Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL Interviews the world's leading thinkers, and the people shaping the century.

Mike Maples Jr. is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate.  He has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade and was also named a “Rising Star” by FORTUNE and profiled by Harvard Business School for his lifetime contributions to entrepreneurship. Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was…

 

In this interview I speak to Professor Bruce Hood, a world-leading psychologist and happiness expert. Grounded in decades of neuroscience, Professor Hood’s recent book The Science of Happiness explores the simple, life-changing discoveries that can really impact our own happiness. In our conversation, we discuss the fundamental nature of happiness,…

 

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…

 

In this interview, I speak to Asher Grodman- an actor, director, writer and producer who has worked across all mediums. Asher can currently be seen starring as fan-favorite character Trevor on the critically acclaimed CBS comedy Ghosts. Grodman’s other recent television appearances include Succession (HBO), Chicago Med (NBC), House of…

 

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…

 

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In space, and certainly on the International Space Station, everybody is a leader- there are so many complex, moving parts.. there are so many pressures on the system an teams around the world... It's an environment where listening is very important, and an environment where followership is equally as important as leadership.

— Tim Peake
British Astronaut & ISS Expedition Commander

For large corporations, globalization opened up opportunities without the correlate responsibilities which usually travel with that- so things that banks must do at home (in terms of being carefully regulated) they didn't have to do abroad... This took globalization out of balance, into a vicious cycle – and we're now dealing with the consequences of that.

— Ngaire Woods
Director of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University

We have to recognise that if we ignore or downplay the human side, we could lose. That, I think, is really the key insight for why and how things should be done differently.

Taking that first step is your biggest competitive advantage; most people won't do it.

— Mark Cuban
Billionaire Investor, Shark Tank Investor & Dallas Mavericks Owner

Love relationships, paradoxically, prioritize emotions above these considerations, which often turns out to be their downfall. What truly sustains us is what we mutually agree upon as beneficial and righteous, irrespective of our emotional state.

— Dr. Stan Tatkin
Psychotherapist & developer of Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)

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