PickVidsBest Startups & entrepreneurship Videos
The 121 Startups & entrepreneurship videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 18 introductory, 8 intermediate, 95 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Y Combinator, This Week in Startups, startupschool.
EEVblog #1001 - uBeam Ultrasonic Wireless Charging DEBUNKED!
Dave Jones of EEVblog debunks the uBeam ultrasonic wireless phone charging technology and explains why it is not practical.
Elon Musk on the Early Days of Tesla: Interview Part 1
A long interview with Elon Musk at Gigafactory Texas on Tesla's early days, covering why electric vehicles, who founded Tesla, founder departures, Roadster engineering and early funding.
Silicon Valley No Revenue | Radio On Internet
A short clip from the show Silicon Valley in which the Pied Piper team meets a money guy who offers advice about having no revenue.
Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim
An Adult Swim infomercial parody for Smart Pipe, a fictional startup that turns toilet waste into data and social connectivity.
Silicon Valley S01E07 Proof of Concept1
A two-minute clip from Silicon Valley season 1, episode 7 featuring the human heater idea that is rejected in a startup competition scene.
Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs
Guy Kawasaki's UC Berkeley Haas talk on the top ten mistakes entrepreneurs make, covering a startup from inception to exit.
Vibe Coding Is The Future
A Y Combinator video on vibe coding, the term Andrej Karpathy coined for letting LLMs write code.
Waterseer -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t debunks the Waterseer, a crowdfunded device that claims to condense drinking water from the air using cool ground.
Steve Jobs : Great idea doesn't always translates into great product
A six-minute excerpt from Steve Jobs' 1995 Lost Interview on why a great idea does not automatically become a great product.
uBeam.flv
A two-minute 2011 clip of an early uBeam wireless power demo.
Sam Altman in conversation with StrictlyVC
A 2019 extended interview in which Connie Loizos talks with Sam Altman about his work, OpenAI's capped-profit structure, its mission toward safe artificial general intelligence, and criticisms the organization faces.
Magic Whiteboard - Dragons Den Winners - The Original & Best
Neil and Laura Westwood pitch their Magic Whiteboard, reusable static-cling whiteboard sheets, to the investors on the BBC's Dragons' Den and win 100,000 pounds of investment.
The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed | Bill Gross | TED
Bill Gross, who has founded and incubated many start-ups, ranked hundreds of companies on five factors.
Tesla's Founders On Elon Musk And The Early Days
CNBC interview with Tesla founders Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning about starting the company in 2003, the battery idea, the Roadster, and Elon Musk's role.
Anthony Levandowski on lessons learned at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI
A TechCrunch interview with Anthony Levandowski about his new startup Pronto.ai and autonomous vehicles, after the Uber and Waymo lawsuit.
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes: Firing Back At Doubters | Mad Money | CNBC
A 2015 CNBC Mad Money interview in which Jim Cramer gives Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes a platform to answer accusations about her company after critical press coverage.
Clayton Christensen: Disruptive innovation
Clayton Christensen explains his theory of disruptive innovation at Oxford's Said Business School, using examples from steel, Toyota, Sony, Walmart and Godrej.
Peter Thiel on being a contrarian
Jason Calacanis interviews Peter Thiel at LAUNCH Festival 2015 about contrarian thinking, investing, and building companies such as PayPal, Palantir and Facebook.
Soylent: How I Stopped Eating for 30 Days
A Motherboard documentary in which a reporter lives on nothing but Soylent for 30 days after founder Rob Rhinehart's own experiment.
South Park Underpants Gnomes Profit Plan
The South Park clip in which underpants gnomes explain their three-phase business plan: collect underpants, then a question mark, then profit.
How to be a technology innovator: Meredith Perry at TEDxNashville
A TEDxNashville talk by uBeam founder Meredith Perry about becoming a technology innovator and her plan for wireless charging of phones.
Zero Mass Water -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t argues that Zero Mass Water's solar-powered atmospheric water generator is essentially a dehumidifier with solar panels.
Memrise Team
A two-minute promotional video introducing the team at Memrise, a language-learning company, as part of their recruiting page.
NYC DOESN'T KNOW ITS OWN LAWS!
Louis Rossmann recounts calling NYC's Department of Consumer Affairs after his repair business was fined, only to find the agency staff could not explain what the law required.