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Physical AI and economic nationalism at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
"You guys have done what you've done with the wind in your face. Imagine if you had the wind at your back. Wow." Couldn't attend BetaKit Mos...
AI sovereignty & defence tech at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
"Everywhere I go, BetaKit is there. They grill me. Every time I say something, I say 'I wish I didn't say that' because BetaKit recorded it....
How Toronto Tech Week became Canada's largest grassroots tech event
"You could start your day paddleboarding on Lake Ontario, then you could go to a workout class, then you could go to a session on what VCs w...
Harjit Sajjan reports for duty
"I know people with amazing ideas, but they don't have the right investment to take their idea to the prototype stage. At the prototype stag...
Evaluating Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy
"There's a lot in this document… Do we feel the urgency and the threats are covered here?" After months of waiting, the Defence Industrial S...
How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
"With AI, it should bring down the barriers to how you quickly adopt new software without having to become masters of the software." When St...
How to fix Canadian VC
"We have a collective action problem. Somebody has to take the first step and say, 'Hey, we're going to deploy a lot of capital here in Cana...
How to fix Canada's Start-up Visa
"Speed is of the essence. This is a super dynamic marketplace. Canada is losing entrepreneurs, we're losing the next generation of founders,...
Is BDC too big to change?
"BDC is powerful in the sense that it can make or break a fund… And a lot of people are trying to close funds right now." In 2022, the feder...
An insider's take on Canada's AI task force report
"If we don't get our AI ducks in a row at some point and we miss that boat to shore up our industries right now, it's not really going to ma...
Why Y Combinator cut Canada out
"It's important for the success of Y Combinator to see people investing at a very, very early stage. And if it means, to keep them happy so...
TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can't clean up
"You have just seen control of one of the most popular social media platforms in one of the most influential countries in the world switch f...
The Canadian company solving AI's latency problem
"How do I create the 'wow' moment for my end user? And slowness never creates the wow moment." PolarGrid founder and CEO Rade Kovacevic beli...
The future is a four-day workweek
"The workweek will continue until morale improves." Jared Lindzon and Joe O'Connor's new book, Do More in Four: Why It's Time for a Shorter...
The biggest tech questions of 2026
"Maybe we will see the robots that we want in our lives in 2026. But be prepared: they will definitely be controlled by people in India with...
The biggest tech stories of 2025
"2025 is the year that we committed to the bit, and all pretences went away." Special guest star Rob Kenedi (Decelerator) joins for The Beta...
Canada's job market sucks for Gen Z
"Can you imagine a quarter—25 percent—of Canada isn't sure if they'll be employed next year? That is a wild statistic." Kevin Kliman, presid...
Rogers v. Rogers is Canada's real-life Succession story
"It seems irrational, and irrational behaviour is where drama lives, it's where comedy lives. It's where all the fun is." A communications t...
Canada's AI ambitions with Minister Evan Solomon
"It used to be that Silicon Valley was the kind of Mecca of the entrepreneur. What's happening is everyone has got the tools that used to be...