Stephen Karmazyn, BA

Stephen Karmazyn is a writer for Profit Confidential, where he focuses on reporting breaking news in the technology and emerging industries.
Throughout his career as a journalist, Karmazyn has written on tech for a variety of publications, including The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, and The Ottawa Business Journal. He served as the web editor for Techopia, a tech-centered newsblog focused on emerging start-up companies.
Get to know Stephen…
What first sparked your interest in tech?
Near the end of my undergrad, I spent some time interning at the Financial Post. My very first story was on Elon Musk’s SpaceX trying to land a used rocket on a floating drone-operated barge in the middle of a gulf. Besides being infinitely fascinating and an absolutely joy to write about, the story was my very first pitch and published piece. The next day Shopify went public and that absorbed the remainder of my time at FP.
What makes tech reporting different than other news?
Cutting-edge tech is having a profound effect on almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives, and tomorrow always brings something new to the table. Essentially, each article about tech acts as a potential preview for what life may look like in the near future.
What interests you about technology stocks?
Technology stocks are great to watch because the market determines in a very concrete way which devices will define our future. By following the emerging tech companies, you get to see in real time which innovations fly and which others will falter.
Pot Stocks Seeing More Interest From Analysts There's been a love-hate relationship between analysts and the marijuana industry. Many on Wall Street (and those trading professionally in stock exchanges around the world) have been at times ravenously bullish on weed stocks and at other times about as bearish…
What You're Missing About Pot Stocks Markets these days are anything but predictable. You have zombie companies roaming around—propped up by zero-percent interest rates—waiting to go under, retail investor rebellions against hedge funds, unpredictable block trading, and, oh yeah, a global pandemic upending global economic activity. But there's…
As Economy Grows, Marijuana Stocks Could Benefit Make no mistake: the future of weed stocks rests on legalization, the most important being federal U.S. pot legalization. Other countries, like Germany, are also considering marijuana legalization with more regularity. But that doesn't mean pot stocks are divorced from the…
Of Memes and Marijuana Stocks Those who are familiar with my writing know I typically like to examine a marijuana company's financials, quality of leadership, and growth prospects—as well as the general political momentum behind cannabis legalization (both in the U.S. and globally). But early 2021 has exposed…
U.S. Marijuana Legalization & Canadian Marijuana Stocks While I analyze the entire legal marijuana industry—both U.S. and Canadian pot stocks—there's a fundamental difference between the two. The simple fact is that what's good for U.S.-based pot stocks may actually be bad for Canadian weed stocks, and vice versa.…