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“We went from 6 million
bucks a month to zero”
Eran Henig, CEO and Co-Founder of Thriver (Next 36, 2011)
people with very different lived experiences, from different
countries and cultures and backgrounds to bring a different
perspective to project management.
Eran, on the other hand, believes alignment is the key,
especially when it comes to people management. “I think
it doesn’t matter if you play jazz or if it’s an orchestra, but
I think that finally, alignment is key.” It is important for him
that his team feels safe to experiment.
what metrics Maayan and Eran used to measure their own
successes.
Maayan and Eran’s NEXT Canada journey has been filled
with many and diverse learnings. Where for Eran, NEXT
provided a comfortable environment to learn and thrive,
for Maayan, it was constant discomfort, readying her for the
often harsh world of entrepreneurship. Reza summarized
both their experiences as ultimately becoming comfortable
with discomfort, something he tries to get his students to
imbibe.
Eran explained Thrive has been onboarding about a
hundred new clients every month - something they had
never done before. He credited the transformational
journey to offering a completely different product with
Thrive. They were focusing on bringing in bigger clients
and bigger names. With that, their team has grown to 50
people, 17 of whom were hired over the last four months.
For Maayan, it was the way Access Now was able to transform
the relationship that people have with accessibility, and the
way that relationship further transformed the economy
from the perspective of inaccessible and inclusive products
and services.
“We have a platform that shares information about the
accessibility of indoor and outdoor spaces, using artificial
intelligence to understand the missing information about
accessibility. We have shared information in 35 countries
and worked with some of the most amazing organizations
from Trans Canada Trails, Parks Canada, Bell, CIBC, Google,
Microsoft - some really big players who are showing
leadership. Partnership is one of the most important KPIs
because it helps to transform the narrative from everyone
on their own, to an entire industry.”
Having engaged thousands of people with disabilities to
share their own information, AccessNow is well on the way
to having an unforeseen level of positive impact. Maayan’s
relentlessness also reflects in her team - a group of fifteen,
diverse, talented individuals, who are expected to take on
responsibility from day one.
“I don’t like to walk people through the process. Just go
do it, figure it out and then come back and then let’s see
what you built.” She credits the style of leadership to the
way she learnt things growing up- jumping in the deep
end and learning how to swim. She also believes in hiring
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Having faced very different challenges, and overcome a
myriad of difficulties, what makes Maayan and Eran similar
is their relentless nature and their undaunting spirit their belief that when you have a vision, and are ready to
sacrifice your time and comfort to pursue it, you are bound
to ultimately succeed.
REZA SATCHU
Co-Founder and Board Member
NEXT Canada
Founder and Managing Partner
Alignvest Management Corporation
MAAYAN ZIV
CEO & Founder of AccessNow
Next 36, 2016
ERAN HENIG
CEO and Co-Founder of Thriver
Next 36, 2011
JASKARAN CHAUHAN
Feature Article Author
NEXT Canada
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