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The BetaKit Podcast Channel — 199 episodes

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Evaluating Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy

2

How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant

3

How to fix Canadian VC

4

How to fix Canada's Start-up Visa

5

Is BDC too big to change?

6

An insider's take on Canada's AI task force report

7

Why Y Combinator cut Canada out

8

TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can't clean up

9

The Canadian company solving AI's latency problem

10

The future is a four-day workweek

11

The biggest tech questions of 2026

12

The biggest tech stories of 2025

13

Canada's job market sucks for Gen Z

14

Rogers v. Rogers is Canada's real-life Succession story

15

Canada's AI ambitions with Minister Evan Solomon

16

How OpenText went all-in on AI

17

It's 'Valley or Bust' for Canada's young entrepreneurs

18

Dominion Dynamics' CEO thinks defence is a "generational opportunity" for Canadian entrepreneurs

19

Budget 2025: "cautiously optimistic"

20

What the AWS outage reveals about Canada's digital sovereignty

21

Why Canada doesn't buy Canadian tech

22

Can Canada build its own social network?

23

Are Canadian entrepreneurs willing to let their old companies die?

24

Tailscale's CEO has an idea "worth billions" for AI startups

25

Why Canada's defence tech sector is suddenly exploding

26

Amber Mac wants parents to know their kids are talking to AI

27

Are Canadians ready for AI-powered life insurance?

28

AI is changing startup math with Ripple Ventures' Matt Cohen

29

The former Meta employee trying to stop Canada's AI brain drain

30

What can talking to AI teach us?

31

How Canada can be a leader in space (and save the world)

32

The living history of Canadian tech with Phil Telio

33

'Canada's edge in applied AI' with Nvidia and Waabi leaders

34

Why Canada's prime minister is talking about quantum tech with Xanadu's Christian Weedbrook

35

Ambition made in Canada with Shopify, Cohere, and Wealthsimple

36

What keeps Bluesky's head of trust and safety up at night?

37

The stories of Canadian tech's Most Ambitious

38

Summer reading list: The Subversive Marketing Handbook

39

InBC's Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC "could be healthier"

40

Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canada's AI strategy requires customers

41

The Canadian engineer trying to fix the internet's original sin

42

Why Faire's co-founder wants to bring Silicon Valley's DNA to Canada

43

Half of the internet is bots and they're feeding you lies

44

2025's angel investor of the year has a plan for Canadian tech

45

How does an online car retailer survive a trade war?

46

How Toronto Tech Week plans to host 10,000 people this June

47

Eric Migicovsky's crazy journey to relaunch Pebble

48

Katherine Homuth revisited

49

Canadian foodtech has a scale-up problem

50

Cohere commands attention, Apple Intelligence delays, plus a vibe coding PSA

51

An election primer on what Canadian innovators need

52

What is Build Canada trying to construct?

53

Rejecting the rejection of DEIA with AccessNow's Maayan Ziv

54

How is Canadian tech responding to the trade war?

55

AI's new moat with Coveo's Louis Têtu

56

Is Canada a secret video game powerhouse?

57

Why Alistair Croll wants Canadian startups to be more evil

58

SRTX's Katherine Homuth wants to solve for everything

59

Social media's midlife crisis with Amber Mac

60

The biggest tech questions of 2025

61

2025 tech predictions: embrace chaos

62

The biggest tech stories of 2024

63

Lessons in leadership, hiring, and AI from SAAS NORTH 2024

64

Mama don't take my Google Chrome away

65

Why Sampler failed, according to its founder

66

Inovia's Chris Arsenault on the state of Canadian software

67

Addressing Canada's speed of financial innovation

68

Alexis Ohanian and Matt Damon can help Xatoms clean water around the world

69

Clio's Jack Newton can build another Shopify without building like Shopify

70

Does Canada have the leverage to regulate Big Tech?

71

Can Canada successfully scale AI companies?

72

Can Wealthsimple build Canada's largest financial institution?

