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James Lester

Community Sponsor at Sons of Vancouver Distillery

James Lester founded Sons of Vancouver Distillery (North Vancouver), the monthly vodka sponsor for Vancouver AI meetups (six bottles per month for cosmos cocktails). He brings two core philosophies: (1) "Seeds in Bad Ideas" — don't dismiss ideas too quickly, find the kernel, engage with possibility; (2) "Persistence Over Brilliance" — biographies of explorers consistently show persistence as the differentiating tr...