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Also enjoyed the ones where they talk about how they got their first users. In many episodes the conversation I felt skipped this or spent too little time on it.
1) Mike Bloomberg: Talk about founding and tech development of Bloomberg Professional Service (don't talk about politics at all)
2) Judy Faulkner: Founder and CEO of EPIC systems, a large privately held Hospital EHR vendor (Epic is one of the largest and most insular tech companies in the world)
3) Jack Ma: Founder of Alibaba
4) Pierre Omidyar: Founder Ebay
5) Bill Gates and/or Steve Ballmer
6) Mark Cuban
More traditional Silicon Valley:
1) Larry Ellison: CEO of Oracle
2) Marc Benioff: CEO/Founder Salesforce
3) Paul Buccheit: Talk about gmail and early Google R&D product only
4) Matt Cutts: Get him to tell us how SEO really works
5) Scott Cook: Founder Intuit
6) Jeff Bezos: Founder/CEO Amazon
7) Tony Fadell: iPod Designer & CEO of Nest
The type of podcast I'd like to listen to is if you got a roundtable of people in various roles (like a roundtable of all technical founders, or a roundtable of all first employees, or a roundtable of all solo founders), and then asked them questions and let them discuss and debate topics, optimally ones submitted by listeners. And perhaps if a subset of those people were particularly good have them on semi-regularly…
I agree with this. Also: what woodworking podcast is that?
I see another commenter posted a different one so it seems the format of 3 people chatting about a topic is popular!
* I can scan quickly.
* I can search for things.
* It's easier for me to read things than listen. I don't drive much, so don't have dead time when I can only listen.
This is niche i know but it would be good because many people here like me will find it more relatable than hearing people who have celebrity like status.