I'm on PitchTV!

*Firstly I would just like to say that the internet rocks! 

This post is about the latest show to be shown on Virgin Airways flights, it is called PitchTV. PitchTV involves people with business ideas putting together their pitch and creating a 2 minute video (an elevator pitch). These videos are then uploaded to Richard Bransons blog (which is excellent by the way). Of these pitches the website users vote for the best pitches and these are then shown on board Virgin flights where they can be seen by potential investors. I think it an amazing concept and really is a win win situation. Virgin get to provide an interesting programme very cheaply and the users are able to reach a wide audience of potential investors.

In each episode of PitchTV the last segment involves CEO's of major companies being asked questions. Readers submit their questions by commentating on a particular page. A few of these questions are then put to the CEO's, so far James Caan (Dragons Den fame) and Tony Hsieh zappos.com have taken part. I woke up this morning and decided to watch the newest episode of PitchTV, and I was delighted to find that my question was one of those put to Tony.

This was my question:

Hi Tony,

I am always looking for inspirational quotes to keep me motivated and find that often I come across them in strange places. In particular I find rap music a good source, this may be because generally these individuals have come from very poor backgrounds and so have had to work extremely hard to get where they are today. Below are two lyrics I particularly like from Kanye West.

“But They Gonna Have To take my life before they take my drive
Cause when i was barely livin thats what kept me alive”

“Made a mill myself
And im still myself
And i`ma look in the mirror if i need some help”

I was wondering what are your favorite inspirational quotes and whether you are ever motivated by a song you hear??

thanks

He responded by saying that one of his favorite quotes was Gandhi's famous line "Be the change you want to see in the world", except he related it to business, saying that any time he saw something that could be done better, then he wanted to be the one to change it and do it better.

Here is the latest episode of PitchTV (Tony answers Q near end of video)

*I asked a question to a CEO of a billion dollar company and someone I greatly admire. Simply not possible without the internet