73

What Canada can learn from AI use in South Africa

74

Evolving Canada's AI strategy with CIFAR's Elissa Strome

75

Pablo Srugo wanted to be "insanely rich." It killed his startup.

76

Harley Finkelstein wants Canadian entrepreneurs to ignore the "bullshit"

77

AI roundtable: Hugging Face, Zapier, Tenstorrent (and more)

78

CEO roundtable: Shopify, Wealthsimple, Lightspeed, Koho, Ecobee

79

Canadian Web3 regulations & Coinbase's year in review

80

What Vault's co-founder learned at Revolut

81

What feels true for VCs and founders with Sand Hill North's Ryan Henry

82

Why has developer hiring slowed? (AMA episode)

83

Can video games teach kids math?

84

Québec is executing its innovation plan. Will it pay off?

85

Why Gen X and Gen Z both want keyboards on their smartphone

86

This deep tech PE firm was drawn to Canada by the data

87

How Web Summit Vancouver came to be with Casey Lau

88

WWDC: Did Apple just kill your AI company?

89

How Dax Dasilva plans to get Lightspeed to $1 billion in revenue

90

Can this Canadian company make a splash in plant-based fish?

91

Xanadu's Christian Weedbrook is raising another $200 million to build a quantum data centre

92

Gradient Ventures' Darian Shirazi on where AI value will accrue

93

Tobi Lütke finally comes on the podcast

94

How Simple Ventures plans to fill a Canadian entrepreneurship gap

95

Wealthsimple and Koho CEOs talk productivity, competition, and building

96

#Budget2024 emergency pod

97

What made you first love tech?

98

Is Québec Canada's quantum province?

99

Cory Doctorow's new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo!

100

Alexis Gay is (still) the funniest person in tech

101

Float's CEO on bridging the spending and software divide

102

How to fix SR&ED

103

After Ecobee, Stuart Lombard has no regrets

104

Koho's CEO on going from challenger bank to actual bank

105

Taylor Swift and the Apple Vision Pro are the biggest tech stories of the year (so far)

106

Untether AI's new CEO is here for global scale

107

The war against tech enshittification

108

Maybe the Rogers-Shaw merger won't lower prices after all

109

The biggest tech questions of 2024

110

Inside Canada's entrant in the global AI hardware battle

111

The Canadian YouTuber who killed NFTs

112

2023 tech year in review

113

Why is the Start-up Visa program struggling?

114

What happened to OpenView and will Canada see zombie funds?

115

#CDNtech talks AI disruption and the state of SaaS

116

The future of OMERS Ventures with Michael Yang

117

Why are there 100,000 fewer Canadian entrepreneurs? (LIVE at SAAS NORTH)

118

Buffer's Chief Product Officer on how it connects a fractured internet

119

Open banking is dead, Techno-Optimists want a war

120

Wealthsimple's Hanna Zaidi on the "lack of political will" harming FinTech innovation

121

Why Korean car makers want Tenstorrent's AI hardware

122

Exploring the forgotten history of Canadian venture capital

123

Hugging Face's Sasha Luccioni on the ethical and environmental impacts of AI

124

AI regulation is coming but Tobi Lütke is not "EFRAID"

125

As the world goes passwordless, does 1Password go B2B?

126

Can Waze's former CEO build a social network from scratch?

127

How "pirate" entrepreneur Lloyed Lobo kicked his self-destructive habits

128

Parental leave requirements for Canadian entrepreneurs make no sense

129

VC extravaganza: fundraising, "shitty" behaviour, mannequin startups & more

130

Alexis Gay is the funniest person in tech

131

#CDNtech talks VC risk, due diligence, and the AI hype cycle

132

Do Canadian entrepreneurs take risks? (AMA episode)

133

Jesse Wente wants Canada to "tax the hell" out of Big Tech, but he's open to cutting deals

134

LIVE from Startupfest!

