Tag: Kirk Simpson

Wave team with Jeff Jones, H&R Block CEO

How can KC get to a $400M+ exit? Hire smart and just survive, says founder of startup acquired by H&R Block

By Tommy Felts / June 19, 2020

A year after Wave’s $405 million acquisition by H&R Block, the company’s co-founder acknowledges the Toronto startup’s story seems like something of a fintech fairytale — with the happy end of one chapter perhaps overshadowing the struggles in the pages before it. “This won’t be true for everybody, but what we found was — just stay…

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