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Rural Canada is quietly losing the professionals that hold communities together, and nobody is talking about it. In this episode, Cody sits down with Albert Lin, Partner and CIO at Northview Law and Lead Investor at dCarbonVC, to unpack one of the most overlooked infrastructure crises in the country.
Albert's path is unlike anyone else in the room: he started as a cancer research scientist, moved into private equity, became Senior Vice President of Investments at Brookfield Asset Management where he closed over $30 billion in M\&A transactions, and then walked away from institutional finance to build a regional law firm designed to solve the rural professional shortage.
In this conversation, we cover the broken economics of small-town professional practice, how AI is actually being deployed inside law firms right now (not to replace lawyers, but to eliminate the administrative weight underneath), the real state of climate tech investing, and why only 3% of people are using AI effectively in their businesses.
This is a candid, no-fluff conversation about systems, incentives, and what it actually takes to rebuild something that matters.
Topics covered in this episode:
, Why young professionals won't move to rural Canada
, How AI is changing law firm workflows (Projects Argo, Wyatt & Caspian)
, Climate tech investing: what's ready now vs. what's still hype
, Data privacy and why ChatGPT is not a legal-grade tool
, The $30B M\&A lesson every business owner needs to hear
, Why only 3% of people use AI effectively
Guest links:
🔗 Northview Law: https://www.northviewlaw.com/
🔗 dCarbonVC: https://dcarbonvc.com/
Watch the full video episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80CmnS6GFKE
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