Tobi Lütke finally comes on the BetaKit Podcast
Shopify CEO discusses Canadian innovation, policy, courage, and ambition.
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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 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?
After Ecobee, Stuart Lombard has no regrets
Ecobee’s ex-CEO and President on building consumer hardware in Canada and what comes next.
Can this FinTech startup become Canada’s next bank?
CEO Daniel Eberhard explains why Koho is going from challenger bank to actual bank.
Taylor Swift & the Apple Vision Pro are the biggest tech stories of 2024 (so far)
There is now software designed as an offensive weapon to fight other software. Arm the Swifties.
Untether AI’s new CEO is here for global scale
Chris Walker left retirement to lead Untether AI’s “scaling moment.”
The war against tech enshittification
This is why we can’t have nice things.