The new battlefront between Shopify and Amazon
Over the course of the Black Swan podcast series, we’ve tracked how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted specific industries…
BetaKit Live: Leading Through Change
While COVID-19 has forced all business leaders to navigate change and uncertainty in the last year, change management did not…
InteraXon knows what the pandemic did to our brains
There are lots of different ways to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, we speak to a company about what they’ve…
Can new tech make buying a home less terrible?
Proptech was hot prior to COVID-19, but the pandemic set the market upside down for the incumbents and the disruptors. “Once…
Understanding Canadian tech’s leadership turnover
Canadian tech leaders are getting sacked left and right. Some are replacing themselves, and some are… being replaced. “What…
Proof that entrepreneurs really do think different
This is your brain. This is your brain on entrepreneurship. Any questions? “There’s this risk of being consumed…
BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman says social media now (kinda) wants to be regulated
The world is rushing to vaccinate itself against COVID-19. But what about the other virus? The one that attacks a society’s…
Good Wealthsimple, bad FinTech, ugly internet
Listen, there’s a lot going on right now. So, as AOC was struggling with OBS so she could stream on Twitch to talk WallStreetBets,…
Hubba to shut down
Just over ten years after its founding, Toronto-based retail startup Hubba will shut down operations, BetaKit has learned.…
Is a COVID-fuelled cleantech boom possible?
In 2020, we all stayed home. And nature was healing, right? Turns out 2020 tied for the hottest year on record. And, honestly,…
Shopify’s Deplatforming Policy
Canada’s most valuable company just booted the outgoing US leader off of its platform. Let’s talk about why, how,…
Bold Commerce raises $35 million CAD Series B backed by OMERS
Once known only as Shopify’s largest app developer, Winnipeg-based Bold Commerce is hoping a $35 million CAD ($27 million…
Pandemic (Year Two) Action Plan
Happy New Year! How will this one be different from the last? What can we do to make it different? This is also our first Black…
The perils of bad design
We’ve all experienced it at some point in the pandemic. COVID-19 has forced us to change our way of doing things, and that…
Year from Hell, year in review
We didn’t want to do a 2020 clip show. Everyone does a clip show at the end of the year. Why the hell would we do a clip…