{"podcast":{"title":"So, You Think You Want to Be a CEO?","slug":"so-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-ceo-7904018","podcast_index_feed_id":7904018,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/113806ee8/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/news249","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/46121514/46121514-1780917241293-566ea9f14556f.jpg","author":"News24","episode_count":8,"summary":"Everyone wants the title. Almost no one is ready for the truth behind it. This is a News24 podcast series for people who build things – and for those who want to understand what leadership actually costs. Hosted by Bruce Whitfield, each episode is an unfiltered conversation with people who have sat in the chair: founders, executives, disruptors and industry leaders who have faced the pressure, responsibility and personal contradictions that come with running something bigger than themselves. No consultants. No spin. No highlight reel. Just honest conversations about the distance between what l","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T04:17:38.167502+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/so-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-ceo-7904018"},"episode":{"title":"Sir John Lazar: Leading Ahead of the Tech Curve","slug":"sir-john-lazar-leading-ahead-of-the-tech-curve","published_at":"2026-07-27T14:26:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/so-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-ceo-7904018/sir-john-lazar-leading-ahead-of-the-tech-curve","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/so-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-ceo-7904018","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/news249/episodes/Sir-John-Lazar-Leading-Ahead-of-the-Tech-Curve-e3mjvth","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/113806ee8/podcast/play/123387249/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-27%2Fbf44b2ea-73d0-ee34-bd4f-8333791a39c0.mp3","summary":"John Lazar studied computer science at Wits before the personal computer existed as a consumer product. A Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, decades building and leading one of the UK's most consequential telecoms software companies, and now President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and knighted by King Charles III for services to engineering and technology. He co-founded Enza Capital to back the African tech founders most investors haven't found yet. This is a conversation about what it means to spend an entire career one step ahead of where the world is going and whether that's a gift, a discipline, or simply what happens when you refuse to look anywhere but forward.","meta_description":"John Lazar studied computer science at Wits before the personal computer existed as a consumer product. A Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, decades building a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2545,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/so-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-ceo-7904018/episodes/sir-john-lazar-leading-ahead-of-the-tech-curve/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/so-you-think-you-want-to-be-a-ceo-7904018/sir-john-lazar-leading-ahead-of-the-tech-curve.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}