57:34 DIY Table and Ford Ranger 01:02:48 Chaz Returns and Podcast Plans 01:06:09 Wrap Up and Goodbyes

Episode 30 of Canada's favourite Business-Comedy podcast Your Business Is On the Line is here, and it's a "secret". We go back in time to an episode recorded with little preparation, where Shubh and Philippe banter about audio improvements, a hockey-stick tape prototype, chart-watching as the show hits Canada’s top 100 entrepreneurship podcasts. We've got overly long intros, plus Chaz shares a life update about moving to a small Stratford apartment and missing a roommate’s cat. Chaos ensues as Lewis Horwood (PureLend) and Michael Rossi (NEO) are pulled into the room mid-recording; Lewis pitches “runmylife.ai,” an app that uses big-data-style insights to tell him what to do and reduce decision-making. The hosts help to define the product, discuss data access, and Mike riffs on dynamic insurance pricing based on real-time behaviour. Brought to you as always in part by the New Network. And we are VERY VERY proud to introduce a new sponsor, Center9, our preferred partner for all your Microsoft 365 needs. 00:00 Secret Episode Setup 01:50 Audio Wins and Prototypes 05:08 Podcast Pressure and Fans 09:10 Big Guests and Short Intros 11:09 Chaz Apartment and Cat 15:10 Guests Incoming Today 16:33 Sponsor Break 20:15 Lewis Joins the Studio 22:02 Meet Lewis and PureLend 25:42 Watford Football Woes 27:16 Phil Leaves Mid-Pod 28:52 Mike Rossi Crashes In 32:35 Run My Life AI Pitch 37:10 Decision Fatigue Debate 40:28 Insurance Monetization Twist 43:57 Salsa Scores and Feedback 48:12 Wrap Up and Teasers

Episode 29 of Your Business Is On the Line features returning guest Sebastian Hiscock (PureLend Co-Founder, creator of SalsaScore) as the hosts riff on SalsaScore, cowboy/Stampede energy, and bringing back “hit” guests and discuss PureLend’s rapid growth and hiring, including what it’s like working the top-of-funnel and the hard-to-test traits of resilience and doing the right thing under pressure. Philippe and Shubh brainstorm a business idea around simulated, high-stakes crisis scenarios as a hiring stress test ), then Seb pitches “RestJet,” a premium end-to-end travel service where customers are anesthetized, boxed, transported, and wake up in their destination bed. The guys also detour into inference data centers (GPUs, model hosting/partnerships), space data centers, and pop-culture references. Go watch this movie: The Game (1997). Brought to you as always in part by the New Network. And we are VERY VERY proud to introduce a brand new sponsor, Center9, our preferred partner for all your Microsoft 365 needs. 00:00 Smoky Cold Open 00:14 Episode Setup Chaos 02:03 Stampede Cowboy Vibes 02:43 Seb Returns Salsa Score 06:55 PureLend Hiring Update 09:03 Sponsor The New Network 10:05 Stress Test Hiring Idea 13:40 Murder Mystery Scenario 19:11 Sponsor Center9 21:25 Naming and Scoring Camelot 28:06 Inference Data Centers 101 30:24 Space Data Centers and Sports 31:38 New Pitch Travel Anesthesia 34:19 Travel Is Miserable 34:53 RestJet Mechanics Explained 36:03 Airline Economics And Packing Boxes 39:02 Cryosleep For Any Travel 44:48 Shrinking Tech And Bird Fears 49:09 Salsa Score And Idea Recap 54:46 Stampede Plug And Hiring Pitch 58:53 Dice Cheating As Interview Test 01:01:02 Final Thanks And Wrap

Our first ever guest on YBIOTL was Sebastian Hiscock, founder of SalsaScore. Incredibly, SalsaScore is the second most impressive thing Seb has founded. This week, we welcome Sebastian's Co-Founder at Purelend Technologies, Lucas Scheer. After a highly successful career as one of Calgary's top executive scale-up operators, Lucas, along with Seb and Wayne, started what this podcast thinks is one of Canada's most interesting AI native startups. Bootstrapped, profitable and growing exponentially. Which means Lucas is a serious entrepreneur. And he arrives to Episode 28 of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast with several unserious ideas. His idea, CoutureLend, receives the coveted perfect 75 score from both Pip and Shubh. It's brilliant. Listen, laugh and love...like no one is watching...or something. Presented in part by the New Network and Tech Thursday.

Episode 27 of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is back with Randy Warnaar, Founder and CEO of Fabstation. When he's not using augmented reality and AI to revolutionize steel fabrication and inspection, AND when he's not SURVIVING a plane crash, Randy is coming on Your Business Is On The Line to pitch two ideas. One will change Shubh's life, the other will change everyone's lives. Don't believe us about Randy walking away from a plane crash? He has receipts -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6VVXd5U4sg Tune in! Follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram! You can find all of our important links at YBIOTL.CA Brought to you in part by our friends at the New Network.

