The result was keep. Article is found to satisfy the requirements of WP:GNG. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 14:58, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
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Jayson Gaignard felt like he’d been sucker punched. The credit card statement just didn’t add up. He was reading a massive list of transactions charged to his online ticket company, Tickets Canada, and he didn’t remember any of them.
There was a good reason why: He never authorized them. His business partner fled the country and racked up more than $120,000 in tickets on his credit card, selling them under the table and leaving Gaignard holding the bill.
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In just over a month, Gaignard went from $5 million a year in sales to a defunct company and $250,000 in debt for which he was personally responsible since he’d been using his own credit cards to fund most of the company’s transactions. To further increase the pressure, he was raising a daughter born just four months earlier and preparing to get married in just over a month. “There were so many moving parts, and I felt like I was just spinning out of control,” he recalls.
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Fast forward three years later and now 30-year-old Gaignard is no longer broke but debt-free and running sold-out MastermindTalks events, an elite, invitation-only summit for entrepreneurs that is designed to connect and amplify the networks of world-class people while also helping founders work on themselves that connect world-class entrepreneurs with invaluable experts. But to say it was easy would be a joke.
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It’s hard not to giggle when you open the door to find a fully liveried butler — especially when he looks like Jayson Gaignard. The founder of VIP Services Inc., a Toronto personal concierge service, Mr. Gaignard is tall, lanky and only 22, and dressed in his company’s uniform he looks like a teenager trick-or-treating on Halloween. But he’s all business and clearly at my service from first greeting. “I’m Jayson. What can we do for you today?”
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Mr. Gaignard reports that when he started VIP three years ago, there were just two other companies in the Toronto area; as of late summer, there were almost 40.
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Jayson Gaignard
Gaignard is the founder of Mastermind Talks, an invite-only conference for entrepreneurs which has attracted some big names, from Four-Hour Workweek author Tim Ferriss (also listed below) to WSJ bestselling author James Altucher.
Gaignard is also the author of the Amazon bestseller Mastermind Dinners: Build Lifelong Relationships by Connecting Experts, Influencers, and Linchpins, which details Gaignard’s process for connecting with influential people you admire by bringing them together in group dinners, a strategy which he credits in part for helping him to recover from a debilitating depression following the failure of a prior business.
Prior to founding Mastermind Talks, Gaignard founded an online event ticketing company in his native Canada. He also hosts the Mastermind Talks podcast, where he shares stories and interviews entrepreneurs about relationship-building and networking.
A recent tweet: “You need to surround yourself with people who are batteries and not black holes.”
Cunard (talk) 06:19, 7 January 2016 (UTC)