April 24th, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Devo Harris, founder and CEO of Adventr, an AI-powered video platform that enables top brands and agencies to produce, publish and share interactive and data-populated videos via no-code streaming. A Grammy-award winner, he co-founded Kanye West's GOOD Music in addition to signing EGOT winner…
24-04-2024 9:17:39
Thought Economics

 

March 28th, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview I speak to Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, an AI powered answer engine that is transforming the world of search by answering questions conversationally. Perplexity extracts data from lakes including the web, images and video, before applying LLM’s to produce incredibly natural answers to questions, with…
28-03-2024 15:57:28
Thought Economics

 

March 4th, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview I speak to Trip Hawkins, Founder of Electronic Arts (EA). Trip is often credited as having sparked the creation of the modern gaming industry, with EA now being valued at almost $38bn and being home to some of the most influential games ever made. In this conversation…
04-03-2024 9:29:39
Thought Economics

 

February 16th, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview I speak to Theo Paphitis, Serial Entrepreneur, Philanthropist & Star of Dragon’s Den. We discuss his incredible career in entrepreneurship, his learnings on what it takes to build successful businesses & brands, the future of retail, and the realities of what entrepreneurial life is really like. 
16-02-2024 9:34:05
Thought Economics

 

April 10th, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Elaine Lin Hering about the role and power of silence in having more authentic conversations, foster inclusive spaces and amplify all voices. As Elaine notes, “…only by unlearning silence can we fully unleash talent, speak our minds, and be more complete versions of ourselves...…
10-04-2024 15:08:06
Thought Economics

 

March 5th, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Naré Vardanyan about her incredible entrepreneurship journey- growing up without electricity in Armenia, teaching herself 11 languages by candlelight, and going-on to build a business which is using state of the art AI technologies to equalise trust and access to money globally by broadening…
05-03-2024 21:56:46
Thought Economics

 

February 19th, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Dr. Dana Sinclair, one of the world’s foremost performance psychologists who has worked with Olympic athletes to actors, surgeons to opera singers, fighter pilots, CEOs and more. We unpick what it takes to really be an elite performer, her new book ‘Dialled in: Do…
19-02-2024 12:57:34
Thought Economics

 

February 21st, 2024 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview I speak to Alison Taylor, one of the world’s foremost experts on business ethics, strategy & risk. We discuss the fundamentals of how businesses can do the right thing in a turbulent world including the need for meaningful values alignment, what it means to be a responsible…
21-02-2024 11:40:16
Thought Economics

 

December 13th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” We discuss the findings from his recent book How Big Things Get Done, and the tools, techniques, principles and models we can use to lead projects at all scales. He has 30 years of…
13-12-2023 11:45:30
Thought Economics

 

October 28th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview, I speak to Malcolm Gladwell. We discuss success, creativity, intuition, legacy, and adversity together with the importance of broadening our intellectual horizons to better understand our world, and ourselves. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What…
28-10-2023 14:56:37
Thought Economics

 

November 23rd, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this interview I speak to Abhijit Dubey, Global CEO of NTT Ltd. We discuss how he’s combining Silicon Valley and traditional Japanese leadership styles to bring together 39 companies in a $30bn merger process. We also look at the importance of leadership learning, and how to successfully lead environmental…
23-11-2023 14:51:37
Thought Economics

 

November 15th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks on earth. How should we use them best? Oliver Burkeman is author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking, and a columnist. In his new book…
15-11-2023 12:04:50
Thought Economics

 

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