Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 / 2025. Big dreams. Bigger heart. Okay-ish hair. Founder & CEO, @lyonselite @femmefatalem @true_glue
Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2011
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What if Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans actually believe each other?
That’s just one of the parts of You Can See Everything I find really unsettling.
We can’t know their private relationship from a documentary. But it points to something that matters well beyond this couple: the moment supporting your partner turns into protecting them from ever being challenged.
One person says the world has been unfair. The other agrees, because agreeing can feel like love. Over time, questioning the story starts to feel like betrayal.
After 12 years of running a matchmaking agency, I’ve learned “someone who believes in me” is only half of what to look for. The other half is someone who can sit across the kitchen table and say, “I love you, and I think you’re wrong.”
The partner who can’t say that will believe in you all the way down.
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She’s getting ready for a date with a man she’s never met. She’s already changed her dress and bought flats because she’s worried about intimidating him.
He hasn’t asked her to change a thing.
Her ex-boyfriend, however, had plenty to say.
It’s remarkable how long someone can keep influencing your decisions after they’re no longer in your life.
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I Meet a Lot of Jerks. I Don't Think Most of Them Are. emilylyoness.substack.com/p/…
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Your standards don’t just tell me who you want. Sometimes they tell me who you are.
And this is the kind of list I really love working with.
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Emily Lyons retweeted
LinkedIn users have been editing their work histories to add "AI" and remove "DEI".
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Trump had to start a war with Iran to distract us from asking what it says about him in the Epstein files, but that went so badly that he now has to start a beef with Canada to distract us from the war with Iran.
Expect two more years of these.
One of the best quotes I’ve ever heard about relationships: Don’t marry someone expecting them to change. And don’t marry someone expecting them not to.
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Emily Lyons retweeted
Two economists mathematically proved that AI will destroy the economy.
Researchers from Wharton and Boston University published a terryfiying paper called "The AI Layoff Trap."
They mapped out the economic end-game of the AI transition, and it exposes a fatal flaw in competitive capitalism.
When a company replaces a worker with AI, it captures 100% of the wage savings.
But that displaced worker is also a consumer. When they lose their job, they stop buying things.
The company gets all the savings, but the loss of consumer demand is spread across the entire economy.
If there are 20 competitors in a market, a CEO only absorbs 1/20th of the economic damage their layoffs just created.
So every single rational CEO has a mathematical incentive to automate as fast as possible.
They can literally see the cliff approaching, and they still step on the gas.
It triggers an unavoidable Prisoner’s Dilemma. If you don't automate, your competitors will, and they will crush you on price.
It doesn't just hurt workers. It destroys the businesses, too.
The economy gets trapped in an automation arms race. Companies fire their workforce to stay competitive, until the entire consumer base is completely hollowed out.
At the limit, the paper concludes: “Firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.”
And the scariest part?
The researchers mathematically tested every popular fix.
Universal Basic Income? Fails. It raises the living standard but doesn't change the corporate incentive to cut jobs. Retraining? Fails. Worker equity? Fails.
The paper proves that more competition actually makes the collapse happen faster. And "better" AI makes the damage worse.
The only thing that mathematically stops the collapse is a targeted automation tax, forcing companies to pay for the purchasing power they destroy before they automate the job.
Fourteen years sober and I can tell you the hardest part was never saying no to a drink. It was learning to have a terrible moment and not need to escape it. To be scared and stay scared. Angry and stay angry. Heartbroken and stay heartbroken. To lie awake with a brain that would not shut up and nowhere to go except through it. I didn't know it then, but that was the skill I'd use for the rest of my life. When everything is on fire, I don't need to leave the room.
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My sister died at 27 and I think some part of me has been racing the clock ever since.
Build the company. Make the call. Say it now. Do it now, do it now, do it now.
People sometimes ask why I have such a sense of urgency about my life. Because I loved someone who thought she had more time.
She didn't. Fifteen years later, I still don't know what to do with that except live.
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A lot of people stay single because they treat availability as a character flaw. If someone is free on Friday, they must be undesirable. So everyone performs busy and nobody meets anyone.
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The best single people I know aren't on the apps. They quietly opted out years ago and they're who I match for a living. Today's feature:
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He's a chairman with homes in California, Montreal, Toronto, and the Bahamas, and a private plane that turns "let's go to Europe this weekend" into a sentence he actually means. Grown children, no interest in starting over with babies, every interest in building the next chapter with someone remarkable. He doesn't drink.
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Underneath the lifestyle is a man who's spent decades learning that adventure is better when it's shared with someone whose mind keeps pace with his world. Curious? Email [email protected] or fill out a profile here: lyonselite.com/join-our-netw…
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