Canadian entrepreneurs are moving to US to start companies. Here’s why

Of those founders, 88 per cent were educated at Canadian universities, including the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto and McGill University. Among the most prominent Canadian entrepreneurs to decamp to the U.S. are OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who attended University of Toronto, and Uber founder Garrett Camp, who grew up in Calgary. Others include SpaceX’s Elon Musk, who still retains Canadian citizenship, Anthropic’s Chris Olah and eBay’s Jeff Skoll.