Alumnus entrepreneur started young, then built big

Waterloo Engineering alumnus Andrew D’Souza (BASc ’08, systems design engineering) got an early start as an entrepreneur.

He delivered newspapers, mowed lawns and walked dogs for his neighbours as a boy, then moved up to part-time jobs to save for university so he wouldn’t rack up debt.

Flash forward 13 years since he earned his degree and D’Souza, whose family immigrated to Canada from India, is now the co-founder and CEO of Clearco, a Toronto-based company that has invested $2.2 billion in thousands of e-commerce companies.

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