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Zoholics events are super interesting, we have been to many. You should go to the next one near you. We were Gold Sponsors at Zoholics Canada 2023 - we had a lot of fun and learned a lot.

Very proud to be immortalized in Paul Hoang's IB Business and Management textbook (3rd Edition, IBID Press). Everyone rush to your nearest bookstore and buy every copy in stock! I'm in unit 3.7

It is no secret that a myth exists that "the cloud is not secure". The unfamiliar often breeds fear and mistrust, but the difficult question to ask yourself remains.

Anyone reading this who has a child may often ask themselves, what will the world be like when little junior is my age? And while the response to this perennial question is impossible to know, it seems to fuel most of us to do everything we can to "best prepare them for what's to come".

In a past lifetime, I was an IB Business Management teacher. I remember vividly that in my introduction to this lengthy two-year course I would kick off by telling my new students.

"Where it used to take over 75 years of building a company to get onto the S&P 500, today the average age of those companies is less than 10 years. Complacency, and a failure to innovate is a fundamental risk to business, and IT systems are a key part of enabling innovation." - Google.

It is easy to find pessimistic statistics and gloomy projections on how the vast majority of startups are doomed to be devoured by their more established competitors. These are generally true. I'm not gonna lie to you, Cloud Lion is still very much a fresh startup. Just shy of 5 months old, skeptics would suggest "Cloud Cub" as a more honest description.

Having gone to three major ZOHOLICS events (Pleasanton, Austin and Montreal) I was ready to try something new. After enduring several weeks of -20C weather, a friend who is a Zoho Premium Partner in Colombia suggested I go to ZOHOLICS Ciudad de Mexico (last week), the decision was an easy one.

We often make elaborate and well thought-out plans, but life sometimes takes unexpected turns - it is what we do in these situations that ultimately shapes our success.

What a week! My head is still spinning from the sensory overload that these increasingly-massive Google conferences have become. So much to share - I will try be concise.

In our current context, where more and more employees, educators, and students need to work remotely, cloud technologies developed by Google, Zoho, and Microsoft enable businesses and schools to stay connected and productive more than ever before.

These last twelve months have felt like one long Google Meet call. Simultaneously dragging on while flying by. Crazy times we're living in. This warrants a quick pause to reflect.