Sarah Paterson, Founder & CEO of Travel Start-up, Jetsplitz

The Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast

Episode #7 Jetsplitz

One day, ‘fly-sharing’ or ‘jet-splitting’ might be everyday vocabulary, as common as Uber’s ‘ride-sharing’ or AirBnB. In this episode of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast, Co-Hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar sit down with the Founder of Jetsplitz, Sarah Paterson, to talk about her business, her entrepreneurial journey and her sources of inspiration. Jetsplitz, a certified Aboriginal Business, is on a mission to make transportation systems more accessible, efficient and sustainable. "Hopefully with Jetsplitz we're changing the narrative on what Indigenous people can do and where you're going in life,” Sarah says. “And for females, you can be a techy as well."

Themes we encounter during this episode include:

• The private and charter jet side of transportation systems
• The carbon footprint and unsolved problem of dead legs and empty seats
• Confidence-building, graduating from Harvard, teaching yourself to code
• On female founders and Indigenous women in tech, then and now
• Attracting Indigenous talent, developing a skills pipeline from under-represented groups
• Uber and AirBnB case studies and comparisons
• ‘Fly-sharing’ during the pandemic
• Parents as mentors
• Sarah Blakely
• Balancing parenting, life and business.

Acknowledgments:

Jetsplitz secured $25,000 in matching, performance-based seed funding from NCFDC's thriveFORWARD initiative, with the support of FedDev Ontario and the Government of Canada's Jobs and Growth Fund (JGF).

The Executive Producer of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is Robert Washburn. Special thanks to NCFDC’s Victoria Pichler and John Hayden. This project is made possible with the support of FedDev Ontario and the Government of Canada.

Quick Links and References:

• Jetsplitz official website.
• Positive Parenting Solutions.
• Sarah Blakely Founder of Spanx (bio via Forbes’ America’s Self-Made Women, Masterclass profile, or Wikipedia entry).
• NCFDC’s thriveFORWARD initiative and portfolio.

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