CanCon Podcast Ep. 88: How fucked up is your startup management?
If 2017 has taught us nothing else, it’s that stories of poor management in tech are not exactly uncommon. This week,…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 87: Why hasn’t Twitter learned any lessons from Slack?
Does Twitter understand what its problem is? That’s the question the team is asking this week on the latest CanCon podcast.…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 83: When signing code can send you to jail
As we round the corner into fall, the CanCon team checks back in on some of the big stories of the summer. Uber is back in…
CanCon Podcast 82: In defence of coding education
Canadians in tech groaned this week as an op-ed from Margaret Wente claimed that teaching code to kids is just a “silly…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 81: Would you “chip” your employees?
Folks, it has been a cruel, cruel summer (leaving us here on our own). To combat that, instead of diving into some of the darker…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 79: 500 Canada falls apart. What’s next?
This week the CanCon podcast breaks orthodoxy to spend entire episode on one major new story. Since the dramatic revelations…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 78: Supercluster clustercuss
With the innovation agenda at the forefront of the current government’s platform, it should no longer be a surprise that…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 77: Canada’s women entrepreneurship scorecard
The CanCon team is back from Startupfest in Montreal and ready to bring you more hot takes on Canadian tech topics. In the…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 75: Is Canada open for business as an innovation branch plant?
In a ruling that has surprised patent lawyers and startups alike, the Supreme Court of Canada has judged against the principles…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 74: Silicon Valley’s harassment problem is Canada’s problem, too
Allegations against Justin Caldbeck came to light last week in an article published by The Information when half a dozen women…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 73: Who are the founder-friendly VCs? What about women-friendly VCs?
This past week, the team at BetaKit hosted an invite-only tech event in Toronto called BetaKit 150 to celebrate Canada’s…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 72: Is Canadian tech having a moment?
If you’ve been paying attention to tech news in the last few months, you may have noticed how Canada is starting to share…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 71: Is HomePod and ARKit enough from Apple to stay innovative?
Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, in San Jose last week. A conference usually focused heavily on Apple’s…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 70: Will the government’s supercluster competition pit Canada’s tech hubs against each other?
When the 2017 Canadian budget was released back in March, the CanCon podcast did a deep dive into its impact on the tech sector.…
CanCon Podcast Ep. 69: Can Kik’s cryptocurrency save the company from copycat Facebook?
For its 69th episode, the CanCon podcast has money and unicorns on its mind. MobileSyrup broke a story this week that Android…