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Podcasts
Hosted by Douglas Soltys and Rob Kenedi, the BetaKit Podcast Channel features weekly podcasts discussing Canadian tech and global tech from a Canadian perspective. Produced by Kattie Laur.
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How Dax Dasilva plans to get Lightspeed to $1 billion in revenue
Dax is back: why he stepped down, then returned, as the company he founded approaches its 20th birthday.
Can this Canadian company make a splash in plant-based fish?
New School Foods is fishing to do the impossible… better than Impossible.
Xanadu’s Christian Weedbrook is raising another $200 million to build a quantum data centre
The CEO of Canada’s quantum unicorn is very optimistic about the country’s innovation potential.
Gradient Ventures’ Darian Shirazi on where AI value will accrue
A wide-angle view on the state of AI from the VC firm backing Lambda and CentML.
Tobi Lütke finally comes on the BetaKit Podcast
Shopify CEO discusses Canadian innovation, policy, courage, and ambition.
How Simple Ventures plans to fill a gap in Canadian entrepreneurship
Rachel Zimmer discusses the power of geographical arbitrage and the current impediments to Canadian entrepreneurship.
Wealthsimple and Koho CEOs talk productivity, entrepreneurship, and financial innovation
Two of Canada’s FinTech leaders tell founders to “get back to work.”
#Budget2024 emergency pod: spoiling for a fight
Canadian tech’s trust battery for the feds’ approach to innovation policy has drained.
What made you first love tech?
A pure nostalgia pod unpacking the gadgets, media, and moments that brought us to tech.
Is Québec Canada’s quantum province?
Quantacet managing partner Martin Laforest joins to discuss quantum tech’s “degrees of sexiness.”
Can video games teach kids math?
Serial founder Steven Woods on using video games as an educational tool, and avoiding venture capital.
Cory Doctorow’s new tech crime thriller takes us back to the days of Yahoo!
With The Bezzle, Doctorow continues to investigate the “absurdly complex, but not very clever.”
Float’s CEO on bridging the spending and software divide
Rob Khazzam has big ambitions for his business finance startup—he just doesn’t know what to build next.
How to fix SR&ED
Can a decades-old, $4 billion tax credit program be modernized to solve Canada’s innovation woes?