Great Business Minds

From idea to scale, we live in a new entrepreneurial age where leadership thinking needs to cut through the noise to deliver on a vision and blueprint to success. The Great Business Minds podcast goes inside the business with the leaders, inventors, investors, executives, trendspotters and visionaries of today to explore what it really takes to build a brand beyond conventional wisdom and disrupt the marketplace with the next big leap in entrepreneurship innovation. Seize the moment with host João Marques Lima, journalist and former editor-in-chief of FTSE 250 tech publications.

Great Business Minds is a business podcast hosted by João Marques Lima, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

João Marques Lima hosts Great Business Minds, a business show with 39 episodes published.

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  Episode #38

  Ep. 38 - The Land of Giants: Power, Private Capital and the AI Infrastructure Race, with Krupal Raval

  Mar 3, 202652 minS1

  <p>In this episode of Great Business Minds, João Marques Lima speaks with Krupal Raval, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at CyrusOne, about the forces reshaping global digital infrastructure.</p> <p>With a career spanning leadership roles at Digital Realty, Equinix, and now CyrusOne, Raval has witnessed - and helped shape - the industry’s evolution from post-dot-com consolidation to today’s AI-driven capital supercycle.</p> <p>The conversation explores how the sector has transformed into what Raval describes as a “land of giants” - an environment where access to capital, power and long-term partnerships increasingly determines who can c...

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  Episode #37

  Ep. 37 - Accelerating AI Data Centre Delivery, with George Teodorescu and Kristen Vosmaer

  Feb 12, 202635 minS1

  <p>In this conversation recorded at PTC Hawaii, JLL’s Kristen Vosmaer and InfraPartners' George Teodorescu break down what is really separating winners from the rest in the AI data centre boom.</p> <p>Key takeaways:</p> <p>Time to first token = time to revenue. The faster a data centre goes live, the faster investors see returns - making speed a core financial metric.</p> <p>Power is the new battleground. Projects now live or die on energy access, with behind-the-meter generation, gas and even future nuclear options entering the mix.</p> <p>Capital is getting smarter - and more in...

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  Episode #36

  Ep. 36 - Rebuilding Internet Routes and Securing Data Infrastructure, with Bevan Slattery

  Jan 3, 20269 minS0

  <p>Bevan Slattery, Australian entrepreneur and founder of multiple telecommunications ventures, spoke at The Tech Capital the 3rd annual APAC Finance Forum in Singapore on the evolving digital infrastructure landscape in Australia and Asia.</p> <p>Slattery noted the extensive rebuilding of internet connectivity over the past 12 to 24 months. “When you look at communications from the United States to Singapore, for example, or even India, they kind of realise we need new routes away from routes that are, I'd say, at risk at some level,” he said. “Really we're seeing an entire new route being built from the US to Austra...

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  Episode #35

  Ep. 35 - AI gold rush is here but politicians have no clue, with Michael Tobin CBE

  Sep 7, 202518 minS1

  <p>At the 20th DataCloud Global Congress in the South of France, industry veteran and digital infrastructure entrepreneur Michael Tobin OBE shares unfiltered insights into the growth and growing pains of the data centre and AI sectors. From power shortages and misguided politics to the urgent need for nuclear solutions and better public education on digital infrastructure, Tobin unpacks it all. He also touches on the politicisation of data centres, the looming environmental impact of AI, and the looming M&A rebound. He offers a brutally honest take on where the digital economy is heading.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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  Episode #34

  Ep. 34 - Inside the high-stakes race to keep Europe’s data at home, with Olivier Micheli

  Aug 8, 202520 minS1

  <p>At the Datacloud Global Congress 2025 in Cannes, Olivier Micheli, President and CEO of privately held Data4, discussed the group’s €21.5 billion (US$24.5 billion) investment pipeline, Europe’s digital infrastructure outlook, and the company’s positioning amid rising global competition.</p> <p>Micheli acknowledged the geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainties that have shaped the industry in early 2025 but emphasised that fundamental demand drivers remain strong.</p> <p>“In the last five or six months, the world has changed a lot. It creates uncertainty. Customers sign 10–15-year contracts, and they need certainty,” Micheli said. “However, data volumes continue to double every three years, business...

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