Podcast Episodes

Summer reading list: The Subversive Marketing Handbook

" Subversiveness is a way of changing the system. And I think what we're seeing right now is that all systems are changing."

Entrepreneur and Startupfest founding partner Alistair Croll has co-author…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

InBC's Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC "could be healthier"

" That's what we wanna change, right? For future companies, more Canadian investors on the cap table so that we can see those benefits come back through investment, through mentorship." 

Jill Earthy,…

Published on 5 months ago

Amii CEO Cam Linke says Canada's AI strategy requires customers

"Be a customer of Canadian startups. This is the thing that every company needs. Nobody died from having too many customers." 

The CEO of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, Cam Linke, joins …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

The Canadian engineer trying to fix the internet's original sin

" Companies have spent a lot of time and money creating really great user experience for humans. And now there's kind of this race to create a really good experience for AI agents."

Erik Reppel, head…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Faire's co-founder wants to bring Silicon Valley's DNA to Canada

" I think every ecosystem is different, but we can learn a lot from Silicon Valley, and we can merge what we have here."

Faire co-founder and Chief Architect Marcelo Cortes explains his journey from …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Half of the internet is bots and they're feeding you lies

"Bad actors are weaponizing AI faster than governments and enterprises are using AI to combat it."

New data shows that more than half of all internet traffic comes from bots, and a third of those bot…

Published on 6 months ago

2025's angel investor of the year has a plan for Canadian tech

"I feel like doing this is one of the greatest gifts of my life. Working with these people energizes me."

Joe Canavan, principal at Canavan Capital, is Canada's 2025 Angel of the Year. Recorded live …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

How does an online car retailer survive a trade war?

"I think for any entrepreneur that's navigated the last five years, I don't know if there was a worse time to be building a company."

Clutch found a new gear for its business after a post-pandemic lu…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

How Toronto Tech Week plans to host 10,000 people this June

" Toronto Tech Week belongs to everyone. Toronto Tech Week is by definition a platform, and it succeeds or fails by the virtue of all the hosts and all of the ecosystem in Toronto wanting to particip…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Eric Migicovsky's crazy journey to relaunch Pebble

" At the end of the day, I really wanted a Pebble. It didn't exist. No one was building anything remotely like it. So I, without really knowing what I was doing, decided to go and make it."

Almost 10…

Published on 7 months ago