135

The death of the Girlboss with Chelsea Fagan (The Financial Diet)

136

Canada's Commissioner of Competition needs more than a badge and a gun

137

Alberta tech is hungry

138

Paddy Cosgrave is not forcing you to come to Collision

139

Apple's Vision Pro won't make the metaverse happen

140

The Collision conversation is a microcosm for Canadian tech

141

Canada is in a health care crisis. What's the prescription?

142

A wake for BuzzFeed, Gawker, Vice with CANADALAND's Jonathan Goldsbie

143

What's next for Shopify?

144

Do the feds have an innovation strategy? (AMA episode)

145

YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) on internet grifts and how he hunts them

146

Revisiting BlackBerry's extraordinary rise and spectacular fall

147

Scale AI's COO explains how Canada can build an AI-powered economy

148

Is Canada ready for an EV future?

149

Was RenoRun abandoned by investors or just another mannequin startup?

150

Ask John Ruffolo Anything: SVB fallout, VC groupthink, government dependence & more

151

Michelle Scarborough explains why BDC is thinking bigger with Thrive Platform

152

Raine Maida and Senator Colin Deacon discuss Big Tech's control over digital creators (and the news)

153

Dan Breznitz unmuzzled: Canada Innovation Corporation architect explains how we got here

154

Panache's Chris Neumann on FounderFuel's return and "shitty" VC behaviour (AMA episode)

155

Generative AI will test what's worse: biased data or user bad faith

156

The Indigo hack is bad. Will AI make cyber threats worse?

157

What comes after the attention economy?

158

Why I killed my startup

159

Can Amber Mac explain WTF is happening in tech right now?

160

Stephen Marche on how generative AI will transform academia (and everything else)

161

A Web3 vibe check with Round13's Satraj Bambra

162

AI regulation is coming. What's Canada's approach?

163

ChatGPT disruption and self-certified investor pilots (AMA episode)

164

Year in review: biggest tech stories of 2022, 2023 predictions

165

Year in review: Kim Furlong talks VCCI and what comes next for Canadian venture

166

Bessemer, Georgian, OMERS VCs discuss the state of the market

167

Dissecting the anatomy of a #CDNtech seed round

168

#CDNtech talks down rounds, disasters, and "recipes for failure"

169

Will some Canadian tech companies die during the downturn? (LIVE at SAAS NORTH)

170

Waverly and the broken internet

171

Making future bets on Shopify, Wealthsimple & the metaverse (AMA episode)

172

Watching Alexis Gay is the most fun you can have while quiet quitting your tech job

173

Boom to bust cycles & why there's no Canadian techlash

174

How has the tech downturn affected founder mental health?

175

Twitch is dying and Devin Nash knows why

176

Is Real Ventures done? Is BDC just getting started? (AMA episode)

177

Exploring the city Google couldn't buy

178

Canadian tech is (still!) hiring

179

Learning from embedded FinTech leaders at Traction

180

How GrowthX found product-market fit across Canada's accelerators

181

The Global Talent Stream needs streamlining

182

Can FinTech help Canadian Muslims with financial access?

183

Tracking the tech downturn across Canada with data

184

Shopify stumbling, Rogers resilient, recession fundraising (AMA episode)

185

Mark McQueen thinks it's a great time to have a chequebook

186

Solving the lack of access to capital for Indigenous entrepreneurs

187

Why Startupfest is a tech company now

188

Inside Anthony Lacavera's fight for Freedom Mobile

189

Collision AMA: a tech downturn vibe check

190

Collision's Paddy Cosgrave talks Shopify, tech downturns, and meaningful connections

191

What's behind the explosion in acquisition entrepreneurship?

192

Why Canadian tech founders need better mentors

193

VCCI don't lose that funding + tech's bubble is bursting (AMA episode)

194

Should politicians use Twitter + Ontario's election budget

195

OMERS Ventures' Damien Steel wants you to stop reading tech headlines

196

How do you measure culture in the remote & hybrid workplace?

197

Can the feds build a talent strategy for digital nomads?

198

Do Canadian FinTechs want bank kickbacks or competition?

199

Quiet tech towns & Twitter's Elon Musk Problem (AMA episode)