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Douglas Soltys

Douglas Soltys

Douglas Soltys is the Editor-in-Chief of BetaKit and founder of BetaKit Incorporated. He has worked for a few failed companies and written about many more. He spends too much time on the Internet.

BlackBerry movie
April 28, 2023

Revisiting BlackBerry’s extraordinary rise and spectacular fall

Losing the Signal co-author Sean Silcoff and BlackBerry co-writer Matthew Miller step into the Wayback Machine.

Scale AI February 2023
April 23, 2023

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

Clément Bourgogne says Scale AI is more focused on supply chains than generative AI.

Project Arrow
April 16, 2023

Is Canada ready for an EV future?

Flavio Volpe and Paris Marx join for a conversation on what the future of transportation in Canada might look like.

PM Trudeau and DPM Freeland speaks with media in West Block. July 16, 2020
April 10, 2023

BetaKit’s most-read March stories show #CDNtech sector struggles continue as government innovation promises continue to lag

SVB’s collapse kicked off a month that included new layoffs, bankruptcies, and AI disruptions.

RenoRun team
April 9, 2023

Was RenoRun abandoned by investors or just another mannequin startup?

Ripple Ventures’ Matt Cohen joins to unpack the complicated spot Canadian startups find themselves in.

John Ruffolo, Maverix Private Equity
April 2, 2023

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

Canadian tech’s maverick investor answers your submitted questions.

March 28, 2023

RenoRun files for creditor protection after failed pursuit of “Hail Mary” deals to save company from insolvency

The filing follows four attempts to raise bridge financing and multiple rounds of layoffs.

Michelle Scarborough, Managing Partner, BDC Women in Tech fund
March 26, 2023

Michelle Scarborough explains why BDC is thinking bigger with Thrive Platform

In late September, at a private BDC event taking place during Elevate—the same day the Crown Corporation announced its new…

Raine Maida, Our Lady Peace
March 17, 2023

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

Big Tech controls the discovery and distribution of Canadian content. What’s a democracy to do?

Dan Breznitz
March 11, 2023

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

What the CIC is missing, who might make a good CEO, and why the Crown corp. comes with carrots and sticks.

Santa Clara, Calif. HQ of Silicon Valley Bank
March 10, 2023

How the Silicon Valley Bank shutdown might impact Canadian tech

The SVB run is done. What comes next?

Chris Neumann, Panache Ventures
March 5, 2023

Panache’s Chris Neumann on FounderFuel’s return and “shitty” VC behaviour

“Myself and every other investor I know has a long list of people we will not deal with again.”

A pair of hands holding a mobile phone which has the Shopify logo on it
March 1, 2023

Shopify changes employee compensation model: “being a manager now has no effect on compensation”

Shopify employees are now either managers or crafters, but not both.

AI chatbots run amok
February 24, 2023

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

Is AI ready for users willing to fuck around and find out? Are we?

Indigo bookstore
February 20, 2023

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

Plurilock CEO Ian Paterson discusses the economics of AI cyber threats and Canada’s response with Bill C-26.

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