Hargreaves, who was head of corporate affairs at San Francisco carbon-credit firm Patch, is the inaugural CEO of the entrepreneur-led effort to influence policy. Build Canada, which started as a pop-up volunteer initiative ahead of the last federal election, will now be a permanent organization with chapters across the country. (The Logic)

Talking point: Hargreaves and Daniel Debow, former Shopify executive and Build Canada board chair, announced the news on stage at a Toronto Tech Week event Tuesday. The pair said Build Canada will move beyond publishing policy memos written mostly by tech founders to hosting in-person and online events and funding projects, in what Hargreaves described as a “nation-wide builder movement.” The organization is also open-sourcing work it’s done to track government promises and spending so others can replicate it and improve on it.