Podcast Episodes

Paddy Cosgrave is not forcing you to come to Collision

"Unfortunately, there's a long history over the last decade that I tend to lean into controversies around any event that we're holding anywhere in th…

2 years, 6 months ago

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

"They're trying to invent the next product category—that's what they want to do. They want to have some sort of hardware to push into the future.…

2 years, 7 months ago

The Collision conversation is a microcosm for Canadian tech

Is Collision staying in Toronto (and for how much)? Is Collision coming to Vancouver? Why are Canada's governments paying foreign companies to compet…

2 years, 7 months ago

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

"We are in a time of the worst health care crisis we've seen in Canada. It is really close to a collapse of the system across the country."

Brett…

2 years, 7 months ago

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

"That is a deeply unhealthy way to live and to work and it's ultimately not a successful way to sustain a publication."

CANADALAND news editor Jonath…

2 years, 7 months ago

What's next for Shopify?

"This announcement communicated two things: this thing we're getting rid of isn't primary to our mission—it's a side quest, we don't actually care ab…

2 years, 8 months ago

Do the feds have an innovation strategy? (AMA episode)

"I don't necessarily know if the government understands what an innovation strategy is."

Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) president Ben Bergen jo…

2 years, 8 months ago

YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) on internet grifts and how he hunts them

"We have industrialized grift in a way that is kind of unprecedented in human history."   Canadian YouTuber Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) explains his ba…

2 years, 8 months ago

Revisiting BlackBerry's extraordinary rise and spectacular fall

"Once Apple showed up, BlackBerry had to do everything right and get on it on the double. And they did everything wrong."

"And for whatever reason we…

2 years, 8 months ago

Scale AI's COO explains how Canada can build an AI-powered economy

"The goal here is not that Canada is the largest market for AI in the world—it's never going to be that. But if we make it the most willing to try ne…

2 years, 8 months ago