Video interviews: Stars of the book, caught on camera

Paul meets Robert Loch

Robert Loch - serial entrepreneur, uber-networker, decadent event organiser and now in-pub-on-site interviewee. We met up in Soho’s Dog and Duck pub for a chat over some Sam Smith’s beer to discuss matters of great importance. Matters like his latest venture, his world famous party flat and hot tub, his passionate love for Channel 4 News tech correspondent Benjamin Cohen and - most importantly of all - just exactly how much of a twat he thinks I am… [Watch the interview]

Paul meets Mike ‘TechCrunch UK/Eire’ Butcher

TechCrunch UK/Ireland editor Mike Butcher has been covering the web scene since Mark Zuckerberg was still in short trousers. Ever ahead of the curve, he dedicated an entire page on his website to attacking me, before it was considered fashionable to do so. I caught up with Mike in a 300-year-old London pub to talk about the real story behind the TechCrunch UK blog fight, the importance of openness, Jason Calacanis and the giving of surnames to bulldogs, the grey goo of misfortune and how - after everything - he still thinks I’m a “loony”.… [Watch the interview]

Paul meets Richard ‘Moo.com’ Moross

Another day, another dot commer and star of The Book agrees to face my razor-like interviewing style. Today’s subject is none other than Richard Moross, CEO of Moo.com and - by any measure you care to use - the tallest man in technology. We talked about printing, design, fights with girls in New York, drinking Perfect Manhattans by the pool and how, once he went black, he never went back… [Watch the interview]

Paul meets Rebecca ‘RFW&N’ Lewis

Interview number two, and today it’s the turn of Rebecca Lewis, my publicist at Orion and better known to readers of this blog as RFW&N. I had originally planned to ask her about whether she thought I’d misrepresented the publishing industry in The Book, how one publicises a book and all manner of other book-related things. Unfortunately, though, Rebecca had other ideas… [Watch the interview]

Paul meets Zoe ‘Girl With A One Track Mind’ Margolis

For the first in my soon-to-be critically acclaimed series of video interview, I sat down with formerly pseudonymous sex blogger, turned journalist, turned soon-to-be New Yorker, turned star of the Book Zoe Margolis. Here’s what happened…[Watch the interview]

Michael Smith interviews Paul

When I asked Michael Smith, founder of Mindcandy, if I could interview him as a Book Extra, he enthusiastically agreed. On two conditions. One, that he could actually read the book and two, that he could interview me first. I promise it wasn’t my idea… [Watch the interview]