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The BetaKit Podcast Channel — 208 episodes
Cory Doctorow on using AI without letting AI use you
How Dominion Dynamics is building Canada's first line of Arctic defence
Minister Evan Solomon on Canada's AI strategy, sovereignty, and social media
Cohere's Nick Frosst on sovereign AI and Star Trek
Physical AI and economic nationalism at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
AI sovereignty & defence tech at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
How Toronto Tech Week became Canada's largest grassroots tech event
Harjit Sajjan reports for duty
Evaluating Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy
How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
How to fix Canadian VC
How to fix Canada's Start-up Visa
Is BDC too big to change?
An insider's take on Canada's AI task force report
Why Y Combinator cut Canada out
TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can't clean up
The Canadian company solving AI's latency problem
The future is a four-day workweek
The biggest tech questions of 2026
The biggest tech stories of 2025
Canada's job market sucks for Gen Z
Rogers v. Rogers is Canada's real-life Succession story
Canada's AI ambitions with Minister Evan Solomon
How OpenText went all-in on AI
It's 'Valley or Bust' for Canada's young entrepreneurs
Dominion Dynamics' CEO thinks defence is a "generational opportunity" for Canadian entrepreneurs
Budget 2025: "cautiously optimistic"
What the AWS outage reveals about Canada's digital sovereignty
Why Canada doesn't buy Canadian tech
Can Canada build its own social network?
Are Canadian entrepreneurs willing to let their old companies die?
Tailscale's CEO has an idea "worth billions" for AI startups
Why Canada's defence tech sector is suddenly exploding
Amber Mac wants parents to know their kids are talking to AI
Are Canadians ready for AI-powered life insurance?
AI is changing startup math with Ripple Ventures' Matt Cohen
The former Meta employee trying to stop Canada's AI brain drain
What can talking to AI teach us?
How Canada can be a leader in space (and save the world)
The living history of Canadian tech with Phil Telio
'Canada's edge in applied AI' with Nvidia and Waabi leaders
Why Canada's prime minister is talking about quantum tech with Xanadu's Christian Weedbrook
Ambition made in Canada with Shopify, Cohere, and Wealthsimple
What keeps Bluesky's head of trust and safety up at night?
The stories of Canadian tech's Most Ambitious
Summer reading list: The Subversive Marketing Handbook
InBC's Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC "could be healthier"
Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canada's AI strategy requires customers
The Canadian engineer trying to fix the internet's original sin
Why Faire's co-founder wants to bring Silicon Valley's DNA to Canada
Half of the internet is bots and they're feeding you lies
2025's angel investor of the year has a plan for Canadian tech
How does an online car retailer survive a trade war?
How Toronto Tech Week plans to host 10,000 people this June
Eric Migicovsky's crazy journey to relaunch Pebble
Katherine Homuth revisited
Canadian foodtech has a scale-up problem
Cohere commands attention, Apple Intelligence delays, plus a vibe coding PSA
An election primer on what Canadian innovators need
What is Build Canada trying to construct?
Rejecting the rejection of DEIA with AccessNow's Maayan Ziv
How is Canadian tech responding to the trade war?
AI's new moat with Coveo's Louis Têtu
Is Canada a secret video game powerhouse?
Why Alistair Croll wants Canadian startups to be more evil
SRTX's Katherine Homuth wants to solve for everything
Social media's midlife crisis with Amber Mac
The biggest tech questions of 2025
2025 tech predictions: embrace chaos
The biggest tech stories of 2024
Lessons in leadership, hiring, and AI from SAAS NORTH 2024
Mama don't take my Google Chrome away
Why Sampler failed, according to its founder
Inovia's Chris Arsenault on the state of Canadian software
Addressing Canada's speed of financial innovation
Alexis Ohanian and Matt Damon can help Xatoms clean water around the world
Clio's Jack Newton can build another Shopify without building like Shopify
Does Canada have the leverage to regulate Big Tech?
Can Canada successfully scale AI companies?
Can Wealthsimple build Canada's largest financial institution?
What Canada can learn from AI use in South Africa
Evolving Canada's AI strategy with CIFAR's Elissa Strome
Pablo Srugo wanted to be "insanely rich." It killed his startup.
Harley Finkelstein wants Canadian entrepreneurs to ignore the "bullshit"
AI roundtable: Hugging Face, Zapier, Tenstorrent (and more)
CEO roundtable: Shopify, Wealthsimple, Lightspeed, Koho, Ecobee
Canadian Web3 regulations & Coinbase's year in review
What Vault's co-founder learned at Revolut
What feels true for VCs and founders with Sand Hill North's Ryan Henry
Why has developer hiring slowed? (AMA episode)
Can video games teach kids math?
Québec is executing its innovation plan. Will it pay off?
Why Gen X and Gen Z both want keyboards on their smartphone
This deep tech PE firm was drawn to Canada by the data
How Web Summit Vancouver came to be with Casey Lau
WWDC: Did Apple just kill your AI company?
How Dax Dasilva plans to get Lightspeed to $1 billion in revenue
Can this Canadian company make a splash in plant-based fish?
Xanadu's Christian Weedbrook is raising another $200 million to build a quantum data centre
Gradient Ventures' Darian Shirazi on where AI value will accrue
Tobi Lütke finally comes on the podcast
How Simple Ventures plans to fill a Canadian entrepreneurship gap
Wealthsimple and Koho CEOs talk productivity, competition, and building
#Budget2024 emergency pod
What made you first love tech?
Is Québec Canada's quantum province?
Can video games teach kids math?
Cory Doctorow's new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo!
