[Dan42]

> If Montreal weren’t in Quebec, it would be an unstoppable startup scene.

I'm really puzzled by that statement. I don't see Quebec as having anything particularly different from other provinces that is harmful to startups. French? Everybody in Montreal speaks English anyway, and developing i18n software is super-trivial if you do it from the start; not something that would impact startup velocity in any meaningful way.

Or was this meant the other way around? That Quebec founders are disadvantaged in the same way that black and female founders are disadvantaged in SV?

[HDMI_Cable]

Honestly, from what I've seen, people really are just too scared to speak French. People will pick Toronto or Vancouver over Montreal, mostly because of the language.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that Quebecois are disadvantaged, maybe except for the fact that anglo VCs will mainly try and fund anglo startups? Being bilingual is a big perk in Canada, so many from Montreal might have a leg up in that sense. But I could be wrong though.