The Secrets Behind the World’s Most Successful Startups – A Conversation with Mike Maples Jr, One of the World’s Top Venture Capitalists.

September 17th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
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…
17-09-2025 19:55:35
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A Conversation with Mitch Kapor, Computing Pioneer, on the Power of Investment to Tackle the Biggest Problems in Society.

September 18th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Mitchell Kapor is a pioneer of the personal computing revolution. He is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. In 1982, Mitch took lotus public, and in 1990 he…
18-09-2025 15:25:56
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A Conversation with Jim McKelvey, Co-Founder of Square and Author The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time.

October 4th, 2025 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he couldn’t accept American Express cards. Frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting credit card payments, McKelvey joined his friend Jack Dorsey (the cofounder of Twitter) to launch Square, a…
04-10-2025 16:05:33
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
In this exclusive interview series, we speak to some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs: Sir Richard Branson (Founder of Virgin Group), Robin Li (Founder of Baidu), Sir James Dyson (Founder of Dyson), Professor Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Founder of Grameen Bank), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Founder of Biocon), N. R. Narayana…
19-10-2023 12:16:27
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