How Flinks plans to beat Plaid on its own turf
Valley-based FinTech unicorn Plaid has been in the news a lot lately, after a $5.3 billion sale to Visa fell through in January,…
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Canadian tech, argued out loud.
Hosted by Douglas Soltys, The BetaKit Podcast brings sharp weekly conversations on Canadian tech, global tech, and the choices shaping the ecosystem.
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From pivot to IPO with Canada’s pizza king, General Assembly CEO Ali Khan Lalani
In the last year, a Toronto pizza place raised a $13 million Series A before filing to go public on the Toronto Stock Exchange.…
Will Canadian tech regret the move to remote-first?
Incredibly, this episode marks one year of Black Swan on the BetaKit Podcast Channel. So, what do we do to celebrate? “I…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…