# Cédric Beaudoin Cédric Beaudoin (Senior Associate, impact and technology investing, Investissement Québec (IQ)) was a guest on AI with Sach, a podcast hosted by Sacha Gucciardo in Montréal. ## Episode 26: Investing in AI and Impact: Building Resilient Startups in Quebec (May 2025) A Quebec venture investor explains how modular AI, fast iteration and resilience shape the startups he backs, and why everyone should talk about AI. Page: https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/26-investing-in-ai-and-impact-building-resilient-star/ > it's it's probably having something that is modular in some way where there's a pieces that is is going to plug into your software that's going to be make it a lot more efficient but if at some point something else comes up like six weeks six months later you can just unplug that and plug something else right > — at 13:30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=810s) > i think some people would probably disagree with the fact that ai is just a feature of every company now it it just is you're doing hardware ai you're doing software ai it's not something that you can just go without it's just not > — at 22:42 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=1362s) > every time I speak with an entrepreneur, I always tell them that they're crazy. I would never do that. It's so much sacrifice. You need to have grit. You need to have so many qualities that I'm not remotely close to having. > — at 1:05 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=65s) > they ship something. It might fail. It might not, but you're going to fix it afterwards. Right. Like the only reason why you're doing a startup is because there's few people solving a very large problems. And because there's so few people, well, you can iterate pretty quickly. > — at 7:52 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=472s) > a lot of people saw that wave coming and some people actually are surfing the wave right now and I think the only thing that the cohort from next AI needs to do is to get on somebody else's surfboard and and serve the wave with them right > — at 9:51 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=591s) > I wouldn't say it's a boring business but it's it's not like estate planning it's not something that you want to do right you need to plan for something that is going to happen and then that thing is happening you're dead because it's dead right so you nobody really wants to do that right > — at 15:16 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=916s) > they were looking at the assets on their management that this generational wealth is going to be transferred to somebody else so there's around 40 billion dollars that is going to transfer from one hand to another in the next like 10 years which is a lot of money it's just so much money but like the boomers had a lot of money > — at 16:16 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=976s) > if somebody pitches me that i 100 percent invest but you need to be a middleman between the two so you want to incentivize contractors to work with suppliers and suppliers to get contractors to work with them > — at 19:59 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=1199s) > the technology that i foresee to be something that is mostly disruptive is just an ai that is going to allow us to have more free time so not add more work but have more leisure > — at 24:12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=1452s) > a lot of people don't want to talk about ai because they don't they're not phd or they're not data scientists and they're not come come saw a major but i think at some point it's going to touch 100 of the people so i think everybody needs to just talk about it > — at 25:11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=1511s) > everybody just needs to have just a small conversation and and stop talking about like agi and all these stuff that is very scary just focus on the things that day-to-day kind of conversation that you're you're going to have > — at 25:51 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=1551s) > now it's changing a bit because of course you need to have those engineers you need to have those people that understand the code that understand pretty much everything inside of the code but they don't have to do the grunt work > — at 12:52 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=772s) > i think all the great talents are going there like all the great talents are going there and i think them buying twitter was of course like it's it's it's kind of a shady mood right like everybody's buying everybody kind of a but but in the end there's so much data in their human data and authentic human data that it's very scary what they actually can do with that > — at 21:56 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFjfd8UE9M&t=1316s)