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The BetaKit Podcast Channel
The BetaKit Podcast Channel features weekly podcasts discussing both Canadian tech and innovation, as well as global tech from a Canadian perspective.
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Can Canada build its own social network?
“It’s one thing to say ‘let’s do this in a sovereign way.’ It is a whole other to actually do it.”
Gander Social is attempting to do something t...
Are Canadian entrepreneurs willing to let their old companies die?
“Don’t talk to your customers because your customers will keep you in the place that you used to be.”
AI adoption is now an industry-wide mandat...
Tailscale’s CEO has an idea “worth billions” for AI startups
“That’s the literal term several CISOs have used with me unprompted: ‘ticking time bomb.’ There’s no world in which this doesn’t explode the way it’s...
Why Canada’s defence tech sector is suddenly exploding
“It actually allows us an opportunity to build sovereign capability and leapfrog to get our armed forces where they need to be by taking advantage of...
Amber Mac wants parents to know their kids are talking to AI
“There’s a really good chance that a young person’s parents—or even their friends—don’t even know that this individual is building a relationship with...
Are Canadians ready for AI-powered life insurance?
“We’re going to find in the next year or two that the amount of leakage actually goes up quite a bit because I think the focus on AI is just moving re...
AI is changing startup math with Ripple Ventures’ Matt Cohen
“ That's also quite daunting as an investor to be able to put money into something that is perfect for now, but will it last three to five years? Will...
The former Meta employee trying to stop Canada’s AI brain drain
“A win for AXL is that, ten years from now, instead of nine of the top ten biggest and most successful companies in the world being on the West Coast...
What can talking to AI teach us?
“How is this thing—running in a data centre with Nvidia GPUs—understanding what I’m saying with such nuance and such depth?”
Former DarwinAI CEO...
How Canada can be a leader in space (and save the world)
“ This isn't just about doing something cool because space is the next frontier. This is a key domain for economics, for national security, sovereignt...
The living history of Canadian tech with Phil Telio
“History never stops. It’s a living reality.”
In celebration of Startupfest’s 15th anniversary, founder Phil Telio joins to discuss the origins...
‘Canada’s edge in applied AI’ with Nvidia and Waabi leaders
“The talent here is incredible, right? When we started faculty, I walk in the class and there's Jimmy Ba. Every time you guys train a neural network,...
Why Canada's prime minister is talking about quantum tech with Xanadu’s Christian Weedbrook
“The current government is really plugged into what’s needed.”
One step closer to quantum data centres with the launch of his company’s advanced...
Ambition made in Canada with Shopify, Cohere, and Wealthsimple
“ It's kind of that 'Valley or bust' mentality which breaks the ecosystem and really hurts Canada.”
Harley Finkelstein (Shopify), Mike Katchen (...
What keeps Bluesky’s head of trust and safety up at night?
“ The company fascinates me… because they have such interesting concepts internally. One of them being ‘treat the company as a future adversary,’ whic...
The stories of Canadian tech’s Most Ambitious
“I want to put ambition in people’s hands. You say it doesn’t exist—you’re going to hold it, you’re going to flip through it, you’re going to see it.”...
Summer reading list: The Subversive Marketing Handbook
“ Subversiveness is a way of changing the system. And I think what we're seeing right now is that all systems are changing.”
Entrepreneur and St...
InBC’s Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC “could be healthier”
“ That's what we wanna change, right? For future companies, more Canadian investors on the cap table so that we can see those benefits come back throu...
Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canada’s AI strategy requires customers
“Be a customer of Canadian startups. This is the thing that every company needs. Nobody died from having too many customers.”
The CEO of the Al...
The Canadian engineer trying to fix the internet’s original sin
“ Companies have spent a lot of time and money creating really great user experience for humans. And now there's kind of this race to create a really...
Why Faire’s co-founder wants to bring Silicon Valley’s DNA to Canada
“ I think every ecosystem is different, but we can learn a lot from Silicon Valley, and we can merge what we have here.”
Faire co-founder and Ch...
Half of the internet is bots and they’re feeding you lies
“Bad actors are weaponizing AI faster than governments and enterprises are using AI to combat it.”
New data shows that more than half of all int...
2025’s angel investor of the year has a plan for Canadian tech
“I feel like doing this is one of the greatest gifts of my life. Working with these people energizes me.”
Joe Canavan, principal at Canavan Capi...
How does an online car retailer survive a trade war?
“I think for any entrepreneur that’s navigated the last five years, I don’t know if there was a worse time to be building a company.”
Clutch fou...
How Toronto Tech Week plans to host 10,000 people this June
“ Toronto Tech Week belongs to everyone. Toronto Tech Week is by definition a platform, and it succeeds or fails by the virtue of all the hosts and al...
Eric Migicovsky’s crazy journey to relaunch Pebble
“ At the end of the day, I really wanted a Pebble. It didn't exist. No one was building anything remotely like it. So I, without really knowing what I...
Katherine Homuth revisited
“ It's worth it. Because this deserves to live. We've gotten it far enough that this deserves to actually come to fruition. I don't think there is ano...
Canadian foodtech has a scale-up problem
“ By the time these companies are ready for B and C [rounds], their cap tables are super clean, too. So it doesn't really make sense that we're not pu...
Cohere commands attention, Apple Intelligence delays, plus a vibe coding PSA
”Apple won't use user data to develop and train AI. And Apple lives in a world where AI is going to be table stakes in any software or hardware moving...
An election primer on what Canadian innovators need
”One of the things that I think we've got to critically think about in our country for the future is that we've got to begin using those dollars effe...
What is Build Canada trying to construct?
“I don’t know what Canadian DOGE is. You know what I know? That everyone is projecting both their hopes and fears onto this thing.”
Ex-Shopify V...
Rejecting the rejection of DEIA with AccessNow’s Maayan Ziv
“It feels like my inclusion was optional, and that is a scary message to be told. ‘We were doing you a favour by letting you in the room.’”
Acce...
How is Canadian tech responding to the trade war?
“Once you’ve cornered that beaver, look out. We are a vicious beast.”
Rob and Douglas review the latest dispatches in Canada’s impending trade w...
AI’s new moat with Coveo’s Louis Têtu
“ You're going to see Coveo starting to invest quite aggressively actually to be a market taker. We're not a disrupted company. We're a market taker i...
Is Canada a secret video game powerhouse?
“Part of the magic of the games industry here is that it’s not one thing.”
Canada must diversify its economy. Why not start with gaming? Enterta...
Why Alistair Croll wants Canadian startups to be more evil
“ Subversiveness is a way of changing the system. And I think what we're seeing right now is that all systems are changing.”
Entrepreneur and St...
SRTX's Katherine Homuth wants to solve for everything
“This is worth the pain of attempting to figure out how to do it. But attempting to figure out how to do it required us to basically rethink everythin...
Social media’s midlife crisis with Amber Mac
”It does make me increasingly nervous that one of them really wants to move to Mars and the other one has a legit bunker. Like, what are they prepari...
The biggest tech questions of 2025
“ I'm sure if there's one takeaway here is that we can all trust Enron to solve the world's energy problems.”
“With a mere human-sized egg.”
2025 tech predictions: embrace chaos
“Part of my prediction for 2025 is embracing or acknowledging that chaos reigns.”
AI agents. Political shenanigans. A Canadian tech acquisition...