Not fairly the very best begin to 2023 for tech.
Hi there and welcome to the BetaKit Podcast’s first AMA episode of 2023!
On these podcasts, we ask you—our listeners—for questions on Canadian tech or tech from a Canadian perspective, after which deliver on a particular visitor to reply them for us.
“I actually really feel as if 2023 goes to be a type of years in Canadian tech the place corporations are going to need to be accountable.”
For this episode, now we have a particular particular visitor, one Amber Mac, host of mainly each tech factor apart from the BetaKit Podcast. However, importantly, additionally a Canadian Podcast Awards winner. For those who would possibly recall, the last time we had Amber on the podcast, we talked a number of shit as a result of we had been additionally nominated for the Canadian Podcast Awards. And, nicely, she crushed us. So Amber is again on the pod, in search of revenge, apologies, and solutions.
Actually, she’s not the one one, because the submitted questions for this week’s episode might be broadly summarized like so: WTF is happening in tech proper now?
Now we have mass layoffs throughout Massive Tech, together with Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and Google. On the Canadian facet, you may have Lightspeed, Hootsuite, and Clearco—the latter two having changed their CEOs (once more), with Lightspeed swapping CEOs final 12 months. Oh after which there’s information (exclusively from BetaKit) that VCs are killing or renegotiating funding rounds as a result of LP traders can’t (or received’t) pay up. It’s quite a bit.
After which you may have generative AI like ChatGPT, which continues to be a supply of countless dialog—both because the Next Big Thing, or simply one other on an extended checklist of May Be Issues (together with AR/VR, Web3, and the Metaverse).
But it surely’s not all doom and gloom. In reality, issues appear to be booming in Atlantic Canada, and who higher to talk to the alternatives there for innovation, expertise, and entry to funding than PEI’s native daughter?
Let’s dig in.
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The BetaKit Podcast is hosted by Douglas Soltys & Rob Kenedi. Edited by Kattie Laur. Sponsored by Amazon Web Services.
