PickVidsBest Tech pioneers & interviews Videos
The 369 Tech pioneers & interviews videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 91 intermediate, 272 for a general viewer, and 6 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an interview. What they share is that the guest explains a past choice instead of reciting a glossary. Channels you will keep seeing include Lex Fridman, Computer History Museum, PowerfulJRE.
Steve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11)
Steve Jobs presents Apple's proposal for a new campus to the Cupertino City Council in June 2011, answering council members' questions about the plan.
reddit.com Interviews Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig answers the top questions submitted by reddit users in a 27-minute interview.
Steve Jobs in 2010, at D8 Conference (Full Video)
The full 2010 D8 conference interview of Steve Jobs by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You!
A one-minute clip of Linus Torvalds telling Nvidia "fuck you" over its lack of support for Linux and open source.
The Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert
A very long livestream in which Ron Gilbert and Frank Cifaldi look at the making of The Secret of Monkey Island, including its SCUMM source code, which they edit and recompile live.
Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419
Lex Fridman interviews OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about GPT-4, GPT-5, Sora, the OpenAI board saga, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, power and AGI.
Barack Obama - Computer Science Question
A one-minute clip from Barack Obama's 2008 Google visit in which Eric Schmidt asks him the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers.
Steve Balmer on KLOCs
A one-minute clip of Steve Ballmer explaining IBM's obsession with counting thousands of lines of code (KLOCs) as a measure of programmers.
E3 12: John Carmack's VR Presentation
A Gamereactor interview at E3 2012 with John Carmack, who shows his lag-free head-mounted display running DOOM 3 BFG Edition.
Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Andrej Karpathy on why reinforcement learning is flawed, why AGI may blend into steady GDP growth, why self-driving took so long, and the future of education.
Why We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON)
A short video built around Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON, saying JavaScript is a flawed language and that developers should eventually move on from it.
Oral History of Steve Naroff Part 1, Session 1
Computer History Museum oral history of Steve Naroff, an engineer at Stepstone, NeXT and Apple who worked on Objective-C.
BILL GATES on 'the internet' in 1995 | David LETTERMAN
A short clip of Bill Gates appearing on David Letterman's show in 1995 trying to explain the value of the internet.
Where's Google going next? | Larry Page
A TED2014 interview in which Charlie Rose talks with Google CEO Larry Page about the company's long-term vision, including balloons for internet access and the DeepMind acquisition.
Steve Jobs talks about what he saw and he missed at Xerox PARC
A one-minute clip from the 1995 Steve Jobs interview in which he describes what he saw at Xerox PARC and what he missed.
The Mind Behind Linux | Linus Torvalds | TED
TED curator Chris Anderson interviews Linus Torvalds about his personality, his engineer's pragmatism, and the creation of Linux and Git.
I Interviewed The Creator Of LLVM, Clang, Swift, and Mojo
ThePrimeagen interviews Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Clang, Swift and Mojo, with TJ DeVries, in a long live-streamed conversation.
Steve Jobs' original vision for iOS web apps, WWDC 2007
A two-minute clip of Steve Jobs at WWDC 2007 introducing the plan for iPhone third-party apps as web apps built on Safari and Ajax.
Steve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone
A one-minute clip of Steve Ballmer laughing at the original iPhone and dismissing its price and appeal.
Steve Jobs The Lost Interview
A roughly 72-minute interview with Steve Jobs, believed to come from the 1995 interviews made for the Triumph of the Nerds documentary.
Alan Kay on Linux
A one-minute clip of Alan Kay giving his blunt critique of Linux and the Unix approach.
Murray Gell-Mann talks about Richard Feynman
In a short interview clip, physicist Murray Gell-Mann talks about working alongside Richard Feynman at Caltech.
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.
Tim Cook, Sir Jony Ive KBE, and Laurene Powell Jobs | Full Interview | Code 2022
Kara Swisher interviews Apple CEO Tim Cook, designer Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs at the 2022 Code Conference.