Jeff Bezos: Differentiating With Technology

Posted on March 17th, 2007 in All Videos,Business,Leaders

57 minutes

Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com shares the vision, drive, and effectiveness of focusing on customer experience.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
-Jeff Bezos


Sony Keynote: GDC 07

Posted on March 10th, 2007 in All Videos,Business

49 minutes

Phil Harrison talks about Sony’s vision for Game 3.0 introducing Home for PS3 as well as showcases a new game called Little Big Planet which allows players to play and create their own levels and share them with the community.


Nintendo Keynote: GDC 07

Posted on March 10th, 2007 in All Videos,Business

72 minutes

Shigeru Miyamoto shares Nintendo’s vision and aim at broadening the gamer demographic. Including how he ranks games using the wife-o-meter.


Buck Design at FITC 2006

Posted on February 23rd, 2007 in All Videos,Business,Leaders

45 minutes

Presenting at FITC 2006, Ryan Honey and Orion Tait of Buck Design and Motion Graphics showcase 5 projects and provide a behind the scenes glimpse at the production process. Buck has completed projects for g4, MTV Movie Awards, Nike Battlegrounds, Cingular Wireless, and EA Games 007.


Dean Kamen: Value Added

Posted on January 20th, 2007 in All Videos,Business,Leaders

63 minutes

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, speaks to the Harvard Business School in this video from 2002. His inspiring and provocative lecture promotes creating businesses that add value to the world and discusses why his company DEKA, chooses the projects that it does.


Jay Conger: Strategic Storytelling

Posted on January 17th, 2007 in All Videos,Business,Quickies

4 minutes

Jay Conger, a professor at University of Southern California demonstrates how stories can be effective for communicating with a specific objective in mind. Jay provides a great example from Southwest Airlines and shares several tips for constructing effective stories.


Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Start

Posted on January 8th, 2007 in All Videos,Authors,Business,Leaders

40 minutes

Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start and former Chief Evangelist at Apple, shares tips to start-up companies in this lecture at Gigamon University.

Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
-Guy Kawasaki


Lawrence K. Fish: Not Your Typical CEO

Posted on January 8th, 2007 in All Videos,Business

54 minutes

Lawrence K. Fish, Chairman and former CEO of Citizens Financial Group shares his perspective on what it means to treat both employees and customers with respect. Lawrence grew a small Rhode Island bank into the third most profitabl company in New England. His management techniques are studied and admired by many.


Jason Fried: Collaborating at 37 Signals

Posted on January 6th, 2007 in All Videos,Business,Leaders,Technology

23 minutes

Jason Fried, one of 7 members of the 37Signals software company speaks in this video on collaboration. He stresses maintaining small teams, using passive means for collaboration, allowing ‘alone-time’ for people to work without interruption, make lots of very small decisions constantly, and to use meetings as a last resort to share information.


James Dyson: The Art of Engineering

Posted on January 6th, 2007 in All Videos,Business,Leaders

75 minutes

James Dyson, Inventor and CEO, speaks at MIT about the invention process and road that lead him to start the company Dyson.