Business & Economics
The Reality of Silicon Valley
The San Francisco Bay Area (more commonly known as Silicon Valley) has a GDP of $840 billion, to put it another way – if this region was a country, it would be…
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Business & Economics
José Neves, Farfetch Founder & CEO
José Neves started his first business aged just 19, creating software for business in the North of Portugal. His family had a history in shoemaking, and it was perhaps inevitable that fashion…
Business & Economics
Equality: Interviews with World Leaders & Experts
In this exclusive series of interviews from 2015-today, I spoke with the world’s foremost experts on inequality: Kate Gilmore (United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights), The Rt. Hon. The Lord…
Science & Technology
Chris Hadfield: Leadership Lessons from Space
Referred to as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong,” Colonel Hadfield was selected as a NASA Mission Specialist, and three years later he was aboard the Shuttle Atlantis, where he helped…
Business & Economics
Capitalism – What Comes Next? Nobel Economists
In this exclusive interview series, we speak to Nobel Prize Winning Economist, Edmund Phelps (Director of the Columbia University Center on Capitalism & Society and the McVickar Professor of Political Economy at…
Business & Economics
Understanding Democracy: Elite Interviews
In these exclusive interviews we speak to Jüri Ratas (Prime Minister of Estonia), Guy Verhofstadt (Former Prime Minister, Belgium & EU Chief Brexit Negotiator), Vicente Fox Quesada (Former President of Mexico), Noam…
Business & Economics
How Technology Stole Our Minds
To learn more about how technology has stolen our attention; and what we can do to get it back, I spoke to James Williams (Writer & researcher on the philosophy and ethics…
Business & Economics
Frank Abagnale: Cybersecurity & Fraud Prevention Expert
My Interview with Frank Abagnale, Renowned Cybersecurity and Fraud Prevention Expert, Bestselling Author & Subject of Catch Me If You Can.
Business & Economics
Ian Bremmer on Global Risk & Complexity | Eurasia Group
We are in a complex world- made difficult to model because of the nonlinear, emergent, spontaneous and adaptive interactions of trillions of elements. Whilst our biological and environmental complexity has had millions…
Business & Economics
Why We Sleep: Matthew Walker on Sleep Science
If you are lucky enough to live to 79 (the global average lifespan) you will have spent around 25 of those years (roughly one third of your entire life) asleep. Scientific advances…
Business & Economics
Rand Fishkin on Startup Reality & SMB Economics
Our inability to disconnect extreme events from the norm also affects our perceptions of business. The picture we see of the business environment shows us the tails not the curve, we here…
Business & Economics
Mitchell Baker on Technology, Mozilla & Open Innovation
Technology push also brings with it a range of unintended or unexpected consequences, particularly at a time (as we are now) where technology can grow from the germination of an idea to…