CEO's have the power to turn around entire companies making them some of the most influential people on the planet. Its always interesting to hear what they have to say about their companies, the products and services they offer and where they think the future is heading.

Bill Gates turned around Microsoft and outlined the Internets importantance with the internal memo titled Internal Tidal Wave. Louis Gerstner transformed IBM in the 90's from a hardware company to a highly focused, customer driven, services company. Both highly influential CEO's who saw opportunity and turned their companies around before it was too late.

Below are some interviews and speeches ive rounded up from youtube by some of the most powerful CEO's in the technology industry.

Steve Jobs - Apple - Wikipedia

Steve's Stanford commencement speech which he talks about life and how he started Apple and Pixar Animation.

Eric Schmidt - Google - Wikipedia

Eric Schmidt speaks at the IBM Business Partners Leadership Conference on May 1, 2008. Eric's presentation is followed by a conversation with IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano.

Jack Ma - Alibaba.com - wikipedia

Jack Ma, the CEO of Alibaba.com one of the world's leading B2B e-commerce companies, encourages people to register, patronize and to be connected with million of buyers and suppliers from around the world every day.

Paul S. Otellini - Intel - Wikipedia

Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, presents "Innovation: Right on Time".

Ivan Seidenberg - Verizon - Wikipedia

Ivan talks about communications technologies being the disruptive force in the 21st century economy.

John Chambers - Cisco - Wikipedia

A brief presentation on collaborating of people and organization demonstrating Cisco's telepresence technology.

Larry Ellison - Oracle - Wikipedia

Highlights from Larry's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2007.

Sam Palmisano - IBM - Wikipedia

Sam speaks about the 'Blue Business Platform' at IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference in 2008.

Bob Kotick - Activision - Wikipedia

Interview with Bob about the merger with Blizzard and one their most successful online games, Warcraft.

Bill Gates - Microsoft - Wikipedia

Bill Gates, in which he talks about some of the features found in Windows Vista.

Carol Bartz - Yahoo - Wikipedia

An interview with Carol Bartz who at the time was CEO of Autodesk. In this wide-ranging exchange, Bartz and Michael Malone discusses her journey from a small farm town in Wisconsin to the pinnacle of success in high-tech, and the challenges of being a woman executive.