Grantrepreneurs - Swan, Jake
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Nick, a young physician disillusioned with clinical work, moves from small province New Brunswick to big city Vancouver to take a research position with a medical startup, A.I. Plus Womxn's Health Solutions. Nick quickly finds himself working in the company of "Grantrepreneurs" - rogues of the business world who have created a financing model based entirely on the outrageous exploitation of public grant and subsidy programs. When they seek to secure Fisheries and Oceans financing for a koi fountain in their lobby, Nick and his new friends rub elbows with Chinese-Canadian gangsters, famous…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Nick, a young physician disillusioned with clinical work, moves from small province New Brunswick to big city Vancouver to take a research position with a medical startup, A.I. Plus Womxn's Health Solutions. Nick quickly finds himself working in the company of "Grantrepreneurs" - rogues of the business world who have created a financing model based entirely on the outrageous exploitation of public grant and subsidy programs. When they seek to secure Fisheries and Oceans financing for a koi fountain in their lobby, Nick and his new friends rub elbows with Chinese-Canadian gangsters, famous Canadian authors, and even the prime minister himself (in the midst of a cough-syrup-induced existential crisis). It's a lot of fun until someone shows up dead in a decorative water feature. With scalpel-sharp wit, hilarious schemes and generous injections of heart, Jake Swan has written a page-turning, laugh-out-loud, idol-skewering misadventure.
Autorenporträt
Jake Swan is a writer, physician, occasional fisherman and all around dumbass. He is of the unpopular opinion that margarine is superior in both flavour and texture when compared to natural butter. Recently, he gave up eating beef jerky from gas stations after checking his blood pressure. He describes the reading as "Stratospheric," and considers himself fortunate in that neither of his eyeballs actually exploded like eggs in a microwave. While watching the news one evening, Jake saw a story about a protest autonomous zone. In the footage, the protestors were spreading roughly one inch of topsoil on an asphalt parking lot next to a sign reading "Autonomous Zone Community Garden," and therefore he wrote this book. Jake lives in New Brunswick with his wife, Chrissy, their son, Jack, and Stella, their rescue mutt from South America, who's biography would be undoubtedly much more interesting than this one, which Jake, coincidentally, wrote in the third person. He isn't sure how he feels about it.