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[INTERVIEW] Glen McKay, Newfoundland Business Leader, Co-Founder of Newfoundland Hard-Rok, Inc.

YoungUpstarts

With Foss and Phelan taking care of Newfoundland Hard-Rok’s operations and Glen looking after the daily finance and administration of the company, over the past roughly thirty years, Newfoundland Hard-Rok has become a leading explosives manufacturer and drilling blasting provider in the Newfoundland and Labrador area and on Baffin Island.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Glen McKay: From Newfoundland Fishing Boat Deckhand to Mining CEO

Hearpreneur

Newfoundland’s Glen McKay has had a long and successful career in several industries, including construction, finance and mining. acting as a board member and shareholder until the company’s eventual sale in 2017. In 1997, McKay co-founded junior mineral resource company, Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. Mt Cu and 19.4

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