March 24, 2016

Business trip to MTL!

So today I am in MTL! I am here until Wednesday evening to help out their operations here. 

I flew in the morning today and quickly took a cab to the office at 51 Sherbrooke West. The foodora office here is in a shared space with other companies.  it is an old Victorian building refurbished with modern and contemporary decor.  In the first floor,  there is a Cafe with wicker chairs spawled about. It has a really hipster startup vibe.  Really digging their space! 

In terms of my role here I am mainly helping my counter part Faris who does courier management here. 

As soon as I arrived we got to work.  On-boarding  10 people for working with Foodora.  Luckily the bags we shipped out on Friday arrived in the nick of time. We were able to get all couriers set up today as a result. 

In terms of the office,  there is Sandy the city manager.  Leo and Andreas in sales.  Ivan,  Elie, Faris and some other people I didn't get to meet today.  All really cool people.  Ivan actually spent 18 years in China and can speak perfect Chinese.  Andreas is one of the partners of O Noir the restaurant with the blind wait staff and you dine in the dark!  We might grab a bite there tomorrow!

It was a busy day today since I only arrived in the afternoon due to a flight delay.  So this evening I only got out of the office around 7:30pm.

My friends Valerie and Pierre are in Montreal.  I met them when I was in Munich and we went to beer halls together and got merry along with a bunch of other tourists.

I am waiting for them right now in a MCD.  Going to go grab some drinks in a bit and catch up 😊. 

Peace from MTL.

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