Canadian tech leaders are getting sacked left and right. Some are replacing themselves, and some are being replaced. There’s Top Hat’s Mike Silagadze who stepped down as CEO right as the company had a near-majority stake acquired by investor Georgian partners. Then there’s Shopify, where CEO and co-founder Tobi Lütke sacked his CPO to take over product development, promoting COO Harley Finkelstein to President, all during a period of incredible growth. 

Now, many of the people mentioned above have held these positions for at least a decade. The simple argument to be made is that their time has come. This podcast investigates why is that time right now? To answer that question, BetaKit invited on the podcast two journalists who have been writing about these companies and their recent changes: The Globe and Mail’s Sean Silcoff, and BetaKit’s very own Associate Editor, Meagan Simpson.

Listen to the episode on BetaKit’s Black Swan podcast.