Today is Canadian Thanksgiving and I wanted to use the occasion to thank my friend Arthur Traviss Cörry for being a part of my life. At 41 Arthur was diagnosed with terminal cancer and doctors were estimating he had somewhere between 6 weeks and 6 months left to live. Unfortunately, the cancer progressed much faster and Arthur passed away on this Saturday morning. This video was supposed to be just a small part of a number of such videos that a few friends of Arthur’s were putting together to tell him “Thank you for being a part of our lives”. The idea was to have some kind of an event where we can tell Arthur – both in person and via our videos, that we are all very thankful for knowing him and that he has been an important part of our life. Unfortunately, things deteriorated faster than anticipated and Arthur didn’t even have the chance to see the videos…
In life Arthur was a vibrant and passionate entrepreneur and a role model for many of us. In death, he has shown himself to be a truly courageous warrior, a stoic philosopher and a graceful human being full of humility and sense of humor. I will never forget the way he handled himself in the face of death and believe that we can all learn something from his very moving last video:
Finally, I will cherish the unique opportunity I had to interview Arthur on his boat and will try to support and popularize his work and ideas:
I have often felt that being located in Toronto, Canada puts me at a bit of a disadvantage with respect to having a futuristic high-tech blog and podcast. Living in Silicon Valley or New York [or a number of cities in Asia and Europe] appears to make it easier to stay at the cutting edge of technology and meet the amazing people pushing it forward. However, after visiting Decentral, I am convinced that there you can meet people who are making things happen and changing the world as we know it. And so I have come to believe that things are changing for the better – not only for Toronto and Canada but also for the world in general. 
Arthur T. Corry has been helping tech companies structure, raise capital, and launch since the beginning of internet commerce. His experience comes from Canada’s West Coast and Silicon Valley. Three years ago, Arthur founded Toronto’s first true Startup Accelerator, building a thriving portfolio of 18 tech startups. Arthur’s tech accelerator program was listed by government studies as one of Canada’s top 6 such programs in 2013, which led to Arthur’s nomination by the Toronto Board of Trade for the Business Excellence Award, as one of the region’s top 30 most influential entrepreneurs. Arthur’s company Rockcorry Venture Partners now creates acceleration programs and curriculums of due diligence for organizations, such as investment firms and angel groups. Arthur is also a managing director and partner in an entirely new kind of venture capital fund, called Decentral. Its focus is on financial technology and the new paradigm of decentralized tech, such as peer-to-peer apps, and bitcoin services.