When energy executive Paul O’Donoghue was 53, the age many Albertans start looking towards retirement, he instead helped start a tech company with Lucas McCarthy, some 30 years his junior.

That company, Showpass, more than 10 years later, has 100 employees (average age 31) and serves millions of customers with its ticketing and discovery platform for events, activities and things to do.

Now, at age 65, O’Donoghue still can’t imagine retiring.

“When I was in my 40s and 50s, in the energy space, I thought I would retire when I had enough money. That I would golf and just do what I wanted to do,” he says.

But instead, while still working in corporate finance (with an extensive background in raising capital, mergers and acquisitions) he met McCarthy and was drawn into the tech world.

“He

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