MoovEZ

This Issue of Telling It Like It Is Features: Simon Bullard, Founder of

You’ve had an interesting Entrepreneurial journey, please share that with us and how it inspired MoovEz?

As you get a bit older you look back and try to figure out how you got here. It took me a while to realize I've always had the entrepreneurial bug, just didn’t know it at the time. I was the kid going door-to-door in the winter with a friend shoveling walks for money and renting "lawn care" equipment over university summer break with a few buddies, racing around the city getting as many Spring cleanups done as possible. I’ve always had a hustle on the go but they didn't mean much to me until the dots were connected when I landed my first gig in Beijing at Jinshisong and realized immediately this is where I wanted to be. The creative energy and enthusiasm of the Startup world was immediately infectious.

Waking up every morning feeling like you’re building something or contributing to the greater goal was and is a feeling that keeps

me motivated every day. When I decided to leave Doko in Beijing, I wanted my next Startup to be in Canada. It was time to move on and the idea for MoovEZ started to brew. I was witness to a logistics industry that changed rapidly, seemingly overnight in China, and I thought Canada lagged behind in innovation in this space. Having been in tech logistics for almost 10 years in China, I wanted to use this insight and experience to inject some innovation into the Canadian market.

What is next for MoovEZ?

We've been working on Version 2.0 of our platform and will be launching that along with our mobile apps by mid-late summer. We're also looking to raise our pre-seed round and will be looking to close that over the coming months. With the money raised, we'll look to expand our core team, scale up our operation, grow into new markets and continue to refine our product-market fit.

If you had one piece of advice for a Startup or entrepreneur, what would that be?

Get real gritty, like sandpaper with 1200 grit, and let go of your ego. Founder and CEO both sound fancy on your LinkedIn profile but ultimately, it's up to you to roll your sleeves up and get stuff done. This is a tough road; it'll test your mental fortitude on a daily basis. Imagine the hardest thing you've ever done, now times that by a thousand. You have to be in it for the right reasons, you have to love the process, or there's no point even getting started. That’s maybe not the most uplifting advice but the Startup world has been romanticized in a lot of ways and ultimately it comes down to a lot of hard work and stick-to-itiveness. I can’t see myself doing anything else, but it’s become a part of my DNA, there’s a hunger and fervour to keep building, to see things through to the end, and without that there’s no way I would have made it this far. wemoovez.com