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<v ->Avik, it's great to have you here.</v>

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Thank you for joining.

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<v ->My pleasure.</v>

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<v ->So Avik, you've had probably the most varied career</v>

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of anybody I know, from founder and operator

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of a hockey team, founder of an energy company

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in South America, to an investor,

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to now the CEO of Capital Power,

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and I think I'm missing three or four

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other career steps in there.

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How has that journey shaped who you are

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and positioned you to take on the immense responsibility

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of serving as a public company CEO?

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<v ->One of the things I'm most grateful for</v>

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is in my career, I've always had mentors and bosses

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who have always owned my outcome as much,

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if not more, as I did, and that's what's given me

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the opportunity to have all of these incredible experiences

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and actually be liberated enough

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to go take risk and try new things.

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And so I've been able to surround myself

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with people much smarter, much better than I am,

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and really ride that wave of

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doing great things, creating, building, growing,

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and that's something I put a great deal of value on.

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<v ->Do you ever think about how the actions</v>

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you're taking today will live beyond your tenure as CEO?

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<v ->I think I always think about the future.</v>

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My goal has always been come in

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and orient around a North Star, capture a group of people

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with great ideas and the ambition

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to do great things, and then create a movement.

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Because an idea is nothing but words on a page,

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but if you can catalyze a group of people around it,

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you create something that's much bigger than yourself.

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So for me, it's really about that.

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It's if I can look back on my own career

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and say I was part of something great,

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about building something great, then you've created

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an ecosystem of individuals that all feel the same.

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There's nothing better than that.

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<v ->Avik, there's two things that make your eyes light up.</v>

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One, power markets.

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Two is when

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you talk to me about your family.

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What advice do you have for young people

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that are about to enter the workforce

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based on this phenomenal journey that you've been on?

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<v ->For me, it's absolutely be curious.</v>

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Be curious, engage, have conversations,

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because these types of interactions are irreplaceable.

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That human interaction of talking to people,

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learning from people, being curious enough to ask questions,

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not being afraid to say the stupid thing,

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that, for me, is always the biggest piece of advice,

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which is be curious and be unafraid.

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<v ->Avik, I enjoy every conversation we have.</v>

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This has been no exception.

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Thanks so much for making time for us.

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<v ->Thank you. That was fantastic.</v>