Industry leaders Lise Birikundavyi (Lise Birikundavyi (liseb.eth)), Katy Yam (Katy Yam), Sarah Stockdale (Sarah Stockdale she/her 🌱), and Jennifer Janson (Jennifer Janson) reflect on diversity and inclusion in #CDNtech in this week’s Best of BetaKit. #IWD #IWD2024 buff.ly/3wLjaCJ

At this point, we all know AI is drastically changing many job functions, across many industries. But not all verticals are created equal – and not all verticals are a good fit for tailored AI solutions. Taku Murahwi and I wanted to take a hype-free, clear-eyed approach to

Some of these are just mind blowing.

First timer's guide to working directly with a CEO: 1. Meet your deadlines. 2. Be positive. 3. Raise your hand for help. 4. Be transparent and don't hide stuff. That is it.

Love this story so much.

At Cobot, we've raised $130M in the past 9 months in one of the tightest fundraising climates we've seen. And we've raised from the top firms... Neo Khosla Ventures Sequoia Capital General Catalyst lux 𓅪怪鹰. My perspective on VCs has changed. 🧵

What. Are. We. Doing 🇨🇦 ?!?

Come on, Canada. We’re better than this 😢

This.

Even as someone who lives and breathes new technology, I am not immune to the increasingly savvy scams that seem to be taking over marketplaces everywhere. goConfirm launched a new AI assistant to help Canadians identify fraudulent behaviour. 👏 ow.ly/5WKg50RmOLZ

Calling all Canadian founders and leaders – time to assemble. Join our BetaKit Town Hall on May 7 in Toronto, ft. a discussion and AMA with tobi lutke. lu.ma/betakit-townha…

I’ll be live tweeting Betaworks AI Camp: Agents demo day which is kicking off in a few minutes so follow along for deets on the 9 companies in the cohort

Ha! This was advice my dad gave me when I first started working (and travelling a lot). I had long since forgotten the rationale - but I’m sure it was similar. It’s why you’ll always find me at the airport with plenty of time to this day.

Toronto #founders: I'm planning our annual Poker Tournament again this year. Last year tickets sold out within 24hrs of going live. This year I'm hacking a workaround for founders. If you're a founder in Toronto and want a ticket, comment or DM and I'll make sure you'll have one.

Truly the most beautiful co-working space I’ve ever been in SHACK15. I’m sure I did better work there because of it 😀

Just finished Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing. What a beautiful, haunting, eye-opening book. Highly recommend.

Quick rewrite: I’m the CEO of CrowdStrike. I’m devastated to see the scale of today’s outage and will be personally working on it together with our team until it’s fully fixed for every single user. But I wanted to take a moment to come here and tell you that I am sorry. People

Allbirds stock trades below $1 per share, or ~$100m market cap Most people just say 'DTC is hard' when telling the story of allbirds - but there's a deeper lesson in this story, and one that I think every DTC operator should hear let's break down where Allbirds went wrong 👇👇

THIS! I also don’t want yet another excuse for people to get out their phones at a meal time.

Beautiful design is now a commodity. I've spent the last 24 hours with ChatGPT 4o images, and it's clear we've entered a new reality: "Execution is cheap, ideas are everything." For decades, we were told the opposite. Everyone had ideas. Few could execute them well. The ability