Shubh's friend Matt Morrison drops by for the latest episode of Canada's Number One Business Comedy Podcast. Matt is a YBIOTL superfan and a budding entrepreneur. He becomes the first ever guest to show up with prototypes of a physical product with his very manly lip chap line, MANCHAP. He also pitches an everything flavour Jam, a Shovelling A/R, Terrace Chants for North American sports and more. Plus: - Shubh Extreme Makeovers a broken podcast studio - The guys love Paddington but think he makes poor food storage choices - We are putting out reels now - follow @yourbusinessisontheline on IG - we need one follower to get to 100 As always, brought to you in part by New Network and Tech Thursday.

Our friend Andrew Browne, fresh off starting his new firm, Inflection Venture Partners, joins Shubh and Philippe on Canada's Number One Business Comedy Podcast. Andrew uses his extensive experience building and advising companies to give himself the confidence to pitch several bold ideas. Find all of our episodes at https://ybiotl.ca/ and start following us on Instagram because it only took us 24 episodes to start making video clips.  Also on this episode: Shubh and Andrew compare parenting notes Shubh and Pip have differing opinions on who the important father figures are in Philippe's life Andrew might need the Footle  A lot of time, probably too much time, on the luge and Saab And a whole bunch more! Actually that's most of it but we reaaaaallly drag it out Brought to you in part by our friends at New Network.

Mark Le Dain makes his debut on Canada's Number 1 Business Comedy Podcast and it's generational. Imagine Victor Wembamyama's debut season, but in podcast form. Mark pitches so many ideas, and they are all incredible. He's even offered to fund two of the ideas himself if there's an aspiring entrepreneur or two out there. Also, should we start another Podcast specifically for future Dog listeners? Would you listen to a podcast hosted by two dolphins? Check out the episode, and check out Fuelled, one of Canada's coolest and fastest growing tech companies. Brought to you in part by the New Network.

Friend of the program and #1 guest, by frequency, Tate Hackert returns with some big life updates and a pitch inspired by those life updates. Tune in for a very special emergency episode of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast.

Garth McAdam, Chaz and Shubh's friend and current General Counsel at ZayZoon, joins the guys for Episode 22 of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast. Garth pitches an idea that would help us really hone in on our tastes, and Shubh introduces a new segment called Be Legal Or Not which helps the YBIOTL team find possible compliance or legal problems with previous pitches. Also: - A Zither is the instrument Shubh was thinking of - Here's the book Garth was referencing As always, brought to you in part by the good folks at the New Network. If you're a growing startup or scaleup in Canada, and you're growing your team, you need to talk to Jennifer Wiens and her team.

Episode 21 of Canada's Number One Business-Comedy Podcast is here...and we are putting the band back together baby!! Erstwhile full-time producer Chaz Somers returns to the show to pitch three great ideas, but it turns out as a painter and a great listener he might in fact be the best business idea.  Woke up this morning in a panic because you forgot to get something for Mother's Day? Well your worries are over, just send your Mom an all new episode of YBIOTL. Plus: Shubh crushes some cartoon character impressions We learn all about SilverTuna painting Ice Bouncers Telescopic Segways Es that sound like As Brought to you in part by the good folks at the New Network and Boast!!

Shubh's friend and Co-Founder of AwareGTM Shy Rahnama stops by for the 20th (can you believe we've done twenty of these??) episode of Canada's Number 1 Business-Comedy Podcast. Shy is locked and loaded with a series of great ideas. Plus: Shubh and Pip are both grumpy but for very different reasons Tasmanian accents Philippe is getting Clawdbots Shubh and Shy talk about their new business venture Shubh educates the audience about how useless Koalas are Chaz makes his first on-air appearance since he got a real job Brought to you in part by our friends at The New Network!

Host note: this episode is a little spicier so maybe don’t let the kids listen lol. Nineteen episodes in to Canada's Number One Business-Comedy podcast we asked ourselves "Why have we not had a business person who is also a comedian on the program?" Well now we have. Abdul Aziz, from the top rated (actually) comedy podcast Spout Lore joins Pip and Shubh to talk about his background, how he got into business, his podcast, and his incredible pitch for the pod which involved sending us 50 cheeseburgers before we recorded. Not only is Abdul hilarious, he's unfiltered, so we did have to use the most "beeps" ever in this recording. Enjoy this episode, enjoy Abdul's pitch, and go check out Spout Lore, which is a hilarious Actual Play podcast  using the Dungeon World game system, brought to life by four award-winning comedians in Canada.  Successful Canadian startups don't have to be tech companies people. Also in this episode: Shubh is unavailable so Philippe usurps the intro and lobbies the people to get him on the cover art Shubh apologizes to his nerdy friends about not being a more willing Dungeons and Dragons player Pip relives his worst Mario Kart loss Shubh eats a burger...live