E209 - Current & Critical - Mike Procee, Navigating our Tech Ecosystem with a local AI Start-up
“If you’ve been running a business the same way for the past 20 years, you need entrepreneurship, innovation, and thinking differently.”
Mike noticed a problem - there are over 23M managers on LinkedIn all working in the culture space - and all having different conversations and using different methodologies. So, he co-founded Cratic AI to help culture managers use artificial intelligence and conversations to get better data, giving them a clear understanding of their company’s culture through the lens of things like conscientiousness, openness, friendliness and more. Mike also shares how Calgary’s entrepreneurial spirit works well in large corporations - not just startups - and why he believes start-up programs like Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) and Platform Calgary are our biggest competitive advantage.