Coming to — and for — America

Me, just before my Coming to America

I came to the US 25 years ago for my MBA. At the time, I always felt that Canada (and particularly the sleepy hamlet of Toronto that I had grown up in) was too provincial and confining. I wanted to do startup stuff, and get involved in the tech industry, and that meant…America.

But my actual Coming to America was more accidental, and, at least initially, involved much less Sexual Chocolate than the film. I had…