Catherine Dahl: From Olive Garden to $100M Exit

Catherine Dahl's path to founding Beanworks, an accounts payable automation platform that sold to Quadient for north of $100 million, wound through hospitality, accounting, and a stint at the CBC before landing in tech. In this episode, Catherine walks Sam and Colin through her unconventional road into entrepreneurship, including how an early investor pulled funding overnight and left her team scrambling, only for a small group of them to refuse to give up and relaunch as Beanworks from scratch. She shares what it takes to lead a company when you're not the technical founder, how she used every inch of her network to stay alive, and why knowing what you don't know might be the most important skill in the room.