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Ravi Mattu

Ok, so we don’t actually have any sort of world exclusive with anyone from Google (although today’s news that Google is releasing an operating system is, in management terms, a huge story and it would be a great time to have an interview with the company) but I borrowed the headline from the cover of the August edition of Wired UK magazine. I added the exclamation mark at the end to show just how much better our “world exclusive” is.

It’s an odd claim given that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has been interviewed a few times on FT.com, and that there doesn’t seem to be anything especially new in this piece. But any interview with the people (Wired also spoke to Sergey Brin) who are at the forefront of a technology revolution at one of the world’s most interesting companies is worth reading.

Ravi Mattu

John Gapper reviewed Free: The future of a radical price, the latest book by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired (US edition) in today’s paper.

And over on John’s blog, we have been engaging in our first ‘interactive review’ – opening up our pages to the author to respond and exchange ideas with the critic.

The discussion threw up some interesting ideas and, being the FT, they were discussed in a suitably civilised way.

I’m sure a lot of readers have thoughts on this so feel free to pitch in with your comments (registration is required but this isn’t too onerous).

Ravi Mattu

Cirque du Soleil at the Royal Albert Hall Cirque du Soleil is 25 years old this week. To celebrate, the company on Tuesday tried to set a world record for the most people simultaneously walking on stilts. It will take the auditors at the Guinness Book of Records some time to analyse whether they realised their ambition.

Cirque du Soleil, which began as a small group of stilt-walkers, jugglers and musicians has become a global business that employs more than 4,000 and has revenues of more than $700m. As we reported last year, Guy Laliberte, its founder, even won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award a couple of years ago. More recently, Mr Laliberte paid $35m to become a space tourist.

The joys of being a successful entrepreneur.



About the authors

Stefan Stern writes a column on Tuesdays on management. He is winner of the 2010 Towers Watson award for excellence in HR journalism, and has previously won awards from the Work Foundation and the Management Consultancies Association.

Ravi Mattu is the editor of Business Life, the FT's management features section, and a former editor of the Mastering Management series. He joined the FT in 2000 from Prospect magazine

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