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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. You can reach him on Signal: @tr0ndizzle.83

Chelsea Fagan, The Financial Diet

On the death of the Girlboss with Chelsea Fagan (The Financial Diet)

Jul 16, 2023

The Girlboss is dead but the need for better archetypes of entrepreneurship for women—and especially men—remains.

Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell on the BetaKit Podcast

Canadians want competition. Our Competition Commissioner needs better tools to fight for it.

Jul 9, 2023

The Competition Bureau is the last line of defence for enforcing competition law. But our system is designed to keep the line…

Calgary
Calgary

Alberta tech is hungry

Jul 3, 2023

James Lochrie (Thin Air Labs) and Brett Colvin (Goodlawyer) provide an Alberta tech vibe check.

Paddy Cosgrave on the BetaKit Podcast
Events

Paddy Cosgrave is not forcing you to come to Collision

Jun 22, 2023

Collision is here for a good time, perhaps not a long time. Web Summit’s CEO is having “a bit of fun” either…

A Collision sign ahead of the start of Collision 2022 in Toronto.
Events

Collision will remain in Toronto for 2024

Jun 20, 2023

Tech conference inks one-year extension, but Collision’s long-term future in Canada still unclear.

Apple Vision Pro

Apple’s Vision Pro won’t make the metaverse happen

Jun 18, 2023

Apple wants to strap a MacBook to your face. Is ‘spacial computing’ worth the asking price?

BetaKit Podcast
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The Collision conversation is a microcosm for Canadian tech

Jun 11, 2023

People across Canada are asking questions about Collision. The answers say a lot about Canadian tech.

BetaKit Podcast episode on the Canadian health care crisis.
Healthtech

Canada is in a health care crisis. What’s the prescription?

Jun 4, 2023

Brett Belchetz (Maple) and Alexandra Greenhill (Careteam) diagnose the failings of Canada’s health care system.

CANADALAND's Jonathan Goldsbie on the BetaKit Podcast.

A wake for BuzzFeed, Gawker, Vice with CANADALAND’s Jonathan Goldsbie

May 28, 2023

A post-mortem on the rampant demise of 2000s digital media publications & how they compare to the slow death of traditional…

AbCellera SIF funding announcement
AI

AbCellera receives $300 million in combined government funding for biotech campus

May 24, 2023

The $701-million project aims to build a ā€œstate-of-the-artā€ campus, add 400 jobs.

Tobi Lütke Shopify
Markets

What’s next for Shopify?

May 22, 2023

Business Insider’s Madeline Stone joins to discuss the end of Shopify’s “side quest” and future of…

Events

ā€œThe revolution has launchedā€: OpenAI’s Sam Altman charts the promise and peril of AI at Toronto event

May 15, 2023

Sam Altman has become the world’s most powerful optimist.

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

Do the feds have an innovation strategy? CCI’s Ben Bergen isn’t so sure

May 14, 2023

The Council of Canadian Innovators president answers your submitted questions on innovation policy.

Folding Ideas Dan Olson

How YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) hunts internet grifts

May 7, 2023

Alberta is the unlikely front in the war against NFTs, contrepreneurs, and the metaverse.

BlackBerry movie

Revisiting BlackBerry’s extraordinary rise and spectacular fall

Apr 28, 2023

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

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