Alexis Gay is (still) the funniest person in tech
Float's CEO on bridging the spending and software divide
How to fix SR&ED
After Ecobee, Stuart Lombard has no regrets
Koho's CEO on going from challenger bank to actual bank
Taylor Swift and the Apple Vision Pro are the biggest tech stories of the year (so far)
Untether AI's new CEO is here for global scale
The war against tech enshittification
Maybe the Rogers-Shaw merger won't lower prices after all
The biggest tech questions of 2024
Inside Canada's entrant in the global AI hardware battle
The Canadian YouTuber who killed NFTs
2023 tech year in review
Why is the Start-up Visa program struggling?
What happened to OpenView and will Canada see zombie funds?
#CDNtech talks AI disruption and the state of SaaS
The future of OMERS Ventures with Michael Yang
Why are there 100,000 fewer Canadian entrepreneurs? (LIVE at SAAS NORTH)
Buffer's Chief Product Officer on how it connects a fractured internet
Open banking is dead, Techno-Optimists want a war
Wealthsimple's Hanna Zaidi on the "lack of political will" harming FinTech innovation
Why Korean car makers want Tenstorrent's AI hardware
Exploring the forgotten history of Canadian venture capital
Hugging Face's Sasha Luccioni on the ethical and environmental impacts of AI
AI regulation is coming but Tobi Lütke is not "EFRAID"
As the world goes passwordless, does 1Password go B2B?
Can Waze's former CEO build a social network from scratch?
How "pirate" entrepreneur Lloyed Lobo kicked his self-destructive habits
Parental leave requirements for Canadian entrepreneurs make no sense
VC extravaganza: fundraising, "shitty" behaviour, mannequin startups & more
Alexis Gay is the funniest person in tech
#CDNtech talks VC risk, due diligence, and the AI hype cycle
Do Canadian entrepreneurs take risks? (AMA episode)
Jesse Wente wants Canada to "tax the hell" out of Big Tech, but he's open to cutting deals
LIVE from Startupfest!
The death of the Girlboss with Chelsea Fagan (The Financial Diet)
Canada's Commissioner of Competition needs more than a badge and a gun
Alberta tech is hungry
Paddy Cosgrave is not forcing you to come to Collision
Apple's Vision Pro won't make the metaverse happen
The Collision conversation is a microcosm for Canadian tech
Canada is in a health care crisis. What's the prescription?
A wake for BuzzFeed, Gawker, Vice with CANADALAND's Jonathan Goldsbie
What's next for Shopify?
Do the feds have an innovation strategy? (AMA episode)
YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) on internet grifts and how he hunts them
Revisiting BlackBerry's extraordinary rise and spectacular fall
Scale AI's COO explains how Canada can build an AI-powered economy
Is Canada ready for an EV future?
Was RenoRun abandoned by investors or just another mannequin startup?
Ask John Ruffolo Anything: SVB fallout, VC groupthink, government dependence & more
Michelle Scarborough explains why BDC is thinking bigger with Thrive Platform
Raine Maida and Senator Colin Deacon discuss Big Tech's control over digital creators (and the news)
Dan Breznitz unmuzzled: Canada Innovation Corporation architect explains how we got here
Panache's Chris Neumann on FounderFuel's return and "shitty" VC behaviour (AMA episode)
Generative AI will test what's worse: biased data or user bad faith
The Indigo hack is bad. Will AI make cyber threats worse?
What comes after the attention economy?
Why I killed my startup
Can Amber Mac explain WTF is happening in tech right now?
Stephen Marche on how generative AI will transform academia (and everything else)
A Web3 vibe check with Round13's Satraj Bambra
AI regulation is coming. What's Canada's approach?
ChatGPT disruption and self-certified investor pilots (AMA episode)
Year in review: biggest tech stories of 2022, 2023 predictions
Year in review: Kim Furlong talks VCCI and what comes next for Canadian venture
Bessemer, Georgian, OMERS VCs discuss the state of the market
Dissecting the anatomy of a #CDNtech seed round
#CDNtech talks down rounds, disasters, and "recipes for failure"
Will some Canadian tech companies die during the downturn? (LIVE at SAAS NORTH)
Waverly and the broken internet
Making future bets on Shopify, Wealthsimple & the metaverse (AMA episode)
Watching Alexis Gay is the most fun you can have while quiet quitting your tech job
Boom to bust cycles & why there's no Canadian techlash
How has the tech downturn affected founder mental health?
Twitch is dying and Devin Nash knows why
Is Real Ventures done? Is BDC just getting started? (AMA episode)
Exploring the city Google couldn't buy
Canadian tech is (still!) hiring
Learning from embedded FinTech leaders at Traction
How GrowthX found product-market fit across Canada's accelerators
The Global Talent Stream needs streamlining
Can FinTech help Canadian Muslims with financial access?
Tracking the tech downturn across Canada with data
Shopify stumbling, Rogers resilient, recession fundraising (AMA episode)
Mark McQueen thinks it's a great time to have a chequebook
Solving the lack of access to capital for Indigenous entrepreneurs
Why Startupfest is a tech company now
Inside Anthony Lacavera's fight for Freedom Mobile
Collision AMA: a tech downturn vibe check
Collision's Paddy Cosgrave talks Shopify, tech downturns, and meaningful connections
What's behind the explosion in acquisition entrepreneurship?
Why Canadian tech founders need better mentors
VCCI don't lose that funding + tech's bubble is bursting (AMA episode)
Should politicians use Twitter + Ontario's election budget
OMERS Ventures' Damien Steel wants you to stop reading tech headlines
How do you measure culture in the remote & hybrid workplace?
Can the feds build a talent strategy for digital nomads?
Do Canadian FinTechs want bank kickbacks or competition?
Quiet tech towns & Twitter's Elon Musk Problem (AMA episode)