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

YoungUpstarts

Starting as a deckhand delivering cod and turbot from fishermen in Newfoundland and Labrador, over the past forty years, Glen McKay has molded his career into one that focuses on entrepreneurship and leading the growth of companies operating in a range of industries. In 1997, Glen co-founded Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc.,

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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. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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Glen McKay: From Newfoundland Fishing Boat Deckhand to Mining CEO

Hearpreneur

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. At that time, the explosives business operated under the existing Newfoundland Hard-Rok division of MRO Supplies Ltd. Newfoundland Hard Rok Inc.

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