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Booking Overview
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Episodes: 332
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: <1k
Gender skew: Male
Location: Canada
Contact Information
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Host
Matt Cohen - Founder & Managing Partner at Ripple Ventures, hosting weekly conversations with leaders in the startup ecosystem about the truth about investing, building, and running startups.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Eliot Pence - Returning To Canada To Build; Why Dominion Dynamics Is Built In Canada; Sovereign Defense Technology And Arctic-relevant Demand.
Fahd Ananta - Opendoor Turnaround; Speed And Velocity During Restructuring; Joining During The Turnaround After Prior Connections.
Andrew Chau - Building Neo Financial; Origin Story From Skipthedishes; Competing In Canada’s Regulated Banking Landscape.
Ben Vinegar - AI Product Management Platform; Deterministic Challenges In Understanding Users; Llm-enabled Analysis Of Human Signals At Scale.
Farhan Thawar - Remote-first Culture; Shopify’s Bursts/summits/hackathons; Meeting Cadence Design (“meeting Armageddon”).
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Episodes
Arctic Edge Panel: Defence Tech, Dual-Use, and the Future of Canadian Innovation
July 02, 2026
Canada is entering one of the most important moments in its innovation history. As global tensions rise and national security becomes a growing priority, founders, investors, and governments are being forced to rethink how Canadian defence technology is built, funded, and scaled.In this special episode of Tank Talks, host Matt Cohen steps into the guest seat as part of a live panel recording from the Arctic Edge event, held during Toronto Tech Week on May 26th, 2026. Against the backdrop of e...
Toronto Tech Week and the New Era of Canadian Startup Ambition
June 26, 2026
In this special episode of Tank Talks, Matt Cohen brings listeners inside Toronto Tech Week with a live podcast studio recorded at the Toronto Homecoming event. This episode captures a fast-moving snapshot of the Canadian tech ecosystem through candid conversations with Boris Wertz of Version One, Lawrence Mandel and Farhan Thawar of Shopify, Ben Vinegar of Modem, Andrew Chau of Neo Financial, Fahd Ananta of Opendoor, and Eliot Pence of Dominion Dynamics. Across venture capital, AI-native eng...
The Rundown 6/23/26: The AI Hype Machine, Canada’s Capital Gap, and the Return of Hard Tech
June 23, 2026
In this episode of Tank Talks, recorded live at the Global Startups Conference, Matt Cohen and John Ruffolo take the stage for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of Canada’s innovation economy, the AI infrastructure race, and why this moment feels different, even if John still refuses to fully believe “this time is different.” The conversation opens with SpaceX’s historic IPO, massive valuation hype, and the question of whether public market demand can support a new wave of AI and fron...
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