Last week we spoke to Co-Founder and CEO Meti Basiri of ApplyBoard, a genuine unicorn. It was pretty cool - not gonna lie. And you know it was a live episode because I even got a little star-struck. What does one say to a paper billionaire?

For our show today, Chris and I deep dive into some of the biggest points made by Meti. Are 25% of all unicorns founded by immigrants? Is dealing with work colleagues the same if they also happen to be your brother? How common are unicorns anyway? All this and more on today’s episode of Startup Different.

For our first episode of Season 4 we met a unicorn. We weren't trippin', but there was a collision involved - the Collision Conference held in Toronto Canada this year. We interviewed ApplyBoard CEO Meti Basiri live at the show.

Meti founded ApplyBoard with his two other brothers. After facing many challenges and obstacles on their own study abroad journeys, the Basiri brothers saw an opportunity to break down barriers and democratize education. Together they created ApplyBoard to make their dream to educate the world a reality. Now ApplyBoard is estimated to be worth over $4Billion.

And we're off! It's season 4 of Startup Different.

In our fourth episode of the Big Data for Small Companies series, and the finale of season 3, Tom McDonell of HazTrack Inc. is here. Tom is the CEO at HazTrack Inc., an industrial IoT startup based in Calgary and Saskatoon. HazTrack helps Oil and Gas and Waste Management companies run their operations more efficiently with best-in-class hardware and software. He's here today and we're looking forward to going deep on data.