Podcast Interviews with Successful People from the San Jose Mercury News

The Mercury News podcast section has interviews with lots of incredibly accomplished people. Some of the interviewees include:

Bret Taylor, co-founder of FriendFeed
http://mercextra.com/listen/2008/08/29/an-interview-with-friendfeed-co-founder-bret-taylor/

T. Boone Pickens, billionaire hedge fund manager
http://mercextra.com/listen/2008/07/29/an-interview-with-oil-man-t-boone-pickens/

Mari Kuraishi, co-founder of the GlobalGiving Fund
http://mercextra.com/listen/2008/07/09/interview-with-mari-kuraishi-building-an-online-global-market-for-philanthropy/

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/08/07/steve-jobs-qa-about-new-apple-products/

Nicole Wong, deputy counsel from Google
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/06/18/interview-with-googles-nicole-wong/

Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/06/15/interview-with-technoratis-dave-sifry/

Dirk-Willem van Gulik, CTO of Joost
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/04/20/interview-with-joosts-cto/

Matt Shobe, co-founder of Feedburner
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/03/27/interview-with-matt-shobe-co-founder-of-feedburner/

Franz Och, head of Google machine translation
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/03/19/interview-with-googles-franz-och/

Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/02/15/interview-with-reggie-fils-aime/

Videoegg CEO Matt Sanchez
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/02/15/interview-with-videoegg-co-founder-and-ceo-matt-sanchez/

Michael Bebel, CEO of Ruckus
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/01/29/interview-with-michael-bebel-ceo-of-college-music-service-ruckus/

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/01/22/interview-with-wikipedias-jimmy-wales/

Billy McNair, founder of Peerflix
http://mercextra.com/listen/2007/01/16/interview-with-peerflix-founder-billy-mcnair/

There are also lots of interviews with celebrities at the main podcast page, but I’m more interested in business & technology figures : )

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