A yr of transition in know-how evokes many open questions.
Welcome to the primary episode of the BetaKit podcast recorded dwell in 2024 (in our new studio, no much less)!
Rob is out this week, trapped within the nightmare palace of his personal New 12 months’s decision, so we’re joined as an alternative by BetaKit reporter Josh Scott. I actually get pleasure from torturing my staff, so I took Josh’s look this week as a chance to play probably the most harmful recreation: a battleship-style back-and-forth the place we attempt to pepper one another with an rising sequence of technical questions on what 2024 would possibly convey.
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Regardless of inventing this recreation and pitching it to Josh hours earlier than recording, he in some way managed to beat me. Largely by Dishonest: Eradicating a final minute immediate for my Raptors lasts after the commerce I already remorse.
When it got here to questions in regards to the yr forward in tech, nonetheless, we have been even. In our 2023 evaluation episode, Rob and I recognized that know-how—and its establishments—is in a interval of transition. That liminal area lends itself properly to uncertainty about what occurs subsequent.
Will 2024 proceed to see extra management change on the high of know-how? Will a Canadian tech firm IPO this yr? Will a Canadian enterprise capital fund shut down or go into zombie standing like OpenView did late final yr? Will our federal authorities recharge its dwindling belief battery and make a contribution to the innovation economic system that matches its guarantees?
These have been only a few of the questions submitted on this week’s podcast, and I am not ashamed to say that I gave pretty much as good as I obtained. I am undecided what your solutions to those questions is perhaps (I am not 100 p.c certain about Mine solutions to those questions), however I am certain desirous about listening to your ideas. E-mail us your huge tech questions for the yr, together with any visitor or subject requests, or maybe further challenges which will come up for the BetaKit editorial group.
For now, let’s dive in.
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The BetaKit Podcast is hosted by Douglas Soltys and Rob Kenedi. Registered with CreatorClub. Sponsored by MEIE at TMU. Characteristic picture courtesy of Towfiqu barbhuiya through Unsplash.