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"When we look at companies today, I'm reminded of what it was like - just how bleak it was - in that summer of 2000. You can play through that as an investor and an entrepreneur."

Mark McQueen, Presi…

"Trust, and Indigenous impact measurement, and the wellbeing of Indigenous families sit alongside risk and return. In fact, in our fund, sit significantly above risk and return as investment consider…

"Other conferences are phoning it in."

Startupfest's Alistair Croll and Olivia Rossi join to explain how Canada's Original Startup Conference has changed in its major return to IRL and the amount of …

"The worst outcome for Rogers is an actual real competitor, which is what we are. They know we're going to bring prices down and they don't want prices to come down."

Globalive co-founder and chairma…

"So are you saying that Canadian tech is under-appreciated?"

A special Collision edition of our monthly AMA episode, answering listener questions about: the current downturn mood, cool tech we saw at…

"Everybody I meet keeps asking me 'where's Shopify?'"

Collision's Paddy Cosgrave discusses the conference's second first impression in Toronto, tech downturns, and if Canadian startups can handle the…

“It’s like you’re getting married and writing your prenup and your divorce agreement on the day you get married.”

Elizabeth MacRae (Village Wellth) explains how YouTubers, Boomers, and banks with fav…

“We have really no programming to teach mentors, it’s all tribal.”

Brice Scheschuk (Wind Mobile, Globalive) discusses the CDL session that gave him imposter syndrome, prompting the launch of MindFram…

RBCx's Anthony Mouchantaf (AKA, Tony Dagger) returns as a special guest to help answer listener-submitted questions…

“The unforeseen consequences of this stuff has ripples throughout society that in the most generous interpretation we didn’t see coming, but can no longer deny.”

Former OneEleven executive director S…

"That impact that's being felt in the public markets will start to trickle down to the earlier rounds."

Damien Steel, managing partner and head of ventures at OMERS Ventures, takes umbrage with how v…

"We're very social creatures, so human-to-human connection is ultimately what we're craving even if we are working in a digital-by-design or remote-first environment."

Shawn Hewat, CEO and co-founder…

"Potentially it does have the opportunity to create thousands of jobs here in Canada."

CCI president Ben Bergen and VP Dana O’Born join to tackle the big talent changes that pre-empted #Budget2022, b…

"That kind of gives me a brain boner. I get pretty excited."

Changes to the Competition Act are coming. Can a "whole of government" approach break Canada's oligopolies? Policy wonk Vass Bednar joins …

BetaKit Associate Editor Meagan Simpson joins for her second AMA episode to answer a complex bunch of listener questions: what did the New York Times get wrong a…

"What’s it like when an app doesn’t just connect you to a doctor… it’s the medicine?"

A4i's Amos Adler and Dr. Sean Kidd join to discuss the difference between telemedicine and digital therapeutics, …

Ilya Brotsky (CEO of VanHack) and Daryna Kulya (co-founder and COO of OpenPhone) discuss Uk…

"Here's something that I didn't anticipate when we began doing these conversations across provinces: they don't talk to each other."

CCI's Ben Bergen and Bronte Valk walk through Alberta and BC's lat…

RBCx's Director of Venture Capital, Anthony Mouchantaf, joins to dis…

"League of Innovators is trying to solve this problem of how we identify and accelerate young entrepreneurs."

LOI Venture founder and GP, Ryan Holmes, discusses investment in youth entrepreneurship, …