Due to my rugged good looks and boundless energy, I’ve been fortunate enough to do a few interviews. In most recent first order, they are:
The Sunday Times print and online (South Africa) - The lure of the beloved country
The lure of the beloved country. The quote “What I’ve realised is that the best things that South Africans import are South Africans themselves…”, should be “What I’ve realised is that the best things that South Africans (import and) export are South Africans themselves…” and was originally coined by Shapshak.
The Times print and online (South Africa) - Geeks shall inherit the Earth
Geeks shall inherit the Earth. Interviewed after the GeekRetreat in SA.
The Times online (South Africa) - Expats realise grass greenest at home
Expats realise grass greenest at home. Note the company I co-founded then was Kindo.com, not Kinder.com 
NetwebTV [episode #3] - About building a startup that got acquired
Here’s the audio for the interview:
Brian Brown (Blue Catalyst in SA) - Bootstrapping a Startup
The headline points in the video above were:
1. work with contractors / freelancers first
2. hire core team first
3. hire for attitude, not skills
4. be cheap (frugal)
5. don’t pay for anything
6. don’t have any physical stuff in your office
7. use online services as much as possible
8. get a good accountant
9. learn to be as productive as possible
10. find good advisers who want to see you succeed
Brian Brown (Blue Catalyst in SA) - Smart Stars Update
“Video Description: Brian Carl Brown interviews Gareth Knight, an accomplished entrepreneur, and gleans Pearls of Wisdom from his successes and failures. This is a MUST WATCH for aspiring entrepreneurs.”
Mia Hammar - Masters student from Espoo, Finland
Mia wanted to interview us for her Masters thesis where she’s majoring in entrepreneurship in family business. Questions were around who we are, what our history was, how we worked with the investors, what we did to build a company atmosphere and culture, how we approached features for our users, what our ideas of family are, our experiences with startups, and a few more…. Was conducted on good ‘ol Skype. Mia will be sending the thesis when it’s done, so hoping to link to it then.
ESCP-EAP: European management school - Talk on being an entrepreneur and the Kindo experience
Did a talk with Mario and Martin for the 2008 class at ESCP-EAP. Talked about Kindo, and being an entrepreneur. Was pretty interesting, with some good questions coming from the sharp audience.
Intruders.tv on Kindo.com
Kindo.com is a “new take on the traditional family tree”. In this interview, we sit down with Gareth Knight to talk about Kindo and their user acquisition strategy. Gareth shares with us his experience of attracting users to the site and the effectiveness of strategies such as blogging, Google AdWords and PR.
Mike Butcher at the Future of Web Apps conference, London 2007
At YouTube.
The curious incident of the missing market
Mike Stopforth and Dave Duarte over at Amplitude (not live anymore) interviewed me a while back (early 2007), podcast mp3 here for reference.
