Message from Jeremy: To all Tech IT Easy readers, who could obviously not necessarily remember the initial announcement, I have invited Vincent to write about innovative start ups based in the Netherlands, Apple, the media industry, incubators, business books and many other things that happen to interest him at the moment. Vince, they’re all yours!

Hi there,

I’m swamped with things at the moment, and therefore my input here on techiteasy. org has decreased drastically. My apologies, but here’s a little post anyway, and I hope to come back soon with more interesting stories.

You can learn a lot (but not everything) about leadership by talking to some of the greats. A second best is listening to an interview. Following are some podcast-interviews with interesting leaders from technology-based firms. Some of these will not discuss leadership specifically, but just listening to them gives you an insight into what made them get to where they are and where they see some of the future of technology. That’s an area, I hope, many of us will be active in.

Here goes.

• Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, discusses his managerial style but also comments on the strategies of other companies like Google and Microsoft (Also a great (and short) book on strategy I read by him is “Only the Paranoid Survive”.) – via iInnovate / Length: 21 mins.
• Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, discusses the company’s expansion into web-services like S3 and the mechanical Turk – via Talkcrunch / length: 17 mins..
• Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, discusses the challenge of running the chaos that is Google as well as the not-so-chaotic parts – via iInnovate / length: 20 mins.
• Reid Hoffman, former CEO of Linkedin, discusses entrepreneurship and strategy of Linkedin (which also convinced me to set up my profile there) – via Stanford / Length: 63 mins.

I hope you’ll enjoy those! The podcasts-series themselves are also quite amazing and of course available via iTunes. I do realise that I’m possibly giving away clues to future “guess who’s”, but that just means that the techiteasy-authors will have to become more creative in the future.

I’m of course curious whether our readers have stumbled across some interesting interviews as well. Audio, video, or text, even books, it doesn’t matter. Just let us know in the comments!

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