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Mike Lazaridis

@mikelazaridis

Canadian businessman

Building BlackBerry as Founder · Canada

Key facts

Born
1961
Educated at
University of Waterloo

About

Mike Lazaridis is an electrical engineer, born in 1961 in Istanbul. They studied at University of Waterloo.

In context

BlackBerry was founded in 1984 and has no closure on record. Among the 2,147 other companies founded in the 1980s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 18 years.

Contribution

Mike's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.

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