Ex-Canada Pension Plan Investment Board chief executive Mark Machin and a former senior lieutenant are raising a US$500-million growth capital fund to back artificial intelligence startups in Canada and abroad.

Intrepid Growth Partners is excited to release the official sizzle reel for our new podcast, The Derby Mill Series: Intrepid Pioneers of the Next Economy.

For nearly 3,000 years, economic growth averaged about 0.01% per year. Then, around 1750, we redesigned our means of production and growth increased by about 150X to around 1.5% per year. Historians later named that redesign process the Industrial Revolution. The first modern factory — powered, continuous production — of the Industrial Revolution was the Derby Silk Mill.

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